To cite a book just add the ISBN and page number. Leave it at that; or perhaps you could devise a bot that follows up, converting ISBN + page number into a full-blown reference. On 26 Jan 2016 4:20 pm, "Andrea Zanni" <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > - It is really laborious to add references. Many references are a > book a > > publication and I give you one example of a book [1]. It takes MUCH > more > > time to add a source than it is to add a statement. The book, the > > authors > > they need sources in their own right.. > > > > > Also, Wikidata has not found a way yet to work with books. > Yes, it's relatively easy to create an item for a recent book and populate > it with a few statements relatively to the main metadata (author, year of > publishing, publisher). > > What we don't have is a way to *consistently* work with books (which have > often many translations and editions). We cannot import (yet) library > catalogs in wikidata[1]. We don't even have a consistent way to link > Wikidata to Wikisource (index pages, ns0 pages). > > I think this is quite relevant for the reference issue. > > Aubrey > > > [1] there is an ongoing project with the National Library of Florence, in > Italy. We now have a script to import records in WIkibase, and will do on a > local one. Then we will approach Wikidata. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
