On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
- I was thinking of a tool that would let users input a variety of ways
of referring to the retracted articles, such as DOI numbers (Peaceray is an expert in these). The tool would accept multiple inputs simultaneously, such as all 64 articles that were retracted in a batch. The tool would return to the user a list of all articles in which those references are used as citations, and highlight the paragraphs of the article where the citations are used. This would, I hope, greatly improve the efficiency of the workflow for dealing with retracted journal articles.
Sounds like a reasonable proposal, although I have to wonder if the time spent building and maintaining this tool would be more or less than the time it would save editors to search for retracted journal articles.
- I'm not clear on where I should list a new idea. The list of ideas in Community
Tech team/All Our Ideas/Process https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/All_Our_Ideas/Process is based on a survey that has already been completed. Is there a Phabricator workboard that would be appropriate for listing a new idea such as this?
Community Tech is currently only accepting new tasks related to the All Our Ideas survey results ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/All_Our_Ideas). We will be opening up a new survey next month though ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey...). In the meantime, you can post the idea at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech_project_ideas to get more input on it. More details about all of this will be announced hopefully next week.
- I would prefer to have everyone using the same system, which is
lists.wikimedia.org. It makes sense to me that everyone might migrate eventually to a newer system. I suggest avoiding fragmentation. Researching the possibility of migrating all mailing lists to a newer system sounds like a good project for Community Tech and I could propose that in Phabricator as well if there's a good place to do so.
That's a pretty good point. I'll request to have the mailing list moved to lists.wikimedia.org.