[Wikipedia-l] Re: Bibliography

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Jan 9 23:48:06 UTC 2005


Karl Eichwalder wrote:

>Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> writes:
>  
>
>>From the beginning one of the purposes of the "Author" pages in 
>>Wikisource has been bibliographic.
>>    
>>
>I consider Wikisource as superfluous.  We should join forces with the
>"Project Gutenberg" (that's what I do).
>
That can wait until Project Gutenberg includes Wiki links.

>Please, re-read this thread.  Author pages are not good enough.  We need
>a database system that you can query with well define protocols like
>[[de:Z39.50]]
>
And what does [[de:Z39.50]] mean?  Users, will be most comfortable with 
plain language categories.  Although formal classification systems have 
their place, they are best in conjunction with plain language references.

Ec




More information about the Wikipedia-l mailing list