The Visual editor has a whole UI team behind it, who've been working on it for years. Yes, citations are only a small part of it, but there is nothing equivalent in WMF or German chapter for Wikidata, AFAIK. The Wikidata UI is improved constantly, but I don't think there is anyone, let alone a whole team, developing massive new UI features.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:14 PM Brill Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > These are great, important suggestions. But like with the library science > resources, it seems like Wikidata is again trying to re-invent an existing > wheel. Why are the existing tools in Wikipedia not being migrated and/or > pathway'd into Wikidata? The stripping of Wikipedia citations to push it to > Wikidata often / always (?) denudes the information of what is a very > rigorous requirement on Wiki. > > I love the Citoid option, or whatever has been deployed for the Wiki > Markup editor when you put an ISBN number, OCLC number, or NYTimes URL into > the lookups there. There is no interchangeability with Wikidata though? > > #WikiCite :-) > > Agree on the {{citation needed}} button, Finn! ha! > > - Erika > > > *Erika Herzog* > Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>* > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Magnus Manske < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> While the proposal of all statements requiring citation is obviously >> overshooting, I believe we all agree that more/better citations improve >> Wikidata. >> One component here would be a social one, namely that it first becomes >> good practice, then the default, to cite statements. >> For that, improved technology and new approaches are required. >> Suggestions include: >> * Open a blank reference box when adding a statement in the default >> editor, thus subtly prompting a reference >> * Show a "smart field" for reference adding, e.g. just paste a URL, and >> it registers it's an URL, suggests a title from the page at the URL, adds >> access date, suggests other data that can be inferred from the URL or the >> linked page, shows likely other fields (e.g. "author" or such) for easy >> fill-in >> * Automatically add references for statements via external IDs. I have a >> bot that does that to some degree, but it could use productizing >> * Tools to "migrate" Wikipedia references to the actual sources. (Again, >> I have some, but...) >> * "Reference mode", to quickly add references to statements. (I have a >> drag'n'drop script, but that breaks on every Wikidata UI update) >> * A list of items/statements that are in "priority need" for referencing. >> For example, death dates of the recently deceased should be simple, while >> they are still in the news. >> * Dedicated drives to complete a "set" (e.g. all women chemists), that >> is, have all statements references in those items >> * Special watchlist for new statements without reference, especially on >> otherwise "completely referenced" items >> >> Magnus >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:56 PM Brill Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> *blanket, not blanked... >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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