From Wikimania
This page is part of the Proceedings of Wikimania 2006.
The Wikicite Project: Toward building a scholarly apparatus
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Jonathan Leybovich |
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| About the creator |
| Jonathan Leybovich has been a contributor to the English-language Wikipedia since Spring 2003 and is currently helping develop a group of projects to improve citation and navigation among information resources on Wikipedia. |
| Abstract |
| 2005 was an eventful year for Wikipedia, as its English language site approached the 1,000,000 article milestone, it held several successful fund-raising drives, and it attracted increasing levels of public and professional attention, including a favorable study in the journal Nature. Yet with increased attention comes increased scrutiny, and 2005 also saw several controversies, from the John Siegenthaler Sr. biography scandal to a ban on edits from Congressional Hill staffers.
Wikicite is an attempt to address growing concerns over the accuracy of Wikipedia by providing a scholarly apparatus for the creation, validation, and research of articles. An umbrella of projects more than a single project itself, Wikicite incorporates and integrates several existing proposed enhancements such as article validation, stable candidate designation and vote, and software-supported factual assertion citation into an integrated whole. Yet the project is not limited to merely ensuring the accuracy of Wikipedia articles; included as one of its deliverables is a complete bibliographic catalog database, Wikicat, and a text relationship database for mapping authority relationships within a particular scholarly literature. While valuable to article editors, this database is intended to stand on its own and become a unique and valuable online scholarly resource.
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