[Wikipedia-l] Lists of book references and external links

[Martin A. Walker]

>David Gerard:
>there isn't a central bibliographical reference
>base, as some have mooted. If you can code something that will both
>work and be sensibly usable by casual editors, I suspect it would be
>most welcomed ...

Take a look at the Wikicat/Wikicite idea on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat

I was told recently that most of the Wikicite code has been written.

For the longer term.....at Wikimania we discussed a detailed fact-checking
process, possibly using Wikicite, and this would use a separate list of
sources, so a user who wants to check a fact in a validated article could
find the source for every fact...but that's at least 2 years away, I'd
say.  I understand that Wikicite/Wikicat would support such a feature. 
See the link below for more detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pushing_to_validation

Martin A. Walker (User:Walkerma)