[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikicite project pages (english versions only so far)

Thu Feb 10 19:44:38 UTC 2005

On Feb 10, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> Stirling Newberry <stirling.newberry at xigenics.net> writes:
>
>> In fact, one of the seeds for wikicite should be the wikisource
>> database.
>
> wikicite is superflous.  Use technology that is state of the art, you
> will be able to extract interesting snippets from a document or a
> document system (XML with XPath resp. XPointer).  Zebra (idzebra) is
> such an iplementation (cf. indexdata.dk).
>

Which works only in a world without copyright and with everyone having 
a 7 second attention span. I am willing to believe the second will 
happen in my lifetime, but not the first.