Related discussion from 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Archive_26#Creating_a_bot_to_search_Wikipedia_for_retracted_papers (afaics it resulted in the creation of the {{retracted}} template, but no bot)
The Community Tech team has its own mailing list now btw (https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#!forum/community-tech ). On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any easy way to find all of citations of specified academic > articles on Wikipedias in all languages, and the text that is supported by > those references, so that the citations of questionable articles can be > removed and the article texts can be quickly reviewed for possible changes > or removal? > > See > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/18/outbreak-of-fake-peer-reviews-widens-as-major-publisher-retracts-64-scientific-papers/?tid=hp_mm > > If we don't have easy ways to deal with this (and I believe that we don't), > I'd like to suggest that the Community Tech team work on tools to help when > these situations happen. > > Thanks, > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
