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@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@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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