Wikindx Explained
| WIKINDX |
| Developer: | Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard & Stéphane Aulery |
| Latest Release Version: | 6.9.1 [1] |
| Programming Language: | PHP/MySQL |
| Operating System: | Portable |
| Genre: | Reference management |
| License: | ISC |
WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system (virtual research environment) designed either for single use (on a variety of operating systems) and multi-user collaborative use across the internet.[2] WIKINDX falls within the category of reference management software, but also provides functionality to write notes and entire papers.[3]
User features
User features include:
- 41 resource types (Artwork, Audiovisual, Bill, Book, Book Article, Book Chapter Number, Broadcast, Brochure, Chart/Image, Classical Work, Conference Paper, Conference Poster, Film, Government Report/Documentation, Hearing, Journal Article, Legal Case, Legal Rule/Regulation, Magazine Article, Manuscript, Map, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Section, Music Score, Newspaper Article, Online Database, Patent, Personal Communication, Proceedings, Proceedings Article, Recorded Music Album, Recorded Music Track, Report/Documentation, Software, Statute, Thesis/Dissertation, Unpublished Work, Web Article, Web Encyclopedia, Web Encyclopedia Article, Web Site).
- 29 translations included for major languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Portuguese [Brazil], Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian).
- Multi-user mode – create and manage bibliographies drawn from the WIKINDX master bibliography and browse other users' bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
- Create user groups and user group bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
- Save custom preferences.
- Enter/edit bibliographic resources.
- Add and search unlimited file attachments to each resource. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
- Catalogue resources by categories, sub-categories and keyword(s).
- Enter/edit a general note about the whole resource.
- Enter/edit quotes and paraphrases from those resources.
- Enter/edit thoughts or musings on various aspects of a resource (can be private or public).
- Enter/edit ideas that are independent of resources.
- Add keywords to resource metadata such as quotes, paraphrases and musings.
- Cross-reference other WIKINDX resources from within quotes, paraphrases, musings, ideas, notes and abstracts.
- Edit keywords, creators, publishers and journals.
- Comprehensive search across all the above with highlighting of search terms using either Quick Search or the flexible Advanced Search.
- Reorder bibliographic lists by first creator, title, resource type, publisher, year of publication or timestamp.
- Browse all creators, publishers, collections, categories and keywords with font colour and size indicating frequency of occurrence.
- Unlimited primary creators, editors, translators and revisers, composers, agents, performers etc.
- Import bibliographies into WIKINDX and export bibliographies – Endnote, RIS, BibTeX, RTF, HTML, PubMed. (Import must be enabled by the administrator.)
- Export bibliographic lists (optionally annotated) with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
- Export ideas with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
- Cut 'n' Paste BibTeX entries to the database (amount limited by the administrator).
- View and export in various bibliographic styles including ABNT, Chicago, MLA, APA, Harvard, Turabian, British Medical Journal and IEEE.
- User-defined paging of long bibliographic lists.
- View all resources, quotes, paraphrases and musings or a single random one.
- One-click return to last bibliographic list or single view.
- Store up to 20 bookmarks for quick return to single views and resource lists.
- Add resources to a temporary basket for viewing and exporting.
- Select a visual style.
- Import WIKINDX resources into Zotero.
Administrator features
Administrator features include:
- Builtin and LDAP auth.
- Design custom CSS templates for web browser display and integrate WIKINDX into an existing web site.
- Enable/disable multi-user mode, add users or allow user self-registration.
- Several levels of write and read only access.
- Delete resources.
- Add custom text fields to resources.
- Manage users and resource categories and sub-categories.
- Merge keywords into one keyword.
- Merge and group creators into one creator.
- Import bibliographies into WIKINDX and export bibliographies – Endnote, RIS, BibTeX, RTF, HTML, PubMed
- Manage plugins, visual templates, citation styles, and localizations.
- Add general news items and optionally email the item to registered users.
- Optionally receive email notification of user registrations.
- Provide a RSS feed of latest additions and edits.
- WIKINDX resources can be optionally indexed by Google Scholar.
- WIKINDX has an architecture enabling the easy writing of plugins to expand its features.
- User registration requests implement anti-spam/bot measures.
- Attachments can be embargoed (blocked from public view) until a specified date – the embargo is automatically lifted on or after the specified date. Until that time, only admins can view embargoed attachments.
See also
Bibliography
Notes and References
- Web site: WIKINDX latest version download.
- Web site: WIKINDX. SourceForge.net.
- Web site: Tuzi. Frank. May 27, 2008. Wikindx facilitates academic writing in a browser. 2020-08-11. Linux.com.
