# 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 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, 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 (subtask: T165304)
-- [ ] 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.
- [ ] Draft a standardized template to enable the discussion and documentation of the data model of each publication type (subtask T165318)
- [ ] Improve the structure of [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Bibliographical_properties | Template:Bibliographical_properties ]]
- [ ] Build the structure of a comparison table to facilitate the mapping of Wikidata bibliographic 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.
- [ ] 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.