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    * WCD Generation 1: Wikibase instance on Wikibase Cloud. Importing data was painfully slow, and it was decided Wikibase was not a good format for the data we were trying to store. The dataset produced is lost and was not very interesting or useful.
    * WCD Generation 1: Wikibase instance on Wikibase Cloud. Importing data was painfully slow, and it was decided Wikibase was not a good format for the data we were trying to store. The dataset produced is lost and was not very interesting or useful.
    * WCD Generation 2: [https://github.com/internetarchive/iari IARI]; Postgres-based, but was extremely difficult to work with. Parts of it are used to support the Internet Archive Reference Explorer.
    * WCD Generation 2: [https://github.com/internetarchive/iari IARI]; Postgres-based, but was extremely difficult to work with. Parts of it are used to support the Internet Archive Reference Explorer.
    * WCD Generation 3: The latest attempt, using [https://github.com/internetarchive/wiki-references-extractor wiki-references-extractor] and [https://github.com/internetarchive/wiki-references-db wiki-references-db] (WRDB). WRDB is a core component of the broader WCD project.
    * WCD Generation 3: The latest attempt, using [https://github.com/internetarchive/wiki-references-extractor wiki-references-extractor] and [https://github.com/internetarchive/wiki-references-db wiki-references-db] (WRDB). WRDB is a core component of the broader WCD project. Version 2 adds [https://github.com/internetarchive/RevisionChest RevisionChest] as a pre-processing step.
    ** Version 1: https://wikipediacitations.scatter.red
    ** Version 1: <s><nowiki>https://wikipediacitations.scatter.red</nowiki></s>
    *** Partial build of English Wikipedia
    *** Partial build of English Wikipedia
    *** Has issues dealing with broken wikitext
    *** Has issues dealing with broken wikitext
    ** Version 2:  
    ** Version 2: '''https://citations.scatteranalytics.com'''
    *** Rather than build an entire database upfront, have it be possible to analyze a '''page URL''' at a '''point in time'''. This will allow us to prove the extraction mechanisms are working without resorting to building an entire database first
    *WCD Generation 4 (pending): To be built off of a combination of Generation 3 and [https://github.com/scatter-llc/UVAWikipediaCitationsDatabase UVAWikipediaCitationsDatabase] which adds mapping between extracted citations and underlying sources
    **** Available as [https://wikipediacitations-now.scatter.red Wikipedia Citations Now]
     
    *** Be able to tell what part of the article a reference is from (in-line vs. endnote, etc.)
    == Interesting findings ==
    *** JSON representation of template parameters so you don't have to parse them out of the template
    All are English Wikipedia articles
    *** Use LLM to parse the article in general. Maybe have an option to select between classical parsing and LLM-based extraction.
     
    **** Use basic mwparserfromhell extraction as first step. If a user comes across an entry and it looks broken, offer option to re-generate report with AI. User can then accept alternative.
    * [https://citations.scatteranalytics.com/explorer/citation/51c35f5a082e88d867dfb0872e4ab6ac7311a9e9/other-articles?page_id=12292404 Non-templated citation used on three different articles]
    *** In data model, associate references with revision id; then, associate revision IDs with timestamps in another table
    * [https://citations.scatteranalytics.com/explorer/template/6385/report?parameter_key=isbn&parameter_value=978-0-226-77142-7 Same ISBN in "Cite book" template used across 22 articles with varying citations]
    * [https://citations.scatteranalytics.com/explorer/citation/bdbb085b4fb9a609b67d8732f076eab3d8d6a536/other-articles?page_id=3410 Two citations to the same book, but without ISBN]
     
    Potential bugs:
     
    * Discrepancy between same-citation report and matching template parameter (if two citations are an exact match then they should appear in the same template parameter use report)
    ** [https://citations.scatteranalytics.com/explorer/citation/1ab8b8026639f6959f94736a4ec83e777e63ef14/other-articles?page_id=3410 other articles] and [https://citations.scatteranalytics.com/explorer/template/1374/report?parameter_key=doi&parameter_value=10.1016/0006-3207%2891%2990031-4%20 doi parameter value]
    ** [https://citations.scatteranalytics.com/explorer/citation/da6f699ca0a7f4d229011919ae1bd0b3c2b6f5e9/other-articles?page_id=1553396 other articles] and [https://citations.scatteranalytics.com/explorer/template/6385/report?parameter_key=isbn&parameter_value=978-0-19-958740-7 isbn parameter value]


    == Longer term challenges ==
    == Longer term challenges ==

    Revision as of 21:31, 26 June 2026

    Introduction

    Wikipedia Citations Database is an effort supported by Internet Archive to build a comprehensive, historical database of each citation to appear on Wikipedia.

    While methodologies of similar projects have focused on extracting standardized identifiers or easy-to-extract references, this project instead seeks to build a complete database, based on analyzing the structure.

    Generations

    • WCD Generation 1: Wikibase instance on Wikibase Cloud. Importing data was painfully slow, and it was decided Wikibase was not a good format for the data we were trying to store. The dataset produced is lost and was not very interesting or useful.
    • WCD Generation 2: IARI; Postgres-based, but was extremely difficult to work with. Parts of it are used to support the Internet Archive Reference Explorer.
    • WCD Generation 3: The latest attempt, using wiki-references-extractor and wiki-references-db (WRDB). WRDB is a core component of the broader WCD project. Version 2 adds RevisionChest as a pre-processing step.
    • WCD Generation 4 (pending): To be built off of a combination of Generation 3 and UVAWikipediaCitationsDatabase which adds mapping between extracted citations and underlying sources

    Interesting findings

    All are English Wikipedia articles

    Potential bugs:

    Longer term challenges

    • Sometimes, Wikipedia includes statements from Wikidata, and those statements from Wikidata have citations, but they would not show up in revision text.
      • Would this require cross-referencing with rendered HTML output?
      • Or a "citations database plus" that includes the Wikidata item? (Wikipedia editors would probably like this for quickly comparing citations between Wikipedia article and Wikidata item.)
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