WikiCite (3)

WikiCite is many things including

• The Wikimedia solution to discovering publications
  • Scholia

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.

WikiCite
Status of the proposal
Status	under discussion
Details of the proposal
Project description	database of citations, supporting general knowledge profiling and Wikipedia fact-checking
Is it a multilingual wiki?	yes
Potential number of languages	many
Proposed tagline	sum of all sources
Proposed URL	wikicite.org
Technical requirements
New features to require	WikiCite currently runs in Wikidata, but breaks the limits of Wikidata as described in The Signpost.
Development wiki	front end back end
Interested participants
WikiCite already exists and has thousands of Wikimedia editors and many more university partners.

Proposed by

The WikiCite concept may be the most commonly proposed idea for a Wikimedia project that editors repeatedly discover. At minimum, a hundred people could share founder credit, but probably founder credit should go to all supporters at the time of the project's establishment.

• Wikicite (metadata proposal)
• Wikicite (2006 proposal)
• WikiScholar (2013)
• d:Wikidata:WikiCite (2014)
• WikiCite/Shared Citations (2020)

Alternative names

WikiCite is the most popular name after years of discussion.

Other terms could be references, sources, knowledge, metadata, cataloging, or library.

Related projects/proposals

WikiCite currently runs on Wikidata, but has grown so large that Wikidata has broken because of its size.

Domain names

http://wikicite.org/

Demos

Readers should try the examples at

• https://scholia.toolforge.org

On Wikidata consider

• d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Clinical_Trials/Query

For editors, the most popular tool is the author disambiguator

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Author_Disambiguator

Other projects which use the same data include

• https://histropedia.com/
• https://inventaire.io/welcome

People interested

• Bluerasberry (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)