WikiCite (3)

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.
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WikiCite is many things including

the Wikidata-based citation graph organized at d:Wikidata:WikiCite
the conference series organized at WikiCite
the Wikimedia solution to discovering publications at Scholia
a citation database for Wikipedia with Shared Citations

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.

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. For an overview, consider

2024 "Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure", The Signpost

These texts give perspectives on how people use WikiCite and why WikiCite breaks Wikidata.

2018 WikiCite Roadmap 2018
2019 WikiProject Limits of Wikidata
2021 Wikidata Scholarly Articles Subgraph Analysis
2021 Blazegraph failure playbook
2021 WikiCite panel discussion (WikidataCon 2021 recording) (video)
2023 WikiCite Roadmap 2023
2024 Wikidata Query Service Graph Split

Domain names

http://wikicite.org/

Mailing list links

WikiCite on Telegram; 212 users as of October 2024

Demos

Scholia generates scholarly profiles based on Wikidata

Readers should try the examples in Scholia, which profiles WikiCite content.

On Wikidata consider WikiProject Clinical Trials, which profiles medical research, drugs, researchers, and institutes.

For Wikimedia editors, the most popular tool is the Author Disambiguator

Other projects which use the same data include