1. I was thinking of a tool that would let users input a variety of ways of referring to the retracted articles, such as DOI numbers (Peaceray is an expert in these). The tool would accept multiple inputs simultaneously, such as all 64 articles that were retracted in a batch. The tool would return to the user a list of all articles in which those references are used as citations, and highlight the paragraphs of the article where the citations are used. This would, I hope, greatly improve the efficiency of the workflow for dealing with retracted journal articles.
2. I'm not clear on where I should list a new idea. The list of ideas in Community Tech team/All Our Ideas/Process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/All_Our_Ideas/Process> is based on a survey that has already been completed. Is there a Phabricator workboard that would be appropriate for listing a new idea such as this? 3. I would prefer to have everyone using the same system, which is lists.wikimedia.org. It makes sense to me that everyone might migrate eventually to a newer system. I suggest avoiding fragmentation. Researching the possibility of migrating all mailing lists to a newer system sounds like a good project for Community Tech and I could propose that in Phabricator as well if there's a good place to do so. Thanks, Pine On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> 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 <tba...@wikimedia.org> >> 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 <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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
