Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Pine W 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 >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

Ryan, can we get an update about when https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey will be launched? Thanks! Pine On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On 08/18/2015 05:42 AM, Pine W 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

Per earlier discussion in this thread... New mailing list created: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/community-tech The old mailing list will be deleted shortly. On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Tilman Bayer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

Ryan Kaldari wrote: Per earlier discussion in this thread... New mailing list created: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/community-tech The old mailing list will be deleted shortly. Thanks! MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

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. Ryan, you seem to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

Related discussion from 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Archive_26#Creating_a_bot_to_search_Wikipedia_for_retracted_papers (afaics it resulted in the creation of the {{retracted}} template, but no bot) The Community Tech team has its own mailing list now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

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

[Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Researching the possibility of migrating all mailing lists to a newer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Researching the possibility of migrating all mailing lists to a newer system sounds like a good project for Community Tech I've been pushing to keep the team focused on things that can show a direct impact on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Researching the possibility of migrating all mailing lists to a newer system sounds like a good project for Community Tech I've been pushing to keep

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

Hi! 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