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@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
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