On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the info, Tilman. > > I ended up looking at the Community Tech page on MediaWiki, which says > that their scope of work includes "Building article curation and monitoring > tools for WikiProjects", so the kind of tools that we're discussing here > seem to be within their scope. >
This project sounds like a good idea, but I don't really understand how it would work as a tool. There's no API for retracted journal articles. It seems like the best way to handle it would be when you find out about a retracted journal article to just search Wikipedia for the title of the article. What would a tool for this look like and how would it be more efficient that just searching? > Ryan, you seem to be the lead communicator for the group. Can you add > these tools to the list of projects that are in the Community Tech backlog? > See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team#Work_input_and_prioritization_process > Also, can you clarify why Community Tech is using Google Groups for its > mailing list instead of lists.wikimedia.org? > That's what WMF Office IT recommended (probably because it's interface wasn't developed in 1999). Do you think it should be on lists.wikimedia.org instead? Personally, it doesn't matter to me. > Thanks, > > Pine > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Tilman Bayer >> Senior Analyst >> Wikimedia Foundation >> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
