# Could we run SourceCred on wikipedia?

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**Created:** [December 27, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/could-we-run-sourcecred-on-wikipedia/493 "2019-12-27T17:25:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/could-we-run-sourcecred-on-wikipedia/493/4 "2019-12-28T13:24:59Z")

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I’m sure we could :] it would need it’s own plugin.

A big part of that is a way to get a local copy of the data without blowing up your disk and network usage. Another is to add semantics, wiki pages, talk pages, users, edit history. Finally a bunch of reference detection logic. Which could leverage [Unified reference detection](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/unified-reference-detection/301)

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