Thanks for those links, John. I agree that a separate project is needed to have a central source that all language versions of all projects can reference. The citations version of Commons.
I like the French model of using "Article name (Authors)" as a key. Perhaps with "Article name (Authors, Year)" if needed to disambiguate. This shares a design principle with the move away from CamelCase to freeform article titles: one should be able to insert an article name into a natural sentence, and link the appropriate section of the sentence, and have it take you to the appropriate article. To DGG's question: in the long run, the scope of "all cited works" can be captured in such a project, at least for the works cited on a wiki Project -- anyone making a new citation would either find it already in the project or would add it. Whether this covers all works cited by active academics of scholars depends on how effectively we draw them into our community and help them see where an extra minute of work on their part will help thousands of their readers, reviewers, and reusers. SJ. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:13 AM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: >>.. >> Do anyone knows anything about the French discussions on the introduction of >> the 'Reference' namespace? Should we just implement the French system on the >> English Wikipedia and we are there? > > This was discussed on en.wp in late 2007... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_14#Is_there_a_centralized_bibliographic_database_for_wikipedia.3F_Is_there_a_way_to_make_citations_just_by_giving_an_universal_ID_instead_of_copying_a_full_citation_template.3F > > The proposal on fr.wp in early 2006: > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Prise_de_d%C3%A9cision/Espace_r%C3%A9f%C3%A9rence > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
