On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 15:06, Giovanni Colavizza giovannicolavizza@gmail.com wrote:

we have recently released a dataset which might be of interest to some of you. Wikipedia Citations contains the nearly 30M citations to be found in English Wikipedia (as of May 1st 2020), of which approx. 4M are to scientific publications. Most of these 4M have also been equipped with identifiers (ISBN, DOI, etc.).

We welcome feedback, ideas for collaboration and any question you might have

Thank you. Three thoughts occur to me:

1) It would be good to merge metadata on the 40 million scientific articles (or at least those with identifiers) into Wikidata; this could be done under the WikiCite umbrella.

2) We could use this data, or the tools that extrated it, for quality control - for example, highlighting multiple citations of the same work (say, matched by DOI), with different authors, dates, venues, etc. We could even do some simple data repairs, for example, if an author name in three articles is spelled "Mabbett", but in a fourth it is spelled "Mabbott", then the latter is likely a spelling error.

3) The current model is madness^W inefficient. Citations which call metadata from Wikidata (for example using the 'Cite Q' template [1]) would be far more sensible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_Q