On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:57 PM, David Richfield <davidrichfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Suggestion to encourage other website to generate pastable citation code] > > I like it a lot! How do we go about promoting this idea?
I dont like it. Websites should provide citations as COinS, or another standardised format. Then tools can be built around importing and exporting them into Wikipedia formats. (include different code for different language Wikipedia) e.g. http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-wikipedia-perfect-together/ That does create a barrier to entry, however I would prefer someone adds "* Author, Book title, p. num" in the References section rather than pasting in syntax code from another website without much clue about the process. If they get the former wrong, someone will help them. If they get the latter wrong, they will probably be reverted for breaking the article. We could create a zotero plugin which allows the ref to be added to the end of paragraph. We could go even further and integrate mediawiki and a zotero server so that Wikipedia can use named refs throughout. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20026/zotero-plugin-for-mediawiki/ -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
