On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > phoebe ayers wrote: >> interesting quick article about the trials and tribulations of other >> open access encyclopedia projects: >> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/14/encyclopedias >> > In another direction, I'm interested in the issues we have in citing > online reference works. > > (a) We do want permalinks if possible and don't want link rot. It seems > that such works generally do not provide permalinks. > > (b) There is the general {{cite web}} template, but it is cumbersome. > There is an "access date" field but that can only be a compromise > solution, if there is no permalink. > > (c) For older works that are now in the public domain, the "correct" > solution is to place the material in Wikisource, support it with proof > reading and bibliographic details (including author information) over > there, and link to it via interwiki rather than URL. That is, Wikisource > should be the repository used by default for older material such as > Britannica 1911. We are, though, a long way from even linking to > existing articles there in preference to external links. > > (d) Generally, instead of {{cite web}}, each commonly-used external > reference cited should have a dedicated template for linking. Unlike > some other areas, the drive for common standards seems not to have taken > off here.
Bumping this because it's been sitting unread in my inbox for ages, and I think there are interesting things said here that should be discussed. Er, how about: how much do people here use wikisource. I think it is a great resource that gets under-used. Or pick up one of the point Charles made above, for example, how to motivate and start a drive for standards in citing common external references (I'm not sure if Charles means templates to wikisource, templates to other online stuff, or templates producing a formatted reference to a book). Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l