On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Basically no >> > If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you >> > have to go hunting for (author). >> > You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which >> > have a standard format. >> >> >> Sounds like something we could add really quite a lot of special cases >> to. I wonder how many we would need to have decent coverage in >> practice. Has anyone done a survey of what sources we actually use in >> references? The long tail will be *huge*, but does the en:wp community >> have any favourites? >> >> >> - d. > > > I have created a tool called WikiPapers that my lab has used for several > years that does something similar to this. It is designed around scientific > papers. It allows you to highlight the title of an article on any web page > and then click it a bookmarklet and it will use various APIs on the web to > get the associated metadata and add it to your wiki. It can optionally pass > the URL to one of many URL scrapers such as Connotea and CiteULike. I am > currently refactoring the code for use in a new project called WikiScholar. > The old code supports PubMed, Google Scholar, Connotea and CiteULike, > whereas the new code only supports PubMed right now. The new code, however, > makes it much simpler to add new importers with its class-based > infrastructure. > > If anyone is interested in this project and can code in Python or PHP > please let me know. I am actively developing it now. I'm interested in folks > who would like to dedicate some time to writing importers for specific APIs. > > Cheers, > Brian > > PS: The Google Code url is: http://code.google.com/p/wikipapers/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
