Proposals related to citations:

Related stuff

Related discussions

Is there a way to make citations just by giving a universal ID instead of copying a full citation template?

• fr:Discussion_utilisateur:Jakob.scholbach
• OKFN discussion about a crowdsourced open serials database, Peter Murray-Rust and others

Meta discussion

• June wiki-research-l thread and July addition
• July wiki-research-l thread

Related tools

• "ζητέω, a database for references, designed for use on Wikipedia"
• Creates a Wikipedia template from various identifiers: DrugBank ID, HGNC ID, ISBN, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, PubChem ID, or URL

Find what's Highly cited

• Usage data - which journals are cited by Wikipedia, based on {{cite}} templates
• most popular journals cited on Wikipedia
• Cite Journal miner

Bibliographic databases with Wikipedia export

• Zotero (uses Citation Style Language, which could be adopted by other tools, which could then apply this Wikipedia styling)
• OttoBib can generate Template:Cite book per en:OttoBib
• ...

Open catalogs

• open source, open catalog, RDF support, versioning, FRBR-like domain model
• Open Library
• “freelib” by the Open Library Society

MediaWiki extensions

• Referencing extensions

Examples in use

• Biblio automatically downloads bibliographic records; in use at OpenWetWare

Proposals and Ideas

• Use SemanticMediaWiki to markup facts; draws ideas from BredeWiki templates, see Finn Årup Nielsen, Two-way citations in MediaWiki
• Classics and citations, http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Category:Citation_in_digital_scholarship and citations that just work (maybe particularly relevant for wikisource)

Related templates

• Uses include backlinks, e.g. en:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Greenwood&Earnshaw

General citation templates

• en:Template:Citation
• en:Template:cite journal
• ...

Citation templates for specific things

• en:Template:AS_ref
• en:Template:ME-ref
• ...

Previous projects

• meta:Wikicat

Future projects

• Knowledge for All project - universal citation index to all of the world's past and current scholarly journal literature, starting from RSS feeds, metadata provided by authors, and automated citation indexing software, along with existing free subject-specific journal indexes . "People will monitor and edit automatically generated content and also create original content for citation records, including adding missing metadata and doing subject indexing using controlled vocabularies." Press release. Contact Mark Leggott at University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

French Wikipedia citation namespace

• Creation proposal
• Maintained by fr:Projet:Sources -- or is it fr:Projet:Références?
• Example: fr:Référence:Physique théorique (Landau et Lifchitz)
• the talk page will be used for transcriptions, translations, and requesting verification (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check), and PD sources which are often used will be easier to find in order to transcribe onto Wikisource according to [:en:User:Jayvdb|John Vandenberg] at [1]
• Possibly related models of citations fr:Projet:Mythologie_grecque/Modèles_de_sources