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I've set up this page for general discussion about WikiCite. Feel free to introduce yourself or ask questions here. Harej (talk) 01:46, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Publisher/platform supplied metadata?

Hi All!

I am the metadata strategist at Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/). Is there a way I can help share MUSE metadata to assist WikiCite?

Best, Matthew Mtreskon.muse (talk) 13:10, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am not aware of a scraper for the system. In Scholia there is a scraper for the Open Journal System, but as far as I can see it is not an Open Journal System. I suppose we could add a MUSE scraper to Scholia. — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 09:21, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conference properties

I have added two Wikidata property proposals for conferences: number of submissions and number of accepted contributions. This was based on talks with User:NandanaM and others about modeling scientific events. I am not aware of other properties we could use for this information. If you have input for the property proposal supportive, not supportive or comments, I would appreciate that. — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 09:19, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

rfc : creating a csl-compatible python library to use with pywikibot that connects citation style language with wikidata to ports of common citation languages ( apa , harvard , etc. ) used by foreign databases .

motivation :

citation style language ( csl ) is widely used by academic databases and research tools such as ads , zotero , etc.

there is a js library citation.js and command line interface to port wikidata json format to csl to convert to a range of citation formats including bibtex .

while mapping the common fields between wikidata statements and the fields in scholarly articles from scientific databases , there is a gap / absence from them . that means either some of the identifiers ( e.g. bibcodes ) won ' t match for iterating in the datasets from databases because there simply doesn ' t exist for the same identifiers connecting with wikidata and the scientific databases and has to manually create a entry point ( e.g. Q112684896 ) for matching the fields between wikidata and the database .

csl comes between them as a third party common citation language interpreter to understand the properties in academic category of wikidata queried by sparql language and translate it to match the common shared fields and identifiers of scholarly articles existing in the modern day open source scientific databases .

application :

a csl-compatible python library exists to facilitate the automatic handling of datasets between wikidata and scientific databases , such as creating scholarly articles from databases via csl to wikidata , or vice versa using pywikibot .

a downstream application ( e.g. cite q ) can then generate citations from the newly created scholarly articles referring the csl common properties created for them by pulling data from wikidata .

triages :

determine which foreign databases to use with ( open source and open science ones ) . determine which citation languages could be implemented with csl ( apa , chicago , harvard , etc. ) by defining the shared properties among the databases and its border . find alternatives of csl that could be potentially better utilized with the existing infrastructure ( including the citeproc-py library ) .

comments are welcome !

--ZHANG, HENGMING ( Feliciss ) (talk) . 12:23, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Add yourself

Jeanne Noiraud

Wikipedia and Wikidata contributor interested in using wikidata as a tool for cumulative literature reviews in social sciences : we need better meta-data about scholarly articles to make our work easier !

Harej

Wikidata contributor since 2013. Consults for Internet Archive on InternetArchiveBot and WikiCite-related matters. I can help you with Wikidata and Wikibase.

Bluerasberry

I will talk with anyone about source metadata!

Pigsonthewing

aka Andy Mabbett. Ask me about the {{Cite Q}} template!

ArthurPSmith

responsible for Author Disambiguator, also some metadata for physics articles and authors

so9q

author of ItemSubjector and currently consulting as main developer of wcdimportbot at the Internet Archive

Diegodlh

Cita and Web2Cit creator

Fpa1981

working on a number of matters related to Building Better Science

Egon Willighagen

citations are our collective knowledge

حبيشان

{{Arabic Cite Q}} maintainer. Interested to add Arabic sources to Wikidata

correogsk

I am a Mexican (Mexico City/CDMX) wikipedian, psychologist and translator. Thanks!

Kolja21

I am a Wikipedian from Berlin working with the German National Library (DNB) and the Bavarian State Library (BSB) to improve authority files and create missing GND IDs.

nbarchaeo

I am archaeologist from Poland. I am trying to develope a collection of literature on Mobile GIS in archaeology

I am Bhadz

Musician/artist