Forwarding this question on behalf of someone from the Public Library of
Science -- please reply both to me and to her, as she's not on the list.
Thanks.
>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Jennifer Lin
<jlin(a)plos.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi, Daniel. I received your contact info from Peter Binfield.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At PLoS, we are extending our ALM app to include Wikipedia citations
>>>> for PLoS articles, but recently came upon an issue, which we’ve
>>>> logged with your developers.
>>>>
>>>>
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32026
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The gist of it is that the Wiki API has a limitation of 100 returns.
>>>> For PLoS articles that are referenced more than 100 times, we get
>>>> back a different set of results each time. Some of the same sources
>>>> are returned, some new ones. Although we have the total number of
>>>> citations, we do not know if we are capturing all of them, even
if
we
>>>> run the query many times over. Seems
likely that there could be a
>>>> more efficient way of pulling the exhaustive set. The bug report
explains the technical details.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Although there was some initial contact with a Wiki developer,
>>>> activity seems to have stopped. Do you have any suggestions on how
>>>> to proceed at this point in time? We are very eager to add
Wikipedia
>>>> as an ALM source given its importance
to the research community
at large.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much, Daniel.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, -jlin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jennifer Lin
>>>>
>>>> Public Library of Science, Product Manager
>>>>
>>>> (415) 935-2095
>>>>
>>>> 1160 Battery Street
>>>> Koshland Building East, Suite 100
>>>> San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
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