Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Wikicite/feature requests (section)

== Specification Requests==

=== BibTeX ===

Entries in the Wikicite database should be "compatible" with [[BibTeX]] entries. BibTeX is the citation format of choice for math, physics, computer science and some other areas. This means that a BibTeX entry should be structurally a subset of the WikiCite entry, so that some trivial text processing with [[perl]] or [[awk|gawk]] can extract BibTex from the Wikicite entry. Possibly a BibTeX entry by itself could be a minimal Wikicite entry.  This is a design issue.

Wikicite would have numerous advantages over a raw BibTeX entry.  One could it to direct readers to specific sections of a book, warnings about pitfalls in other sections, summaries, of what you "really need to know" to understand a paragraph, POV's and so on. This is impossible in BibTeX.

===Namespace===

Wikicite entries should be in their own namespace equally accessible to all wikiprojects.

===XML===

Wkicite entries should be able to produce XML, multilinguinal, output. See [http://www.nongnu.org/bibulus/ bibulus] for an example software project.

===Editor generated tags ===

There will be tags that can be added which will be stored in the database for look up. For example, <nowiki>{{name:Wealth of Nations}}</nowiki> could be added to "An Inquiry into the causes of the Wealth of Nations". These tags should be protectable to prevent vandalism from breaking links.

===Language and Origin information===
Each wikicite entry should include original language of publication and original place of publication, with any additional language translations (and perhaps their own wikicite entries) available.  Also, edition information with editor info and new date of publication for each new version of a book, say Guinness World Book, an encyclopedia, etc.