I'm back working at ContentMine, as Wikimedian in Residence , on the ScienceSource
project, which is the sequel to WikiFactMine. We started in June, and yesterday launched
our first participatory subproject. (The ScienceSource wiki is coming along, but will not
be active for a little while yet.)
The landing page for the ScienceSource focus list is at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ScienceSource_focus_list
and that page has a couple of videos that start in at a very basic level. There is also
some general discussion today on Wikipedia, at WT:MED, from the perspective of medical
editors. The overall aim of ScienceSource is to give proper technical support to those who
want to edit Wikipedia medical articles. There is a barrier to entry, namely the WP:MEDRS
guideline on reliable sources in the health area. It is quite an education to try to
understand it, from a standing start.
To add a biomediical paper to the focus list, which currently has about 600 papers, you
need to add a P5008 statements to the paper's Wikidata item, with object ScienceSource
(Q55439927). More detailed instructions are on the page, and the list can be viewed using
a query on its talk page.
We are looking to collect 30K relevant open access papers, with good coverage of medical
conditions. Please have a go yourself, and forward this mail to anyone you think might be
interested. Those with suggestions who don't want to work on Wikidata can use the talk
page to make them. Wikimedians, medical experts, librarians, all are welcome.
Charles