Extension:Bibwiki

About Bibwiki
Bibwiki offers a web-based interface to manage bibliographies. The bibliographies itself are stored a in plain text files in the widely used BibTeX format. In contrast to other programs, Bibwiki alters the bibliographic files directly. There's no need to import or export bibliographic information into or from a seperate database.

Bibwiki enriches MediaWiki with a special page where you can collect bibliographic entries. The good thing about Mediawiki is that it's very easy to write good looking texts and organize them in a nice fashion by linking and grouping.

I made Bibwiki to manage my bibliographic database files and link my bibliographic records to excerpts, notes, annotations or outlines and vice versa. Those texts and snippets are stored as ordinary pages or articles in Mediawiki.

Many web-based bibliographic interfaces store their data in database tables in an arbitrary format. This is useful and time-saving if there are millions of records in use by a thousands of people. But it's unnecessary and awkward when you just want to manage your private bibliography.

When your bibliography is buried in a DBMS, there's no direct way to use to it for your LaTeX documents or to share them with your friends. Usually you have to export them first. This is time-consuming and lacks flexibility.

Bibwiki instead offers an interface to add, edit and delete bibliographic data directly to the BibTeX file. Since it is integrated in Mediawiki you can use it on a remote server or on your local machine.

Visit the homepage at http://www.plaschg.net/bibwiki.

Author
Wolfgang Plaschg 

License
Bibwiki is released under the GPL.