On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)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_prioritiz…
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 <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Related discussion from 2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Archive_2…
(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.pine(a)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-f…
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
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