Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-04 Thread Lodewijk
the problem is all projects use a different format :) Maybe it is worth the effort to investigate if we can come to a single format... at least on the input side. Lodewijk 2014-08-04 3:43 GMT+02:00 Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm: Does the same apply to other sister projects? It could make

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-04 Thread Liam Wyatt
Lodewijk: Yes indeed. The citation/footnote coding format for different language editions of Wikipedia is not the same, not to mention the other Wikimedia projects. I wonder if this is something that Wikidata could (eventually) handle? I have been hoping that one day all books (at least those with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-04 Thread
On 04/08/2014, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: ... I wonder if this is something that Wikidata could (eventually) handle? I have been hoping that one day all books (at least those with ISBNs) could have a Wikidata entry. This would mean that all of the bibliographic There is no point in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 4 August 2014 08:18, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: the problem is all projects use a different format :) Maybe it is worth the effort to investigate if we can come to a single format... at least on the input side. I believe such is being discussed, as part of the wider

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 4 August 2014 11:15, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if this is something that Wikidata could (eventually) handle? I have a brain-dump about how this might work, in my user pace at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/Citations_-_the_future For me, one of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 4 August 2014 11:43, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: The current editing interface on the English Wikipedia has the cite tool which effectively does the same thing if you put in the ISBN I find that often rimes out, sadly. (It works well with Google books URLs, though.) -- Andy Mabbett

[Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
Google Scholar search results each have a cite link, which generates citation text to copy-and-paste in three formats (MLA, APA, Chicago). Is there someone at Google we can talk to, to get Wikipedia's citation format included? For English-language users (or results), the {{Cite journal}}

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Liangent
Hmm, maybe another option is to accept BibTeX format on our side, possibly via a Lua module? -Liangent On Aug 4, 2014 1:15 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Google Scholar search results each have a cite link, which generates citation text to copy-and-paste in three formats

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Luis Villa
Possibly relevant as an alternative solution to the problem: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid I suspect that Google would be reluctant to add a Wikimedia citation format, because there is no one Wikimedia citation format. (Happy to be corrected on that if I'm wrong, though.) Luis On Sun,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 3 August 2014 19:01, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: I suspect that Google would be reluctant to add a Wikimedia citation format Trove, the Australian National Library's newspaper archive, are happy to do so. because there is no one Wikimedia citation format. (Happy to be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Luis Villa
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 3 August 2014 19:01, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: I suspect that Google would be reluctant to add a Wikimedia citation format Trove, the Australian National Library's newspaper archive, are happy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Jan Ainali
Google Scholar seem to do very well on the Citoid tests: http://zotero-translator-tests.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/testTranslators.html#date=2014-07-30browser=cversion=4.0.SOURCE.9219100 Just make sure to get that thing running and we will have a more robust solution to ask potential

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 3 August 2014 20:44, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: because there is no one Wikimedia citation format. (Happy to be corrected on that if I'm wrong, though.) There isn't, hence I suggested the most suitable for scholarly citations in English. Both Google and Wikimedia claim to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Gryllida
Does the same apply to other sister projects? It could make sense to make such request for all... On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, at 03:14, Andy Mabbett wrote: Google Scholar search results each have a cite link, which generates citation text to copy-and-paste in three formats (MLA, APA, Chicago). Is