Hey all, it's been a while since we posted a big update on everything that's been happening around WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> on this list. A few people suggested a regular (monthly or quarterly) newsletter would be a good way to keep everyone posted on the latest developments, so I am starting one.
Below are the main highlights for September. I'm cross-posting this to the Wikidata mailing list and hosting the full-text of the WikiCite newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/Newsletter> on Meta. Please add anything I may have missed on the wiki. Copying the full content below, future updates will only include a link to save bandwidth and ugly HTML email. Best, Dario September 2016MilestonesAll English Wikipedia references citing PMCIDs Thanks to Daniel Mietchen <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen>, all references used in English Wikipedia with a *PubMed Central identifier* (P932 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P932>), based on a dataset <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Scholarly_article_citations_in_Wikipedia> produced byAaron Hafaker <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail> using the mwcites <https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwcites> library, have been created in Wikidata. As of today, there are over 110,000 items <https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=P932&lang=en> using this property. Half a million citations using P2860 James Hare <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Harej> has been working on importing open access review papers published in the last 5 years as well as their citation graph. These review papers are not only critical to Wikimedia projects, as sources of citations for Wikipedia articles and statements, but they also open license their contents, which will allow semi-automated statement extraction via text and data mining strategies. As part of this project, the property *cites* (P2860 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2860>) created during WikiCite 2016 has been used in over half a million statements representing citations from one paper to another. While this is a tiny fraction of the entire citation graph, it's a great way of making data available to Wikimedia volunteers for crosslinking statements, sources and the works they cite. New properties The *Crossref funder ID* property (P3153 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3153>) can now be used to represent data on the funders of particular works (when available), which will allow to perform novel analyses on sources for Wikidata statements as a function of particular funders. The *uses property* property (P3176 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3176>), which Finn Årup Nielsen conveniently dubbed <https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/780704357335625728> the "selfie property"*,* can now be used to identify works that mention specific Wikidata properties. EventsWikiCite 2017 Our original plans to host the 2017 edition <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017> of WikiCite in San Francisco in the week of January 16, 2017 (after the Wikimedia Developer Summit) failed due to a major, Salesforce-style conference happening in that week, which will bring tens of thousands of delegates to the city. The WMF Travel team blacklisted that week for hosting events or meetings in SF, since hotel rates will go through the roof. We're now looking at alternative locations and dates in FY-Q4 (April-June 2017) in Europe, most likely Berlin (like this year <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016>), or piggybacking on the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017> in Vienna (May 19-21, 2017), which will give us access to a large number of volunteers as well as WMF and WMDE developers. DocumentationWikiCite 2016 Report A draft report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Report> from WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016> is available on Meta. It will be closed in the coming days with the additional information required by the funders of the event. Book metadata modeling proposal Chiara Storti <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nonoranonqui> and Andrea Zanni <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aubrey> posted a proposal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Books#Wikiproject_Books_2.0> with examples to address in a pragmatic way the complex issues surrounding metadata modeling for books. If you're interested in the topic, please chime in. Outreach [image: File:2016 VIVO Keynote - Dario Taraborelli.webm] <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/2016_VIVO_Keynote_-_Dario_Taraborelli.webm> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016_VIVO_Keynote_-_Dario_Taraborelli.webm> *Verifiable, linked open knowledge that anyone can edit* (VIVO '16) [image: File:Wikidata - Verifiable, Linked Open Knowledge that Anyone Can Edit - frontiers092316 1840.webm] <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Wikidata_-_Verifiable%2C_Linked_Open_Knowledge_that_Anyone_Can_Edit_-_frontiers092316_1840.webm> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_-_Verifiable,_Linked_Open_Knowledge_that_Anyone_Can_Edit_-_frontiers092316_1840.webm> September 23, 2016 presentation at the *NIH Frontiers in Data Science*lecture series. WikiCite, Wikidata and Open Access publishing On September 21, Dario Taraborelli <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DarTar> gave an invited presentation ( slides <https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3956238.v1>) on WikiCite in the*Technology and Innovation* panel at the *8th Annual Conference of the Open Access Publisher Society*(COASP 2016 <http://oaspa.org/conference/coasp-2016-program/>) in Arlington, VA. The presentation triggered a discussion on the availability of open citation data. In collaboration with Jennifer Lin (*Crossref*) we discovered that out of 999 publishers already depositing citation data to Crossref, only 28 (3%) make this data open <https://twitter.com/Wikicite/status/778981659836284929>. We urged publishers <https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/778982308237938688>, particularly Open Access publishers and OASPA members, to release this data that's critical to initiatives such as WikiCite. Linking sources and expert curation in Wikidata: NIH lecture On September 23, Dario Taraborelli <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DarTar> also gave a longer presentation at the National Institutes of Health <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIH>(NIH) in Bethesda, MD, on September 23, mostly focused on the integration of expert-curated statements (such as those created by members of the Gene Wiki project <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wiki>) and source metadata in Wikidata, as part of the *NIH Frontiers in Data Science lecture series <https://datascience.nih.gov/community/datascience-at-nih/frontiers>*. ( video <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_-_Verifiable,_Linked_Open_Knowledge_that_Anyone_Can_Edit_-_frontiers092316_1840.webm> , slides <https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3850821.v1>) This is a slightly modified version of the VIVO '16 closing keynote <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016_VIVO_Keynote_-_Dario_Taraborelli.webm>, targeted at the biomedical science community. So what can we use WikiCite for? Finn Årup Nielsen <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fnielsen> wrote a blog post <https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/so-what-can-we-use-wikicite-for/> showcasing different ways in which a repository of source metadata could be used. WikiCite at WMF Monthly Metrics On September 29, a short retrospective on WikiCite was presented during the September 2016 Wikimedia Monthly Activity and Metrics Meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings/2016-09> (livestream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_grZDl3TJFc&t=1870>) Grant proposals Three proposals closely-related to WikiCite are applying for funding through Wikimedia Grants <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications>: WikiFactMine WikiFactMine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikiFactMine> is a proposal by the ContentMine team to harvest the scientific literature for facts and recommend them for inclusion in Wikidata. Librarybase Librarybase <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Harej/Librarybase:_an_online_reference_library> is a proposal to build an "online reference library" for WIkimedia contributors, leveraging Wikidata. StrepHit The StrepHit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal> team submitted a grant renewal application to support semi-automated reference recommendation for Wikidata statements. Data releasesFirst release of the Open Citation Corpus The OpenCitations project <http://opencitations.net/> announced the first release <https://twitter.com/opencitations/status/780398561607442434> of the Open Citation Corpus <http://opencitations.net/corpus>, an "open repository of scholarly citation data made available under a Creative Commons public domain dedication (CC0), which provides accurate bibliographic references harvested from the scholarly literature that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse for any purpose, without restriction under copyright or database law." The OpenCitation project uses provenance and SPARQL for tracking changes in the data <http://rawgit.com/essepuntato/opencitations/master/paper/occ-driftalod2016.html> . Data on DOI citations in Wikipedia from Crossref Crossref <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossref> recently announced <https://twitter.com/Wikicite/status/780763142737453056> the beta version of the Crossref Event Data user guide <http://eventdata.crossref.org/guide/>, which provides information on mentions of Digital Object Identifiers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Object_Identifiers> (DOI) across non-scholarly sources. The guide includes a detailed overview <http://eventdata.crossref.org/guide/#wikipedia> of how the system collects and stores DOI citations from Wikimedia projects, and how this data can be programmatically retrieved via the Crossref APIs. Code releasesConverting Wikidata entries to BibTeX ContentMine fellow Lars Willghagen announced a tool <https://larsgw.blogspot.nl/2016/09/citationjs-on-command-line.html> combining Citation.js with Node.js, which allows, among other things, to convert a list of bibliographic entries stored as Wikidata items into a BibTex file. ResearchFinding news citations for Wikipedia Besnik Fetahu <http://www.l3s.de/~fetahu/> (Leibniz University of Hannover) presented his research on news citation recommendations for Wikipedia at the Wikimedia Research showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#September_2016> (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/BesnikFetahu/finding-news-citations-for-wikipedia> , video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDkVeqjw80>). In his own words, "in this work we address the problem of finding and updating news citations for statements in entity pages. We propose a two-stage supervised approach for this problem. In the first step, we construct a classifier to find out whether statements need a news citation or other kinds of citations (web, book, journal, etc.). In the second step, we develop a news citation algorithm for Wikipedia statements, which recommends appropriate citations from a given news collection." DBpedia Citation Challenge Krzysztof Węcel <http://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en/member/krzysztof-wecel> (Poznań University of Economics and Business <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_University_of_Economics_and_Business>) presented his research (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/KrzysztofWecel/dbpedia-citation-challenge-not-only-polish-citations-in-wikipedia-analysis-comparison-directions>) in response to the DBpedia Citations and References Challenge <http://wiki.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-citations-references-challenge>, analyzing content in Belarusian, English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and showing how citation analysis can improve the modeling of quality of Wikipedia articles.
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