Hello everyone, Thanks a lot for all your great suggestions and comments. I appreciate your insights.
Stuart - that's a really good point. One quick way to ensure the bot isn't adding information that's already there is by checking if the source article has already been cited on that specific Wikipedia page. If the citation is already present on that page, then users could potentially check if the new content is redundant.
Edward - I read about Open Access Reader and I think it's a great initiative. I could contribute to this project by providing summaries, citation information, and the target page section to insert the summary into. We could crowdsource the 'integration' step.
Lane - thanks a lot for all your great ideas. I would be interested in discussing options 3 and 4 in further detail. Option 3 - Talk pages would be a great platform for directly posting the summaries. Volunteers could help with the integration process. Option 4 - Do you have any suggestions on where we could post information on Wikipedia? Volunteers could propose where to post and / or my bot could propose possible page sections for volunteers to choose from. This will definitely serve as a useful continuous feedback loop.
Pierre-Carl - I understand the Open Access Project OA-signalling tool is working on annotating whether citations refer to open access articles or not. That initiative could definitely help identify the OA citations for each articles. Is there any other way to determine this currently?
I look forward to hearing from all of you.
Best, Saloni
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 13:41:08 +0200 From: Pierre-Carl Langlais pierrecarl.langlais@gmail.com To: openaccess@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [OpenAccess] Integrating scientific literature into Wikipedia Message-ID: 5565AD54.3000701@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
Hi everyone,
I think an interesting first trial would be to select automatically retrieve relevant OA bibliographies for each articles. As an experienced wikipedian, I can testify that searching for references might be a time-consuming activity, especially whenever I'm dealing with a topic I don't know fully well. This kind of feature would allow to focus on the actual writing.
Greetings,
PCL
Le 27/05/15 13:34, Lane Rasberry a écrit :
Hello,
Here are some options. We could talk more about any of them.
- A bot which created new Wikipedia articles about certain well reported clinical trials would probably be more feasible than putting sentences into Wikipedia health articles.
- If you actually want to put content into existing articles, there probably is no way for your team learning how to do this without someone close to you spending about 40 hours on Wikipedia learning community practice. Wikipedia is the world's most consulted source of health information and takes itself seriously in this space.
- If you want the easiest path, make the bot exactly as you say, but have it post to article talk pages so that a human volunteer can preview the content and integrate it into the Wikipedia article manually.
- If you want to trial this, have the bot post information in a list anyone on or off Wikipedia and let volunteers choose where to post this. If you do this you would get feedback on what works and how it works.
yours,
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Edward Saperia <ed@wikimanialondon.org mailto:ed@wikimanialondon.org> wrote:
Very interesting! I've been working on a project that is related, but uses humans to do summarising and inserting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenAccessReader *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org/%3E
email <mailto:ed@wikimanialondon.org> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 27 May 2015 at 08:49, Saloni Agrawal <saloniagrawal@gmail.com <mailto:saloniagrawal@gmail.com>> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess _______________________________________________ OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org>
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