WikiCite/Timeline

A timeline of past efforts towards the design of a central repository of citations leveraging Wikidata

2017

• WikiCite 2017, Vienna, Austria, on May 22-25, 2017

2016

• WikiCite 2016, Berlin
  • Property P2860 (cites) is created
• Wikimedia Developer Summit, San Francisco

2015

• Wikipedia as the front matter to all research on Meta – joint Crossref/Wikimedia presentation on citations and references in Wikimedia projects.
  • Slides: Commons / Slideshare; Video: YouTube (start at 24:59)
• a WikiBase test instance called LibraryBase with a dedicated SPARQL endpoint is created on Wikimedia Labs.
• Hackathon at Wikimania 2015, Mexico City

2014

• Rich citations hackathon at the Public Library of Science, San Francisco
  • a data model for scholarly article metadata is created
• Reform of citation structure for all Wikimedia projects at IdeaLab
• Citathon at Wikimania 2014, London
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData is created
  • Panel: wm2014:Submissions/Reform of citation structure for all Wikimedia projects (Video: YouTube)

2012

• 2012 Wikimedia Hackathon, Berlin
• Open Metadata Handbook at Wikibooks

Pre-Wikidata efforts

• German Wikipedia starts using the BibISBN template to transclude bibliographic records in 2010. (example)

2011

• The concept of WikiCite is proposed at the Digital Public Library of America Plenary.

• The design for the WikiCite proposal was partially based on WikiPapers

• The phrase "wiki papers" was first used by Wolfgang Pauli on a private mailing list in 2007.

• See also Wikicite (pre-Wikidata)

2006

• LibraryThing introduces "Wikipedia for book cataloging."

2005

• Wikipedia proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikicite
• WikiBib v0, WikiBib v1

2004

• WikiProject Fact and Reference Check