# About
WikiCite is an initiative by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Germany aiming to bring together a community of volunteer contributors, librarians, software developers and researchers to build a central repository of sources, leveraging Wikidata, as well as tools and strategies to improve information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia projects.
In preparation for the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017 | WikiCite 2017 ]] event, the event’s organizing committee is starting work towards redesigning and streamlining the structure of documentation on sources in Wikidata and promote participation by existing and prospective community members.
# Tasks
This is the parent task, To this aim, we expect to :subtasks are listed below and linked to respective tasks.
- [ ] Organize WikiCite prep work and get set up on phabricator
-- [x] create WikiCite tag and workboard
-- [x] create a coordination task (this task)
- [ ] Prepare a list of //publication types// in need of a well-defined data model in Wikidata
[ ] Organize WikiCite Prep work and get set up on phabricator-- [ ] identify existing proposals and discussions for each publication type (for example, scholarly papers have been extensively discussed [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData#Properties | here ]], books are discussed and modeled [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books | here ]]).
-- [] Identify and list publication types that are completely missing from Wikidata and should be created from scratch.
[ ] Design an umbrella project (e.g.: Wikiproject Sources) to make existing WikiProjects focused on bibliographic metadata (WikiProject Books, WikiProject Periodicals, WikiProject Source Metadata) more easily discoverable and structured in a similar way.- [ ] Draft a standardized template to enable the discussion and documentation of the data model of each publication type
[ ] Design standardized templates to enable the creation of additional subprojects to document the data model of new types of works and sources (e.g. news articles, conference proceedings, preprints, clinical trials, etc) and the corresponding discussion spaces.- [ ] Improve the structure of [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Bibliographical_properties | Template:Bibliographical_properties ]]
- [ ] Build tables to facilitate thehe structure of a comparison and mapping of Wikidata properties and n table to facilitate the mapping of Wikidata models relevant to sources withbibliographic properties to existing source and citation templates across other Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia {{cite}} templates) as well as canonical bibliographic data models used in the librarian and scholarly metadata community.
[ ] S- [ ] design an umbrella portal (e.g.: Wikiproject Sources or repurpose [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sources | Wikidata:Sources ]]), currently a redirect) to make existing WikiProjects focused on bibliographic metadata (WikiProject Books, WikiProject Periodicals, WikiProject Source Metadata) more easily discoverable and structured in a similar way. This could be drafted in the user namespace to make sure there can be a community discussion before we move it to the project namespace.
- [ ] seed the discussion on the above data modeling efforts, by engaging relevant community members to contribute in fleshing out missing data models, and expanding existing ones.