On the subject of DOIs, I just spotted this (related) announcement from Altmetrics:
http://www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/
"We capture [Wikipedia use] as a mention and add it to the details page for that output. Users can then click on the heading to be taken to the original Wikipedia article, on the username of the person who wrote the mention to see their profile on Wikipedia, and on the date stamp to view the edit record for that article. ... Because we’re looking for lots of different identifiers and have some constraints around auditability – every mention we collect has to have an author and a timestamp – we wrote our own system to get the data out in the format we need but we’re hoping to share tips, approaches and data with others in the community."
So looks like they've independently created a similar method, which - reading between the lines - is picking up DOIs as well as PMIDs, etc.
Andrew.
On 3 February 2015 at 17:28, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Nemo
The dataset currently includes the first known occurrence of a PMID or PMCID citation in an English Wikipedia article and the associated revision metadata, based on the most recent complete content dump of English Wikipedia.
Do you accepted patches for inclusion of other wikis? The easiest way to include all Wikimedia projects is probably to use the external links table, we can see how big a difference there is.
we definitely welcome patches and pull requests [1]. This is our current priority list (subject to other priorities unrelated to this project):
- add other identifiers (DOIs are next)
- include other languages / projects
- generate recurring reports (e.g. once a month)
Aaron, does that sound about right? Also note that other people on this list (Max, Daniel) are working on real-time reporting of DOI citations in collaboration with CrossRef.
D
[1] https://github.com/halfak/Extract-scholarly-article-citations-from-Wikipedia _______________________________________________ OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess