I think a very important issue here is whether to add cites to
articles that we don't know what sources were used.
If I wrote the entire text of [[Japanese language]] (which I didn't,
this is just an example), without a cite, it would be a very horrible
thing in my mind if somebody added a cite for a book I'd never even
heard of. It's simply not accurate, and in some cases the book may not
even be a good resource.
Whenever somebody adds a random cite to an article written mostly or
entirely by me, I remove it unless I actually DID use that source.
It's very irritating to have people doing that, almost like bees, who
while they make honey also tend to annoy people.
Mark
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:15:16 -0500, Stirling Newberry
<stirling.newberry(a)xigenics.net> wrote:
On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Sj wrote (about Wikicite):
I was wary of this idea at first, but after
talking to Stirling about
it last week, I am very enthusiastic. Two librarians I have talked to
in Boston seem to think it's a good idea, also.
As in "if you cook, we will eat", or the other way around?
Stirling Newbury wrote:
> together in a live manner, which allows for
the creation of
> bibliographic apparatus. The Library of Congress is working on such a
> project for its purposes, it is the purpose of this project to create
> an open wiki system which will allow:
Who are these people at LoC? Does their project have a name?
Bibliographic enhancement, there is a link on the page.
> I think the best way is to digitize every book and give each page a
> URL, like this,
http://runeberg.org/pictswed/0219.html
Where the material is in Wikisource this is great, but you still need
the card for context and references.
> We already know how to handle URLs, and it's only a matter of time
> until we have scanned every book and newspaper there is. I would
> guess the task will be completed within the next 50 years. Most of us
> will be around to see it.
> So, I have a proposed solution and a
time table. What's your time
> table?
Links to sources don't create citation indexes, they don't make citing
easier and they don't allow us to annotate sources - it also assumes
that a great deal of material will be released into the public domain
that is not currently. I feel that we can have a first pass wikicite
ready to be used in wikipedia and wikitionary articles within a year
based on ISBN numbers for books and ISSN numbers for journals.
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