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Upload citation data to Wikidata
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bib2wikidata
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Upload bibliographic data to Wikidata.

[Wikidata](http://wikidata.org/) is a [Wikimedia](http://wikimedia.org/) project which stores
huge amount of openly licensed ([CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)) data.
This tool is designed to help create an open bibliographic database.

If you have a bibliography in [CSL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_Style_Language) format,
you can use this tool to upload it to Wikidata.

Installation
------------

bib2wikidata is built upon the [Meteor platform](http://www.meteor.com/). You can install it with:

curl https://install.meteor.com | sh

Clone a bib2wikidata repository:

git clone https://github.com/mitar/bib2wikidata.git

Run a local instance of bib2wikidata:

meteor

Open [http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/), which is an address of
your local instance.

You will have to [register an OAuth consumer](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose). Ask for the following permissions:

* Basic rights
* High-volume editing
* Edit existing pages
* Edit protected pages
* Create, edit, and move pages