[Wikipedia-l] Central bibliography

[Akash Mehta]

I agree that WikiData is a good idea, but what will it take for the
developers to implement this? Are wikitech-l subscribers subscribed to
wikipedia-l as well?

On 9/5/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lars Aronsson wrote:
> > Francis Tyers wrote:
> >
> >
> >> In fact, this brings up an interesting point, having <book> and
> >> <article> for specifics (they tend to be long), and then having
> >> <ref> for miscellaneous stuff.
> >>
> >
> > When anybody says we "have to" introduce completely new markup or
> > we "have to" wait for Wikidata to be implemented, then I know it's
> > just an excuse for doing nothing.
> >
> Hoi,
> Based on what ? WiktionaryZ is developing nicely, it is based on
> Wikidata. Versioning is expected to make it's first apearance (Erik
> willing) this week. This hardly qualifies as nothing happening. As to
> Wikiauthors, there has been some deep thinking about what it needs to do
> by people who met IRL and the chances of something happening in this
> space is better than 89%.
> > Suppose you define a way to identify a pre-defined reference, .....
> For me there is little reason to suppose anything... Wikidata rocks.
>
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
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