http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikicite
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite
A fact is only as reliable as the ability to source that fact, and the
ability to weigh carefully that source. Wikipedia's community, in an
effort to expand its useful sphere of users, increase its reliability,
usability and credibility has held several related discussions on
improving the scholarly apparatus of wikipedia. The need to cite
sources is now in the community standard's list, the desire to upgrade
the citation of articles is the subject of the Fact and Reference
Project, and the Encyclopediac Standards project has discussed
automatic, or at least software assisted citations. There has also been
a coding effort to support footnoting.
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Need for Live Data
These projects, need, not only to be joined together, but to be joined
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:
1. Software assisted citation. To make it easier for editors to cite,
and to make citations comprehensive to include a link to an author
article, the book's card and the date as a wikilink.
2. Card catalogs which will allow users to annotate the work, and to
link to other works, which could include later editions, bibliography
and textual apparatus. To make the card catalog live data, rather than
dead data.
3. Support a footnote system in wikimedia. To improve the ability to
assess credibility and standards compliance of articles and their
information.