https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20441
Summary: using ISBN, DOI, URI, ... in references (ref element)
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Currently, it is quite cumbersome to use references. A reference has to be
entered as follows:
:This is a sentence.<nowiki><ref>Miller (2005): Is Wikipedia an encylopedia?
Berlin, New York. p. 5. ISBN 1234567890</ref></nowiki>
Why so cumbersome, if it could be much easier? If I enter the ISBN number in
any event, why not using only the ISBN as follows:
:This is a sentence.<nowiki><ref isbn="1234567890" p="5" /></nowiki>
or better (because XML)
:<nowiki><ref isbn="1234567890" p="5">This is a sentence.</ref></nowiki>
This would lead to the same reference, but the source code is slim and only the
system would have to look up the author, title ... of the book.
The same would work with papers from journals using DOI:
:<nowiki><ref doi="1234567890" p="5">This is a sentence.</ref></nowiki>
instead of:
:This is a sentence.<nowiki><ref>Miller, Smith, Black (2009): The evolution of
Wikipedia. In: International Journal of Wikipedia Research. Vol. 7, No. 3, p.
5. doi=1234567890</ref></nowiki>
Also web sources would work:
:<nowiki><ref href="http://www....com/abc.pdf";>This is a
sentence.</ref></nowiki>
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