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<tvar name="1">[[WikiCite/Shared Citations]]</tvar> is a bold project that would essentially DOI for all citations. It would enable researchers and editors to find related articles and also split the work of verifying claims inside text versus improving/featuring metadata about each source, while also reducing duplication significantly. Malicious edits to widely shared citations would have similar ramifications as widely used Templates, but it would also make detection of vandalism easier to mitigate too.</translate>
<tvar name="1">[[WikiCite/Shared Citations]]</tvar> is a bold project that would essentially DOI for all citations. It would enable researchers and editors to find related articles and also split the work of verifying claims inside text versus improving/featuring metadata about each source, while also reducing duplication significantly. Malicious edits to widely shared citations would have similar ramifications as widely used Templates, but it would also make detection of vandalism easier to mitigate too.</translate>
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| audience = <translate><!--T:4--> Editors who use citations and resarchers</translate>
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| proposer = [[User:Shushugah|Shushugah]] ([[User talk:Shushugah|talk]])
| proposer = Shushugah
| created = 12:33, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
| created = 2024-08-10T12:33:00Z

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Revision as of 18:34, 2 October 2025

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Description

Re-using citation is error prone and heavy duplication. Harnessing the knowledge across different language Wikipedias and making use of foreign language sources are difficult to find and review for quality/use.

WikiCite/Shared Citations is a bold project that would essentially DOI for all citations. It would enable researchers and editors to find related articles and also split the work of verifying claims inside text versus improving/featuring metadata about each source, while also reducing duplication significantly. Malicious edits to widely shared citations would have similar ramifications as widely used Templates, but it would also make detection of vandalism easier to mitigate too.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish
Feature request
Affected users

Editors who use citations and resarchers

Other details
  • Created: 12:33, 10 August 2024
  • Last updated: 18:34, 2 October 2025
  • Author: Shushugah (talk)
Voting

This wish currently has 16 supporters. Supporting this wish is currently disabled.

Supporters of this wish
Support Shushugah (talk) 12:28, 13 December 2025
Support So9q (talk) 21:06, 14 December 2025
Support Long overdue critical reliability infrastructure! Ocaasi (talk) 23:57, 14 December 2025
Support Inter-rede (talk) 12:59, 15 December 2025
Support Let's do this MilkyDefer (talk) 03:18, 16 December 2025
Support Aaron Liu (talk) 20:49, 20 December 2025
Support Diegodlh (talk) 03:30, 23 December 2025
Support Kind data (talk) 00:55, 13 January 2026
Support Bluerasberry (talk) 21:37, 14 January 2026
Support Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:32, 14 January 2026
Support Davidoskky (talk) 14:50, 23 January 2026
Support Alaexis (talk) 14:54, 13 February 2026
Support and even Strong support Strong support, simply doing an automatic connection with Wikidata would be perfect :) Wyslijp16 (talk) 06:54, 5 March 2026
Support Wostr (talk) 03:42, 5 March 2026
Support Great concept. Really want it to happen! SuperGrey (talk) 17:04, 24 April 2026
Support Valereee (talk) 12:43, 12 May 2026