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This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.
WikiCite
Status of the proposal
Statusunder discussion
Details of the proposal
Project descriptiondatabase of citations, supporting general knowledge profiling and Wikipedia fact-checking
Is it a multilingual wiki?yes
Potential number of languagesmany
Proposed taglinesum of all sources
Proposed URL
Technical requirements
New features to requireWikiCite currently runs in Wikidata, but breaks the limits of Wikidata as described in The Signpost.
Development wiki
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

Proposed by

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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

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WikiCite is the most popular name after years of discussion.

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

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

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

Domain names

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http://wikicite.org/

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Demos

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Scholia generates scholarly profiles based on Wikidata
presentation at WikiConference North America 2024

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

People interested

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  1. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:03, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  3. OhanaUnitedTalk page 14:31, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Mozucat (talk) 19:19, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Peaceray (talk) 13:22, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  6. carlinmack (talk) 12:40, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Zanahary (talk) 20:06, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Superraptor123 (talk) 20:07, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Ahc84 (talk) 20:08, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Sincerely, ZhaoFJx(T) 21:16, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Kosboot (talk) 20:32, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  12. --Prototyperspective (talk) 23:44, 14 January 2026 (UTC) interested but find it quite unclear; what exactly is proposed here and how could it move things out of Wikidata and so in a way that enables going beyond the low limits of Wikidata? Moreover, the usefulness is not entirely made clear but afaik when it comes to Scholia for example, it is largely dependent on the state of completion of metadata on books and studies where Wikidata currently only has an estimated 1% of both (and not even the most notable thereof but more like a random subset). There are some metadata-databases from which data would need to be imported for Scholia to be useful but I'm not sure how this is meant to become used and useful beyond Scholia.[reply]
  13. JhowieNitnek (talk) 13:35, 17 January 2026
  14. Rtnf (talk) 04:31, 17 February 2026 (UTC)(UTC)[reply]
  15. Leaf plate (talk) 09:58, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  16. GerardM (talk) 12:37, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  17. DrThneed (talk) 20:50, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Geyslein (talk) 16:14, 02 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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