WikiCite (3)
WikiCite | |
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Status of the proposal | |
Status | under discussion |
Details of the proposal | |
Project description | database of citations, supporting general knowledge profiling and Wikipedia fact-checking |
Is it a multilingual wiki? | yes |
Potential number of languages | many |
Proposed tagline | sum of all sources |
Proposed URL | |
Technical requirements | |
New features to require | WikiCite currently runs in Wikidata, but breaks the limits of Wikidata as described in The Signpost. |
Development wiki | |
Interested participants | |
WikiCite already exists and has thousands of Wikimedia editors and many more university partners. | |
Seeking signatures of support for this!
WikiCite is many things including
- the Wikidata-based citation graph organized at d:Wikidata:WikiCite
- the conference series organized at WikiCite
- the Wikimedia solution to discovering publications at Scholia
- a citation database for Wikipedia with Shared Citations
Proposed by
[edit]The WikiCite concept may be the most commonly proposed idea for a Wikimedia project that editors repeatedly discover. At minimum, a hundred people could share founder credit, but probably founder credit should go to all supporters at the time of the project's establishment.
- Wikicite (2006 proposal)
- Wikicite (metadata proposal) (2011)
- WikiScholar (2013)
- d:Wikidata:WikiCite (2014)
- WikiCite/Shared_Citations (2020)
Alternative names
[edit]WikiCite is the most popular name after years of discussion.
Other terms could be references, sources, knowledge, metadata, cataloging, or library.
Related projects/proposals
[edit]WikiCite currently runs on Wikidata, but has grown so large that Wikidata has broken because of its size. For an overview, consider
- 2024 "Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure", The Signpost
These texts give perspectives on how people use WikiCite and why WikiCite breaks Wikidata.
- 2018 WikiCite Roadmap 2018
- 2019 WikiProject Limits of Wikidata
- 2021 Wikidata Scholarly Articles Subgraph Analysis
- 2021 Blazegraph failure playbook
- 2021 WikiCite panel discussion (WikidataCon 2021 recording) (video)
- 2023 WikiCite Roadmap 2023
- 2024 Wikidata Query Service Graph Split
Domain names
[edit]Mailing list links
[edit]- WikiCite on Telegram; 212 users as of October 2024
Demos
[edit]Readers should try the examples in Scholia, which profiles WikiCite content.
On Wikidata consider WikiProject Clinical Trials, which profiles medical research, drugs, researchers, and institutes.
For Wikimedia editors, the most popular tool is the Author Disambiguator
Other projects which use the same data include
People interested
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- Bluerasberry (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:03, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- OhanaUnitedTalk page 14:31, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- Mozucat (talk) 19:19, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- Peaceray (talk) 13:22, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- carlinmack (talk) 12:40, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- Zanahary (talk) 20:06, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Superraptor123 (talk) 20:07, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ahc84 (talk) 20:08, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sincerely, ZhaoFJx(T) 21:16, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Kosboot (talk) 20:32, 4 November 2024 (UTC)