Hi

Would it be a good approach too make a list if items that are clearly
potential main topics (ie all diseases, all materials...) and create a bot
that add these items as main topics if these are un the title ?

Regards



Le jeu. 16 août 2018 à 12:29, Charles Matthews <
[email protected]> a écrit :

> It is now possible to participate in the ScienceSource project, by adding
> "main subject" statements.
>
> The ScienceSource focus list has been up for a little while now at
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ScienceSource_focus_list
>
> which has the shortcut WD:SSFL. Wikidata items about biomedical articles
> can be added to the list as explained on the page, using P5008. That page
> has other links to expository material. The original grant page at
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ScienceSource
>
> give an overview of the project's aims.
>
> The Listeria-generated page
>
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ScienceSource_focus_list/Main_subject_needed
>
> linked from the focus list page shows which of the items on the list
> (which is around 3K now, see the SPARQL query on the talk page WT:SSFL)
> lack a main subject (P921) statement.
>
> At Wikimania I made the clarification that the focus list is supposed to
> be better "balanced" than the selection of articles represented on Wikidata
> as a whole. This is a big issue, but I don't think it is really disputed
> that the existing literature is more interested in the diseases of
> prosperous people and prosperous countries. On a straight utilitarian
> argument about the "greatest good of the greatest number", there is a
> problem.
>
> Therefore, the composition of the focus list should not be a proportionate
> reflection of the 17.5M articles represented in Wikidata, by topic. We are
> looking first to include about 0.2% of articles on the list, bringing it up
> to about 40K. The Listeria page is a sortable table, and if you sort by
> "published in" you'll see plenty from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases -
> thanks to Daniel Mietchen for adding a collection of well-cited papers from
> there.
>
> Later on there should be other lists by topic area, so we can get an idea
> of balance. Once main subjects (where type of disease is the most important
> area) build up, SPARQL aggregates can reveal distribution. This bubble
> chart query
>
> https://tinyurl.com/y89s6nlc
>
> gives a baseline, showing that currently the list's subjects are dominated
> by infectious diseases.
>
> Where next? In the coming weeks, the ScienceSource wiki at
> http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/ will be developed. Text-mining and
> annotation there will be the next phase. Downloading of papers to the wiki
> will depend on accumulating metadata on their Wikidata items.
>
> Charles
>
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