Hey all, a conversation that happened on Twitter the other day suggests that we're not doing a good enough job at structuring documentation on wiki.
While I think the subpages of [[m:WikiCite]] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> are fairly well organized, [[WD:WikiProject Source]] <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/WD:WikiProject Source> badly needs some love. In particular: - the WikiProject's *landing page* contains a lot of unstructured and fairly outdated information: some of this information could be moved to subpages and we could use a navigation template like other WikiProjects do <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Commons>. - *data modeling proposals* for different types of works are currently only captured via a template (Template:Bibliographical_properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Bibliographical_properties>) or buried on the WP's talk page: we should have a dedicated page to host data models, ideally a big table listing and annotating properties for different types of works, as well as their mappings to existing bibliographic models. - other important proposals (such as the use <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Source_MetaData#Adding_references_to_uses_of_cites_.28P2860.29> of *stated in* (P248) to represent *provenance of citation data* for statements using *cites *(P2860) or the documentation of specific *data import strategies* (the Zika corpus, the OA review literature, PMCID references in enwiki) are similarly buried in the talk page and hard to find: this may raise a few eyebrows in the Wikidata community if we don't make it clear how and why this data is being imported or represented. If someone on this list is willing to spend some time and help with some documentation/design effort, it would be tremendously useful, especially to people who are not yet regularly following WikiCite and WP:Source Metadata: we need to create an inclusive environment and readability/navigability for newbies is the first important step. Dario
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