Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel Klein
I second the motion to move this discussion to the wikiresearch-l list, since two threads have diverged...SJ On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Neil Harris wrote: >> On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola Smolenski wrote: >>> Дана Monday 19 July 2010

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-23 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Neil Harris wrote: > On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola Smolenski wrote: >> Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа: >> >>> Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own >>> ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especial

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-22 Thread Neil Harris
On 22/07/10 12:04, Neil Harris wrote: > On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > >> Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа: >> >> >>> Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own >>> ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especial

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-22 Thread Neil Harris
On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа: > >> Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own >> ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especially interested in >> the potential benefits to the WMF p

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-21 Thread David Goodman
This example illustrates some of the problems. If the work is available in other languages, the non-Serbian WPs would want to cite the translation in their language. If the book is being cited from an online excerpt, at least the enWP would require that this be specified. And if different people ci

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-21 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа: > Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own > ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especially interested in > the potential benefits to the WMF projects that you see, and to hear your > thoughts on t

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Brian J Mingus, 19/07/2010 22:20: > The basic idea is a centralized wiki that contains citation information that > other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something like a > {{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the citation, > the author, the book etc..

[Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

2010-07-19 Thread Brian J Mingus
I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on brainstorming a proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations, a WikiCite so to speak, if that is not the eventual name. My plan is to continue to discuss with folks who are knowledgeable and interested in such a p