Hello everyone, my name is Saloni, and I’m a bioinformaticist.

I am interested in integrating scientific literature into Wikipedia. I’m developing software that imports short 3 or 4-sentence summaries from open access articles into appropriate sections of Wikipedia pages. The idea is for readers to have access to open and recent published research and to make Wikipedia a more comprehensive resource.

For example, this paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10906501) describes a clinical study carried out among Latin American women to test a combined injectable contraceptive called Mesigyna. My software is designed to summarize a few sentences from the abstract (Creative Commons license for legal reasons) and integrate it on this page “Combined injectable contraceptive” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_injectable_contraceptive) elaborating on Mesigyna in the Formulations sections.

Ideally, I would like to develop this into a bot so that users don’t have to manually add information.  I would really appreciate any guidance and guidelines on implementing this and how to get approval from the Wikipedia community.

 

I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions.

Best regards,

Saloni

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