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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Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 13:41:08 +0200
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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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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(a)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
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On 27 May 2015 at 08:49, Saloni Agrawal <saloniagrawal(a)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
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