[Wikitech-l] RE: reating references as first class objects in wiki

Amruta, There seem to be a couple proposed projects already addressing this issue, the most prominent being Wikicite: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite There is also a proposal for storing relational data entered through a wiki called Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata I think it would be best to try and use these projects as foundations for any further work with regard to references/citations. Thanks. > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:54:38 -0400 > From: Amruta Lonkar <gtg808u(a)mail.gatech.edu> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] treating references as first > class objects in > wiki > To: wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <1125669278.4318599ecab56(a)webmail.mail.gatech.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > in addition to the existing talk,, discussion and > history pages. In addition > each reference on the reference page will have its > own page and willl funciton > same as an article in a wiki with its own talk page. > Thus the wiki might be > effectivelu used by students in writing papers. > > I have just started going through the mediawiki code > and i wanted to know what > would be a good starting point to work on this kind > of a project. I am getting > very confused with the actual flow of the code. I > will be creating a separate > database for the references so i need to unerstand > the flow. > > -- > Thanks, > Amruta > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs