Integrating scientific literature into Wikipedia - OpenAccess

27 May 2015

Hello everyone, my name is Saloni, and I’m a bioinformaticist.

I am interested in integrating scientific literature into Wikipedia. I’m
developing software that imports short 3 or 4-sentence summaries from open
access articles into appropriate sections of Wikipedia pages. The idea is
for readers to have access to open and recent published research and to
make Wikipedia a more comprehensive resource.

For example, this paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10906501)
describes a clinical study carried out among Latin American women to test a
combined injectable contraceptive called Mesigyna. My software is designed
to summarize a few sentences from the abstract (Creative Commons license
for legal reasons) and integrate it on this page “Combined injectable
contraceptive” (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_injectable_contraceptive)
elaborating on Mesigyna in the Formulations sections.

Ideally, I would like to develop this into a bot so that users don’t have
to manually add information.  I would really appreciate any guidance and
guidelines on implementing this and how to get approval from the Wikipedia
community.

I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions.

Best regards,

Saloni