CiteIt’s Contextual Citations are a natural addition to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia already has popup windows which show more information about linked articles.
- These popups appear whenever a reader mouses over an article name (see Los Angeles Lakers example to the right)
- Contextual Citations would be similar to contextual article popups. — a popup would appear to provide more context about a quotation — but they would only appear when a reader clicks on the quotation, not on mouseover.
- The data for these contextual citations would be pulled from the original source when the Wikipedia author publishes the article.
Wikipedia Contextual Citations
Below are mockups of a few sample articles that demonstrate what Wikipedia would look like if it used CiteIt.net’s proposed Contextual Citations.
Click an article title below to view a mocked up article
People/Groups
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg ← Click to view example
- Hillary Clinton
- Donald Trump
Literature
History
Science
Screenshot
Below is a screenshot of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg article mockup which shows the Contextual Popup that appears when a reader clicks on the light grey-blue text of a contextual quotation, in this case: “Ginsburg precedent“.
The Contextual Popup displays the 500 characters before and after the quote. In this instance, the quote is from a 2005 New York Times article.
Source: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mockup
Proposal for Wikipedia Editor
On the Wikipedia technical end, I’ve also written up a proposal describing the technical changes that would need to be made to Wikipedia’s editor to allow links to be specified with blockquote and q tags.
Converting Existing Wikipedia articles
I assume that the first Wikipedia article’s citations would first be manually marked up with hand-coding or the using the editor, but that eventually, the goal would be to automate the process of converting existing citations to CiteIt’s Contextual Citations. (read more)
Test Cases
This list of a few of the issues that could could be converted into a test suite that is used in development.
| Category | Class | Description | Example | Color |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Error | citeit-error-context | Context is Returned, but Incorrect | Example:
convention’s “ |
#ff3399 |
| Error | citeit-error-quote-returned | Error in Returned Quote | Quote:
Clinton asserted President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal was “a con” for underfunding domestic programsReturned: Clinton called Mr. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal ” a cong ” which she said would underfund public education |
red |
| Error | citeit-error-quote-context-edges | Slight character errors in Surrounding Context | Example:
“adding that her mother Dorothy “made sure I learned [these] words from our Methodist faith” Quote: “And she made sure I learned [these] ds from our Methodist faith” |
red |
| citeit-pdf-scanned | Source Document is a PDF image that needs to be scanned with OCR | Example:
memorandum saying “ HTML: memorandum saying “<q cite=”https://media.arkansasonline.com/news/documents/2020/06/03/Trump_Physical_Exam.pdf” class=”citeit-pdf-scanned”>the data indicates that the President remains healthy. |
#0099ff | |
| Match | citeit-footnote-shortname | Footnote is a short form of citation. The program needs to Need to cross-reference the short name with the longer reference in the references cited section. | The footnote is listed in the short form: Lastname, page
Troy 2006, pp. 176–77 Troy, Gil (2006). Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1488-2. |
red |
| Wiki | citeit-footnote-later | The match is not found in the first footnote, but in a second footnote. | Quote:
“In July 2016, she “committed” to introducing a U.S. constitutional amendment” 1st Source: not found 1st Source URL: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/16/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign-finance/2nd Footnote 1: Merica, Dan (July 16, 2016). “Clinton: I will introduce campaign finance amendment in first 30 days”. also see 2 1/2-minute video: CNN. Retrieved July 17, 2016. Footnote 2: Oreskes, Benjamin (July 16, 2016). “Clinton pledges constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United ruling”. Politico. Retrieved July 17, 2016. Hillary Clinton committed Saturday to introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision within her first 30 days in office, if she’s elected president. |
#cc6600 |
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