[Wikipedia-l] Central bibliography

[Jacky PB]

If you want to do this, you should first take a look
at [[:en:bibtex]]. This is what scientists use to
write papers/books, and they have experience with
handling large databases. The main idea is that you
need some form of reference. Neither the title, nor
the ISBN are good enough.

If interested, I can point you in this direction.

Yours,
Dpotop1

--- Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:

> I think Wikipedia really needs a central
> bibliography,
> because there are many books who are used in more
> than
> one article, some in dozens or even more.
> 
> Currently, a book reference is done this way:
> 
> <ref>[[Istvan Vasary]] (2005) ''Cumans and Tatars'',
> [[Cambridge University Press]]. ISBN 123546958695,
> page 22</ref>
> 
> with a central bibliography, it would be like this;
> 
> <book n="Cumans and Tatars" p="22"/>
> 
> and the book database would fill in the details in
> the
> page displayed to the viewer.
> 
> I suggest that we use the name instead of the ISBN,
> because
> it can be seen more clearly in the text, when
> reading the
> wiki-text. Also, there are many books (especially
> older
> books, but not only), which have no ISBN number and
> some
> which have many different editions with different
> ISBNs.
> 
> There is still the problem with two books with the
> same title,
> in which case we need to add the author, too, for
> disambiguation,
> but I think this problem is less on the kind of
> books we use for
> reference. Shorter titles are used especially for
> fiction.
> 
> There could be some benefits for having a central
> bibliography,
> other than not having to copy-paste the publishing
> house/ISBN,
> like knowing which articles refer to a certain book.
> 
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