Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on brainstorming a proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations, a WikiCite so to speak, if that is not the eventual name. My plan is to continue to discuss with folks who are knowledgeable and interested in such a project and to have the feedback I receive go into the proposal which I hope to write this summer. This sounds great. Just speaking as a community member, I've been thinking about this topic a long time myself, and have plenty to add to the conversation. The proposal white paper will then be sent around to interested parties for corrections and feedback, including on-wiki and mailing lists, before eventually landing at the Foundation officially. As we know WMF has not started a new project in some years, so there is no official process. Thus I find it important to get it right. I'd suggest finding an on-wiki spot to discuss this work. Here's one place this has been discussed in the past that may be a good place to revive the conversation: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published Rather than commenting on list about the subject itself, I've commented on the discussion page there: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published#Fact_database_6531 Rob Rob, Thanks for bringing my attention to this proposal. It certainly has some of the same ring as this project, with of course some important differences. Commonalities between the projects are that they are multilingual and require a powerful search engine. Differences are that this project is for all literary sources and that I believe it is best suited at the WMF. The widespread use of citations across the Wikipedias will drive user contributions towards adding richer metadata to those citations. And having a source of citations available will increase the quality of the Wikipedias as it becomes easier and easier to cite sources. Brian ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Brian,
The meta process for new project proposals is still the cleanest one
for suggesting a specific Project and presenting it alongside similar
projects.
It would be helpful if you could update a related project proposal on
meta -- say, [[m:WikiBibliography]], if that seems relevant. (I just
cleaned that page up and merged in an older proposal that had been
obfuscated.)
Thanks for your work on this - definitely in the right direction! I will
consider whether I feel it's the right way for me to get started. One point
is that I am pointing more in the direction of a long-form proposal, and I
have more experience writing white-paper proposals for academia. I certainly
want it to end up on wiki, but when TPTB finally read the proposal perhaps
they will find it more persuasive if it is a professional looking document
that lands in their inbox.
Or you can create a new project proposal... WikiCite as a name can be
confusing, since it has been used to refer to this bibliographic idea,
but also to refer to the idea of citations for every statement or fact
- something closer to a blame or trust solution that includes
citations in its transactions.
Another name that I have come up with is OpenScholar. I still rather like
it, but suspect it has too much of a scientific ring to it? Names are
certainly very important so we should do more work on this avenue. Including
a list of names in the proposal would be a good idea, and perhaps the final
name will be a combination of existing name proposals.
We should figure out how this project would work with acawiki, and
possibly bibdex. Bibdex doesn't aim to And it would be helpful to
have a publicly-viewable demo to play with -- could you clone your
current wiki and populate the result with dummy data?
The problem with WikiPapers is that it has too many features! A feature-thin
version would be ideal for the proposal though, so I will plan to have some
kind of a demo site available.
I love the idea of having a global place to discuss citations -- ALL
citations -- something that OpenLibrary, the arXiv, and anyone else
hosting cited documents could point to for every one of its works.
Exactly :)
Brian
Sam.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Brian J Mingus, 19/07/2010 22:20:
The basic idea is a centralized wiki that contains citation information
that
other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something
like a
{{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the
citation,
the author, the book etc.. and, in one idealization, all citations
across
all wikis would point to the same article on WikiCite. Users can use
this
wiki as their personal bibliography as well, as collections of citations
can
be exported in arbitrary citation formats.
I have already mentioned it before, but this description looks quite
similar to http://bibdex.org/ . Maybe we should join forces (i.e., send
your proposal also to Sunir Shah).
Nemo
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.dewrote:
Hi all
A central place for managing Bibliographic data for use with Citations is
something that has been discussed by the German community for a long time.
To
me, it consists of two parts: a project for managing the structured data,
and a
machanism for uzsing that data on the wikis.
I have been working on the latter recently, and there's a working
prototype: on
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/wmde-sandbox-1/Wikipedia:DataTransclusion
you
can see how data records can be included from external sources. A demo for
the
actual on-wiki use can be found at
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/wmde-sandbox-1/Ameisenigel#Literatur,
where
{{ISBN|0868400467}} is used to show the bibliographic info for that book.
(side
note: the prototype wikis are slow. sorry about that).
Fetching and showing the data is done using
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DataTransclusion. Care has been
taken
to make this secure and scalable.
For a first demo, I'm using teh ISBN as the key, but any kind of key could
be
used to reference resources other than books.
For demoing managing the data by ourselves, I have set up ab SMW instance.
An
example bib record is at
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/wmde-bib/ISBN:0451526538, it's used
across
wikis at
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/wmde-sandbox-1/Wikipedia:DataTransclusion.
Note
that changes will show delayed, as the data is cached for a while.
When discussing these things, please keep in mind that there are two
components:
fetching and displaying external data records, and managing structured data
in a
wiki style. The former is much simpler than the latter. I think we should
really
aim at getting both, but we can start off with transclusing external data
much
faster, if we allow no-so-wiki data sources. For ISBN-based queries, we
could
simply fetch information from http://openlibrary.org - or the open
knowledge
foundation's http://bibliographica.org, once it's working.
In the context of bibdex, I recommend to also have a look at
http://bibsonomy.org - it's a university research project, open source,
and is
quite similar to bibdex (and to what citeulike used to be).
As to managing structured data ourselves: I have talked a lot with Erik
Möller
and Markus Krötzsch about this, and I'm in touch with the people wo make
DBpedia
and OntoWiki. Everyone wants this. But it's not simple at all to get it
right
(efficient versioning of multilingual data in a document oriented database,
anyone? want inference? reasoning, even? yay...). So the plan is currently
to
hatch a concrete plan for this. And I imagine that bibliographical and
biographical info will be among the first used cases.
Hi Daniel,
Have you considered that Lucene is the perfect backend for this kind of
project? What kinds of faults do you see with it? At least in my mind, we
can mold it to our needs here. It has the core capabilities found in
Semantic MediaWiki, and it is fast and scalable.
I say this as a serious user of Semantic MediaWiki. I have seen that it
can't scale well without an alternate backend, and I wonder what kind of
monumental effort will be required to make it scale to tens or hundreds of
millions of documents, each of which containing 20-50 properties. Lucene can
already do this, SMW, not so much ;-)
Brian
cheers,
daniel
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Jodi Schneider jodi.schnei...@deri.orgwrote:
Hi Brian,
On 20 Jul 2010, at 18:02, Brian J Mingus wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen f...@imm.dtu.dk wrote:
Hi Brian and others,
I also think that it would be interesting with some bibliographic support,
for two-way citation tracking and commenting on articles (for example), but
I furthermore find that particular in science article we often find data
that is worth structuring and put in a database or a structured wiki, so
that we can extract the data for meta-analysis and specialized information
retrieval. That is what I also do in the Brede Wiki. I use the templates to
store such data. So if such a system as yours is implemented we should not
just think of it as a bibliographic database but in more broader terms: A
data wiki.
Although the technology required to make a WikiCite happen will be
applicable to a more generalized wiki for storing data I think that is too
broad for the current proposal. A WMF analogue to Google Base is an entirely
new beast that has its own requirements. I certainly think it's an
interesting and worthwhile idea, but I don't feel that we are there yet.
As the 'key' (the wiki page title) I use the (lowercase) title of the
article. That might be more reader friendly - but usually longer. I think
that KangHsuKrajbichEtAl09 is too camel-cased. Neither the title nor author
list + year will be unique, so we need some predictable disambig.
I noticed that AcaWiki is using the title, but I am personally not a fan of
it. The motivation for using a key comes from BibTeX. When you cite an entry
in a publication in LaTeX, you type \cite{key}. Also, I think most
bibliographic formats support such a key. The idea is that there is a
universal token that you can type into Google that will lead you to the
right item. The predictable disambig is in the format I sent out (which
likely needs modification for other kinds of sources). The format is
Author1Author2Author3EtAlYYb. Here is a real world example from a pair of
very prolific scientists, Deco Rolls, who published at least three papers
together in 2005. In our lab we have really come to love these keys - they
are very memorable tokens that you can verbally pass on to other scientists
in the midst of a discussion. Eventually, if they enter the key you have
given them into Google, they will get the right entry at WikiCite.
DecoRolls05 - Synaptic and spiking dynamics underlying reward reversal in
the orbitofrontal cortex.
DecoRolls05b - Sequential memory: a putative neural and synaptic dynamical
mechanism.
DecoRolls05c - Attention, short-term memory, and action selection: a
unifying theory.
Citation keys of this sort work, but they have to be decided on by some
external system. Who decides which paper is -, b, and c? Publication order
would be one way to do it -- but that's complicated, especially with online
first publication, or overlapping conferences.
I think whether they're memorable tokens might vary by person... Sure, the
author and year will be identifiable, even memorable. But the a, b, c?
If you want to support more than recent works, I'd urge instead of YY.
Then we only have an issue for pre-0 stuff. :)
Also consider differentiating authors from title and year, perhaps with
slashes.
author1-author2-author3-etal//b
I'm not convinced that -'s are better than capital letters (author last
names can have both)...
The key seems to be a very important point, so it's important that we get it
right. My thinking is guided by several constraints. First, I strongly
dislike the numeric keys used at sites such as CiteULike and most database
sites (such as 7523225). To the greatest degree possible I believe the key
should actually convey what is behind the link. On the other hand, the key
should not be too long. Numeric keys maximize the shortness while telling
you nothing , whereas titles as keys are very long and don't give you some
of the most important information - the authors and the year it was
published. The key format I have suggested does seem to have a flaw, being
that it easily becomes ambiguous and you must resort to a token that is not
easily memorable. Then again, even though many authors and sets of authors
will publish multiple items in a year, the vast majority of works have a
unique set of authors for a given year.
I like your suggestion that the abc disambiguator be chosen based on the
first date of publication, and I also like the prospect of using slashes
since they can't be contained in names. Using the full year is a good idea
too. We can combine these to come up with a key that, in principle, is
guaranteed to be unique. This key would contain:
1) The first three author names separated by slashes
2) If there are more than three authors, an EtAl
3) Some or all of the date. For instance, if there is only one source by
this set of authors
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index
Hi guys! I'm glad my little post helped re-start such a productive conversation. Since some people are replying only to the research-l list and some to both research-l and foundation-l (my fault for cc'ing both) maybe we should centralize this discussion (at least of the nitty gritty metadata issues) on the research list for now? thread here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2010-July/thread.html Of course the perennial issue of how to propose a new WMF project is very much a foundation-l topic. regards, phoebe On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Jodi Schneider jodi.schnei...@deri.org wrote: Hi Brian, On 20 Jul 2010, at 18:02, Brian J Mingus wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen f...@imm.dtu.dk wrote: Hi Brian and others, I also think that it would be interesting with some bibliographic support, for two-way citation tracking and commenting on articles (for example), but I furthermore find that particular in science article we often find data that is worth structuring and put in a database or a structured wiki, so that we can extract the data for meta-analysis and specialized information retrieval. That is what I also do in the Brede Wiki. I use the templates to store such data. So if such a system as yours is implemented we should not just think of it as a bibliographic database but in more broader terms: A data wiki. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)
On 7/15/10 6:23 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: Perhaps in future (for say, Haifa) it would be an idea if any chapter-based scholarships were put on hold until after the Foundation makes its choices? That way the systems could mesh, with people who don't quite meet the Foundation requirements/do but oh dear, we've already used up all our scholarships being forwarded to the chapter for its decision. This year, Wikimedia France voted to approve scholarships to go to Wikimania for a total budget of 5000 euros. This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros. There was no requirement of nationality or location, though we would probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving the scholarship requests and approving them. Scholars had two main obligations : - actually being at the conference :) - report after the conference In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed, which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants had never been as high in a Wikimania. One could certainly state that we are from a rich country and that our scholarships are further digging the divide between rich and poor countries. I would refute that argument. On the 27th of april, Wikimedia France also approved financial participation to help several chapters participate to the chapter meeting in Berlin. The total amount approved was 10 000 euros. Original chapters chosen to be supported were * Wikimedia Argentina * Wikimedia Australia * Wikimedia Hong Kong * Wikimedia Macedonia * Wikimedia UK * Wikimedia Serbia (yes dear) These chapters were chosen in a list of chapters-to-be-supported, with the names of the people expected as well as the amount required for each to come. The choice was made taking into account: 1) the total budget 2) the price of each plane ticket (we picked up on purpose first of all the most expensive tickets) 3) pick up on every continent available 4) and last, when final choice had to be made, indeed, according to the person-to-come (disclaimer: due to the ash mess and a flood mess, some travels were cancelled, so some of the support might have gone to a chapter different than the one originally planned). But bottom line 1) whether people came from rich or poor countries was irrelevant. What was relevant was what they would bring to the table 2) our choice was made in a master table handled by Wikimedia Deutschland... and that made sense to do it this way. - Lessons for next year Wikimania scholarship. 1) I think the French chapter was happy to have made that decision of offering scholarships for Wikimania this year. It came from the statement made at previous Wikimanias that hardly any French speaking person was attending. We meant to increase attendance and it was a success. 2) Whilst it was not discussed yet, postmortem should be made on that and we should check whether it will be relevant to do it again next year. Intuitively, I feel confortable saying that we will do it again. 3) I do not think being French should be a requirement. I however think being French speaking would please us (and the good news is that there are many French speaking countries) 4) We should however clarify our decision making process and include criteria, whatever those might be 5) And yes, though private data would be an issue to take into account, it would be nice to have a sort of common list of scholarship requests or at least one way to have those overlap so that the ones making request and being rejected are informed that other options might be feasible, or chapters are given the contact names of those rejected, and also to check that no one get dual funding (*) I guess having Wikimania website listing all organizations providing scholarships would be a start :) Ant (*) jeee, finally found a way to get rich ! On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Sara Crouse, 15/07/2010 17:24: For the moment, here are the selection criteria that were applied during the application review process: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships#Applicant_Selection_Criteria These were originally on the Wikimania team planning wiki, and not kept private for any specific reason other than that there was no better place to put them. Thank you. A full report documenting the program, processes, results, and lessons learned will be published on meta in September. The report will be open for anyone's critique and recommendations on how things may be improved going forward. Great! Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Private Wiki
Not sure were to ask this... A group of 20 of us from Wikiproject Medicine are working on a paper to explain the usage of Wikipedia to the medical community. We were working on it in Google documents but they have made some changes to their software that makes it nearly unusable. We wish to return to working in the wiki environment but need to do so in a closed environment until after publication. Anyone here able to set something like this up for us? Or have suggestions were we may do so? We were using a private wiki for a bit but its reliability was limited. Thanks -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Private Wiki
On 7/20/2010 7:27 PM, James Heilman wrote: Not sure were to ask this... A group of 20 of us from Wikiproject Medicine are working on a paper to explain the usage of Wikipedia to the medical community. We were working on it in Google documents but they have made some changes to their software that makes it nearly unusable. We wish to return to working in the wiki environment but need to do so in a closed environment until after publication. Anyone here able to set something like this up for us? Or have suggestions were we may do so? We were using a private wiki for a bit but its reliability was limited. Thanks Hi James, Have you checked out http://www.wikimatrix.org/ ? Cary ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
