1. 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.
2. 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?
3. 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.
Thanks,
Pine
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the info, Tilman.
I ended up looking at the Community Tech page on MediaWiki, which says
that their scope of work includes "Building article curation and monitoring
tools for WikiProjects", so the kind of tools that we're discussing here
seem to be within their scope.
This project sounds like a good idea, but I don't really understand how it
would work as a tool. There's no API for retracted journal articles. It
seems like the best way to handle it would be when you find out about a
retracted journal article to just search Wikipedia for the title of the
article. What would a tool for this look like and how would it be more
efficient that just searching?
Ryan, you seem to be the lead communicator for
the group. Can you add
these tools to the list of projects that are in the Community Tech backlog?
See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team#Work_input_and_prioritiz…
Also, can you clarify why Community Tech is using
Google Groups for its
mailing list instead of lists.wikimedia.org?
That's what WMF Office IT recommended (probably because it's interface
wasn't developed in 1999). Do you think it should be on
lists.wikimedia.org instead? Personally, it doesn't matter to me.
Thanks,
Pine
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Related discussion from 2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Archive_2…
(afaics it resulted in the creation of the {{retracted}} template, but
no bot)
The Community Tech team has its own mailing list now btw
(
https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#!forum/community-tech
).
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any easy way to find all of citations of
specified academic
articles on Wikipedias in all languages, and the text that is
supported by
those references, so that the citations of
questionable articles can be
removed and the article texts can be quickly reviewed for possible
changes
or removal?
See
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/18/outbreak-of-f…
If we don't have easy ways to deal with this (and I believe that we
don't),
I'd like to suggest that the Community Tech
team work on tools to help
when
these situations happen.
Thanks,
Pine
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