On 11/28/08, THURNER rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some sites to cite an article about medical visualization [2]. when > looking at it i noticed: > * that it is published in a cc-2.5 licensed journal > * that there is a possibility to enter links from facebook, stumble upon, > ... > * that there is no link to do make a reference in wiki* > > would it make sense that a wikimedia page allows referencing such an > article? the functions of such a page could be: > * enter it in a (not yet existing) references library (bibtex or whatever) > * add it to a portal talk page selected by the user (like medicine) > * add it to project selected by the user (like wpedia, wversity, ...) > > imo the advantages would be that on one hand quality may rise through > better citations, on the other hand having a citation library where > researchers in future want to be and need to be.
It would be easy use javascript to fill out a {{cite news}} template or whatever based on the url parameters. However the intersection of "sites we want to newcomers to easily link to" and "sites which take us seriously enough to provide a url for doing so" might be smaller than we'd hope. —C.W. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l