I have added COinS tags to the two most common Wikipedia citation
templates, {{Cite book}} and {{Cite journal}}, so when people cite
something using one of these templates a COinS tag will be generated
after it.
So if you go to any major article that references books or journals
(like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian>), you should see COinS
tags in the <em>References</em> section, next to each reference, so
you can visit your library's copy of a journal article that we cited
to check our facts, etc.
This won't be the case for <em>all</em> books or journals, though;
only those that use the citation templates <http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Template:Cite_book> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Template:Cite_journal> But these two are very common.
I'm not sure if I got everything right. If you see an error in the
encoding of the COinS tag, please point it out on my talk page <http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Omegatron> Especially PMIDs.
Caveat: There's no way to do any sort of string processing, so if
someone includes things in the fields that aren't meant to be in the
equivalent OpenURL fields, there's nothing we can currently do about
it. For instance, if someone enters a link within the title field,
the COinS tag will have brackets in it. See my examples of unlinked
and linked title tags:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Omegatron/
COinS_testing#Markup_within_parameters>
It seems that resolvers can find the articles in most cases, anyway,
though. In the future I hope to have a markup stripping tag to make
this even better:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8161
Wikipedia also has had a very rudimentary COinS tag on the Book
sources page for a while, right after the word "Notes":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources
It just contains the ISBN that is passed to the Book sources page, as
that's all we can really do with the tools given to users, but that's
better than nothing.
I suggest that this graphic be acclaimed the official
graphic-for-purposes-of-slide-presentations-on-COinS
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This is great! I've already started hyping this in a podcast
interview that will be well-heard. :)
Thanks for your work on this, and for updating us.
-Dan
This logo was created by Andrew Forman, who gave me permission, at
least, to show it publicly during talks while I speak about COinS
(which I've done repeatedly). I think it's safe to presume he'd be
happy to see it more widely used, although I think he's no longer
active in this community due to job/life changes.
If anybody knows how to reach him, please forward this so he can
confirm and we can be sure?
-Dan
And don't forget - if you do want to cite a journal article on
Wikipedia (well, biomedical journal article at least), you can export
a correctly-formatted citation for Wikipedia from HubMed using unAPI...
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001408.html
alf.
<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal
&rft.atitle={{urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}
&rft.jtitle={{urlencode:{{SITENAME}}, {{MediaWiki:Sitesubtitle}}}}
&rft.date={{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}
&rft.artnum={{REVISIONID}}
&rft.genre=article
&rft.aucorp={{SITENAME}} contributors
&rft_id={{urlencode:{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|
oldid={{REVISIONID}}}}}}
"> </span>
which generates something like this (except unbroken):
<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal
&rft.atitle=Cuttlefish
&rft.jtitle=Wikipedia%2C+The+Free+Encyclopedia
&rft.date=2007-03-02
&rft.artnum=112171784
&rft.genre=article
&rft.aucorp=Wikipedia contributors
&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle
%3DCuttlefish%26oldid%3D112171784
"> </span>
Does this look good? REVISIONID is our internal revision number. Is
this an appropriate use of rft.artnum?
--
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Special:Cite&page=Cuttlefish&id=112171784>
The tag is at the bottom underneath everything else.
That's good; but I believe that the data and COinS mark-up should be on
the page itself; see:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Citing_Wikipedia#Citation_data_should_be_on_the_page_concerned>
aka:
<http://tinyurl.com/2fpxsu>
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Of course, but that would require changes to Mediawiki. We're not
going to add them manually to each page. After we make sure we have
the COinS tag on the "Cite this article" page correctly formatted, we
should file a feature request:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi
Also, ocoins.info can be updated:
1. Wikipedia
* Book Sources Page
* Cite this article / article bibliographic details page
* References that use citation templates
I intend to add them to more citation templates next.
>
>On Mar 20, 4:49 pm, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>> That's good; but I believe that the data and COinS mark-up should be on
>> the page itself
>
>Of course, but that would require changes to Mediawiki.
Yes; as I say on:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Citing_Wikipedia#Citation_data_should_be_on_the_page_concerned>
aka:
<http://tinyurl.com/2fpxsu>
>After we make sure we have the COinS tag on the "Cite this article"
>page correctly formatted, we should file a feature request:
>
>http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi
By "we" I assume you're volunteering ;-)
It might also be worth starting discussion on the MediaWiki wiki.
Please post here if you do either; I'd certainly add my support.
>Also, ocoins.info can be updated:
>
>1. Wikipedia
>* Book Sources Page
That doesn't seem to be working. For instance, it gives me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/
fmt:kev:mtx:book&isbn=0950788120&sid=openly:openurlref
(wrapped for clarity)
which simply returns the Wikipedia home page.
>That doesn't seem to be working. For instance, it gives me:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
> ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/
> fmt:kev:mtx:book&isbn=0950788120&sid=openly:openurlref
>
> (wrapped for clarity)
>
>which simply returns the Wikipedia home page.
I should have said that that's when suing OpenURL Referrer, in FireFox.
By "we" I mean I'm volunteering, but don't wait for me to get around
to it. :-) We need to decide what we want, first, though. I've been
told that RDF or unAPI would be better for the article's self-
description:
http://forums.zotero.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=327/#Comment_2379
> That doesn't seem to be working ... when [using] OpenURL Referrer, in FireFox.
You must not have it configured right. Mine works fine.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
> ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/
> fmt:kev:mtx:book&isbn=0950788120&sid=openly:openurlref
It should look like that, but starting with your local library instead
of wikipedia.