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Hello, Abigail Wood, and welcome to Wikipedia!

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I look forward to seeing you about the MCB and CompBio pages. On an additional note, I can recommend this slightly more in-depth tutorial series: Help:Introduction. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 23:11, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

''Facto Post'' – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

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=Milestone for mix'n'match=

Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match mix'n'match] tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, {{noping|Magnus Manske}}, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=114 end of 2013], mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

=Links=

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  • [https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/wikipedia-goes-3d-allowing-users-upload-stls-digital-reference-129340/ Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference], Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRK_MltUezA&feature=youtu.be&t=236 WikiCite report (video)]
  • [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185065 Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset], see [https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967064062616981504 Twitter post], February 23 2018
  • [http://dataviz-literacy.wmflabs.org/#section-introduction Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters], workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
  • [https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/02/12/using-wikidata/ Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos], Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
  • [https://longair.net/blog/2017/11/29/sparql-wikidata/ Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata!] Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
  • [http://www.zdnet.com/article/back-to-the-future-does-graph-database-success-hang-on-query-language/ Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?], George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

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=The 100 Skins of the Onion=

[https://i4oc.org/news.html#April2018 Open Citations Month], with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/03/22/releasing-1-8-million-open-access-publications-from-publisher-systems-for-text-and-data-mining/ recent LSE IMPACT blogpost] puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.

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From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

=Links=

  • [https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2s234 Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus], CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
  • [https://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Scholarly_Article_Citations/1299540 Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset]
  • [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/29/increasing-visibility-women-with-wikidata/ Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!], Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
  • [https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/03/28/the-power-of-the-wikimedia-movement-beyond-wikimedia/#1aa669e75a75 The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia], Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
  • [https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/03/26/tracing-stolen-bitcoin/ Tracing stolen bitcoin], blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

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=ScienceSource funded=

The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from [http://contentmine.org/ ContentMine] on May 18. See the [https://twitter.com/TheContentMine/status/997574058727354370 ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video].

;A medical canon?

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

=Links=

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  • d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going
  • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/search?q=hus Ordia tool], a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms
  • OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata
  • d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports
  • [https://www.ifla.org/node/47354 #1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018], IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

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;Respecting MEDRS

Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{tl|medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this [http://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=4902034 Petscan query] finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

File:Research design and evidence.svgs, from WP:MEDRS]]

;Links

  • [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3FleagueLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fleague%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16466010.%20%23%20a%20football%20match%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20wdt%3AP361%2a%20wd%3AQ170645.%20%23%20that%27s%20part%20of%20the%202018%20World%20Cup%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20p%3AP1363%20%3Fstmt.%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20we%20want%20the%20details%20of%20goals%0A%20%20%3Fstmt%20ps%3AP1363%20%3Fscorer.%20%20%20%20%23%20who%20scored%0A%20%20%3Fscorer%20p%3AP54%20%3Fstmt1.%0A%20%20%3Fstmt1%20ps%3AP54%20%3Fteam.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20teams%20have%20they%20played%20for%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fstmt1%20pq%3AP582%20%5B%5D%7D%20%23%20no%20end%20time%20%3D%3E%20player%20is%20still%20playing%20for%20team%0A%20%20%3Fteam%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ476028.%20%23%20we%20only%20want%20domestic%20teams%0A%20%20%3Fteam%20wdt%3AP118%20%3Fleague.%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20league%20do%20they%20play%20in%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FleagueLabel%20%3Fleague%0A World Cup scorers bubble chart, by the league in which they play], query run on Wikidata
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2537%20.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP575%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20de%2C%20fr%2C%20es%2C%20it%2C%20cz%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20 Timeline of discoveries of natural satellites in the solar system], query run on Wikidata
  • [https://blog.library.wales/?p=17811 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata], National Library of Wales blogpost 27 June 2018, by {{noping|Jason.nlw}}
  • [https://www.haykranen.nl/2018/06/15/the-deaditors-of-wikipedia/ ''The "deaditors" of Wikipedia], Hay Kranen blogpost, 15 June 2018
  • [https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008295163616165888 Six dimensions of open access, polemical tweet], 17 June 2018


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

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;Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report

Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

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Facto Post interviewed {{noping|Jdforrester}}, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with [https://whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-the-internet-conference/ Whose Knowledge?] can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".

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;Links

  • ScienceSource focus list (shortcut WD:SSFL on Wikidata), project to tag a first-pass open access medical bibliography on Wikidata, and also overcome the systematic biases in the medical literature by curation.
  • [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia/ Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia], Wikimedia Foundation blogpost 18 July 2018.
  • [http://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/wikipedias-upcoming-cape-town-conference-will-tackle-issue-diversity Wikipedia's upcoming Cape Town conference will tackle the issue of diversity], Jamie Matroos, 2 July 2018.
  • [https://www.videowiki.org/ VideoWiki], a video version of Wikipedia.
  • [http://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/07/14/search-full-text-within-4m-books/ Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books], by MEK, The Open Library Blog, 14 July 2018
  • [https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/More-than-5000-German-scientists-have-published-papers-in-pseudo-scientific-journals,fakescience178.html More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals], NDR, 19 July 2018.


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8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: entries open!

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8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: entries open!

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and WikiProject Computational Biology are pleased to call for participants in the 8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition. The ISCB aims to improve the communication of scientific knowledge to the public at large, and Wikipedia plays an increasingly important role in this communication; the ISCB Wikipedia Competition aims to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology. Entries to the competition are open now; the competition closes on 17 May 2019.

For students/trainees: Entry to the competition is open internationally to students and trainees of any level, both as individuals and as groups. Prizes of up to $500 will be awarded to the best contributions as chosen by a judging panel of experts; these will be awarded at the ISMB/ECCB conference in Basel, Switzerland in July 2019. As in previous years, the ISCB encourages competition entries for contributions to Wikipedia in any language.

For teachers/trainers: We encourage you to pass this invitation on to your students, and consider using the competition as part of an in-class assignment.

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''Facto Post'' – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

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;Neglected diseases

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To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's [http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/diseases/en/ neglected diseases], where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

;Links

  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=559 Wikipedia, Wikidata, and citations], a census, August 2 2018, blogpost by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}
  • [http://hangingtogether.org/?p=6775 The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source] August 6, 2018, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on OCLC Research blog
  • [https://janakiev.com/blog/wikidata-mayors/ Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL], August 1 2018, Parametric Thoughts blog
  • [https://hapgood.us/2018/08/09/newspapers-on-wikipedia-update-initial-wikidata-pass/ Newspapers On Wikipedia Update: Initial Wikidata Pass] 9 August 2018, Mike Caulfield
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05053 Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories] Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, arxiv.org, submitted on 15 August 2018


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

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;The science publishing landscape

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In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See [https://w3c.github.io/scholarly-html/ Scholarly HTML] for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the [https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/iau/cornford/cornford7.html principle of unripe time]. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.

File:Научные издания.jpg

;Links

  • [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%0A%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ24909800%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A ImageGrid SPARQL query] for the Art+Feminism focus list on Wikidata. Run and then scroll ...
  • The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/?#/ TABernacle tool] for Wikidata editing, by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}, has been upgraded. [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/?#/tab/sparql/SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ55439927%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D/P921 Demo] with the ScienceSource focus list and main subjects: with a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/ WiDar login] you can edit directly in the table cells.
  • [http://enslaved.org/ Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade], Michigan State University project for a linked open data platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature."
  • As the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project [https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74515029 finishes its initial two-year cycle] and moves into LD4P2, a [https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/LD4P/Registry+of+Tools list] of its BIBFRAME and other RDF tools.
  • [https://www.slideshare.net/heikopaulheim/machine-learning-with-and-for-semantic-web-knowledge-graphs Machine Learning with and for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs], detailed slide pack by Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim.
  • [https://futurism.com/open-access-science-europe/ In Europe, Scientists Need to Share Their Research for Free if They Want Government Funding], Futurism, by Kristin House, 5 September 2018.


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

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;Wikidata imaged

Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.

Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.

File:Gran Teatro Cáceres.JPG

It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1543%20%3Fpic.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%7D this query] allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.

And so it is generally. [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ18610173.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D The list] of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.

Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.

File:Logo sixth Wikidata Birthday.png

;Links

  • Now Wikidata is six, Signpost Special Report
  • [https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/1053274139757342720 Find out how @TheContentMine are attempting to mine scientific and medical literature to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia.], Wikimedia UK tweet and video ScienceSource and the Semantic Web
  • [https://github.com/tmtmtmtm/sciencesource-pmc-licenses sciencesource-pmc-licenses tool] by {{noping|Oravrattas}} to extract Creative Commons license information from PubMed Central pages, created at the Cambridge Wikidata Workshop
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoordinates%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%20%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcoordinates%20%3Fline%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FconnectLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fopening%20%3Frgb%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%28sample%28%3Flat1%29%20as%20%3Flat1%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon1%29%20as%20%3Flon1%29%20%28sample%28%3Fopening%29%20as%20%3Fopening%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14562709%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates%20%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1619%20%3Fopening%20%7D.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fnextstation%20%28sample%28%3Flat2%29%20as%20%3Flat2%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon2%29%20as%20%3Flon2%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14562709%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fnextstation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25nextstations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fline%20%3Fconnect%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25nextstations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP197%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fnextstation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20pq%3AP81%20%3Fconnect%20.%20%3Fconnect%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ20075%20%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fconnect%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STR%28%3Fitem%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3Fnextstation%29%29%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25lines%20%0A%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20%7D%20%20UNION%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25lines%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Whizzy use of SPARQL] to map the London Underground system, whizzed past on Twitter.
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fdate%20%3Fpage%0AWHERE%20%7B%0Awd%3AQ56458770%20p%3AP276%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP276%20%3Flocation.%0A%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP856%20%3Fpage.%0A%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Wikidata birthday events mapped by SPARQL, too]
  • d:Wikidata:Sixth Birthday/Message from dev team


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

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;WikiCite issue

GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.

File:Wikidata education for librarians group at WikiCite 2018.jpg

In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.

Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.

;Links

  • [https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/16690/Lemus-Rojas_Pintscher_Wikidata_2017-07-03.pdf?sequence=1 Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge], book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018)
  • LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
  • [https://scriptotek.github.io/library-shell/ Shell Lessons for Librarians], Library Carpentry lesson
  • [http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2018/at-risk-content-on-flickr/ At-risk content on Flickr], blogpost 3 November 2018, {{noping|Andrew Gray}}
  • [http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia_whitepaper.pdf Toward an Abstract Wikipedia], recent white paper by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google)


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

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;Learning from Zotero

Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based [https://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages language support].

File:Zotero logo.png

Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the [https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/zotkat zotkat tool] from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects.

File:Zotero-demo-wikipedia.webm

There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/import.php mix'n'match import] community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine.

Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.

;Links

  • [https://www.zotero.org/blog/2018/10/ Zotero Comes to Google Docs], Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018.
  • :Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero
  • {{phab|T115158}} Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production, long Phabricator thread 2015–17.
  • [https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators Zotero Translators], documentation from zotero.org.
  • [https://github.com/zotero/translators Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript]
  • [https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/Wikisource.js Example translator], for Wikisource.
  • m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

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;Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

File:Voice Search Amazon Echo vs Google.webm device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone]]

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

;Links

  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day for 18th birthday celebrations
  • [https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaUK WMUK video page], with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy)
  • [https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/wikipedia-doctors-medical-knowledge-study.html Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior], Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, Slate
  • [https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/celebrities/news/a26057928/olivia-colman-reveals-struggle-wikipedia-age/ Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age], Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com
  • [http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/01/23/making-wikidata-visible/ Making Wikidata visible], Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=604 Inventory], Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by Cleveland Museum of Art


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Hello, this is a reminder that the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and WikiProject Computational Biology are currently calling for participants in the 8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition. The ISCB aims to improve the communication of scientific knowledge to the public at large, and Wikipedia plays an increasingly important role in this communication; the ISCB Wikipedia Competition aims to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology. Entries to the competition are open now; the competition closes on 17 May 2019.

For students/trainees: Entry to the competition is open internationally to students and trainees of any level, both as individuals and as groups. Prizes of up to $500 will be awarded to the best contributions as chosen by a judging panel of experts; these will be awarded at the ISMB/ECCB conference in Basel, Switzerland in July 2019. As in previous years, the ISCB encourages competition entries for contributions to Wikipedia in any language.

For teachers/trainers: Please pass this invitation on to your students! We also encourage you to consider using the competition as part of an in-class assignment.

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''Facto Post'' – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

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;What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

File:PRISMA flow diagram.jpg

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

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  • [https://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/ebm/appraise Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise], resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives.
  • [https://www.badscience.net/2014/11/what-should-cochrane-do-next/#more-3288 What should Cochrane do next?], Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre.
  • [https://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/events/sciencesource-workshop-how-do-scientific-discoveries-become-clinical-medicine Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?], [http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org ScienceSource] workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-do-scientific-discoveries-become-clinical-medicine-festival-workshop-tickets-56499051183 on Eventbrite] for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane.
  • [http://www.prisma-statement.org/Protocols/Registration PROSPERO database] of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols.
  • [https://marc.info/?t=115902699800001&r=3&w=2 Process wonkery thread], wikien-l mailing list, September 2006.
  • [https://xkcd.com/1447/ Meta-Analysis], xkcd cartoon.


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''Facto Post'' – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

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;When in the cloud, do as the APIs do

Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook.

File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg]]

The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API.

APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web.

Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.

;Links

  • [http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4795929 Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative], 2016 paper by {{noping|Andrawaag}} and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata
  • [https://www.digitalflapjack.com/blog/2018/11/25/working-with-wikibase-from-go Working With Wikibase From Go], Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for [http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org ScienceSource] using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=608 Dealing with the Rust], Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API
  • mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki
  • wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information
  • [https://xkcd.com/1481/ xkcd cartoon, API Guide]


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Hello, this is to let you know that entries for the 8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition are closing soon! The ISCB aims to improve the communication of scientific knowledge to the public at large, and Wikipedia plays an increasingly important role in this communication; the ISCB Wikipedia Competition aims to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology. Entries to the competition are open now; the competition closes on 17 May 2019.

For students/trainees: Entry to the competition is open internationally to students and trainees of any level, both as individuals and as groups. Prizes of up to $500 will be awarded to the best contributions as chosen by a judging panel of experts; these will be awarded at the ISMB/ECCB conference in Basel, Switzerland in July 2019. As in previous years, the ISCB encourages competition entries for contributions to Wikipedia in any language.

For teachers/trainers: Please pass this invitation on to your students! We also encourage you to consider using the competition as part of an in-class assignment.

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''Facto Post'' – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

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;Completely clouded?

File:Cloud computing icon.svg

Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.

Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around.

Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.

What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.

;Links

  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by {{noping|Headbomb}}.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1
  • d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata.
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Quackwatch%20filter%3A%20finds%20focus%20list%20items%20that%20are%20published%20in%20journals%20in%20the%20%22Journals%20%28Fundamentally%20Flawed%29%22%0A%23section%20of%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quackwatch.org%2F04ConsumerEducation%2Fnonrecperiodicals.html.%0A%23Matching%20to%20Wikidata%20carried%20out%20on%202019-04-09%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fjournal%20%3FjournalLabel%0A%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ55439927%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Fjournal.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fjournal%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7Bwd%3AQ15754497%20wd%3AQ15279374%20wd%3AQ27720778%20wd%3AQ15756796%20wd%3AQ6294757%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ15752906%20wd%3AQ27711374%20wd%3AQ10310914%20wd%3AQ15760198%20wd%3AQ10310916%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D SPARQL query for Quackwatch]: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the [https://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecperiodicals.html Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals"], under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)".
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FjournalLabel%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ45182324%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Fjournal.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata].
  • d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central.


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8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: deadline extended!

Hi {{ping|Abigail Wood}} thanks for signing up as a participant in the 8th ISCB Wikipedia competition. I'm getting in touch with each participant now to let you know that the period for eligible edits has been extended, to 28th June 2019, eight weeks from now. On behalf of the organizers, I'd like to encourage you to make the most of this extended editing period: as a reminder, your claimed article is Pan-genome. If you've any questions or comments, I'd be happy to read them on my talk page, or on the competition talk page. Thanks, and good luck! Amkilpatrick (talk) 06:59, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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;Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view

Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while.

It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining).

Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.

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;Links for participation

  • http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue.

Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to {{noping|Charles Matthews}} in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos.


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