Forwarding this question on behalf of someone from the Public Library of Science -- please reply both to me and to her, as she's not on the list. Thanks.
>>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Jennifer Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Hi, Daniel. I received your contact info from Peter Binfield. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> At PLoS, we are extending our ALM app to include Wikipedia citations > >>>> for PLoS articles, but recently came upon an issue, which we’ve > >>>> logged with your developers. > >>>> > >>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32026 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> The gist of it is that the Wiki API has a limitation of 100 returns. > >>>> For PLoS articles that are referenced more than 100 times, we get > >>>> back a different set of results each time. Some of the same sources > >>>> are returned, some new ones. Although we have the total number of > >>>> citations, we do not know if we are capturing all of them, even if we > >>>> run the query many times over. Seems likely that there could be a > >>>> more efficient way of pulling the exhaustive set. The bug report explains the technical details. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Although there was some initial contact with a Wiki developer, > >>>> activity seems to have stopped. Do you have any suggestions on how > >>>> to proceed at this point in time? We are very eager to add Wikipedia > >>>> as an ALM source given its importance to the research community at large. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Thanks so much, Daniel. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, -jlin > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Jennifer Lin > >>>> > >>>> Public Library of Science, Product Manager > >>>> > >>>> (415) 935-2095 > >>>> > >>>> 1160 Battery Street > >>>> Koshland Building East, Suite 100 > >>>> San Francisco, CA 94111, USA -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
