Jan_Dittrich added a comment.
A high-level-ish take on this:
Currently many items have no citation and while it would be nice to have one for every item, it seems that people focus on the most pressing first. As I got told in user research interviews e.g. "date of death" should always be sourced,
Sjoerddebruin added a comment.
It would indeed be better than adding something to just a single item!TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139583EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/To: SjoerddebruinCc: Sjoerddebruin, JEumerus, Slowking4, Izno,
Slowking4 added a comment.
you need a process and team to add citations, not merely grow the "citation needed" backlog.
could we have a bot provide references to viaf
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SourcererBot
could we have a game to add reference statements
https://www.wik
Izno added a comment.
The easy solution is simply to add https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7106262 or another item as a reference.TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139583EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/To: IznoCc: Izno, Thryduulf, T.seppel
ChristianKl added a comment.
To brainstorm:
There could be a button right next to "add citation" with the title "request citation".
That button could bring up a dialog.
That dialog asks provides choices:
① This conflicts with what I believe to be true.
② This statement conflicts with source X.
③ T
Thryduulf added a comment.
If this feature is added, removing an item that has been flagged as needing a citation should generate an edit summary that notes a citation was requested.TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139583EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel
