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fnielsen is Finn Årup Nielsen, Lyngby, Denmark, - an engineer.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience

Hey, I notice you have worked on neuroscience-related articles in the past. I'm reviving the Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience and thought you might care to join. Cheers. Semiconscious (talk · home) 09:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Free will

Hi Fnielsen, I noticed that you had added a section to the Free will article, quite some time ago (Dec. 28, 2004). The article has come up for FAR and one of the editors specifically commented on the section on Tourette's that you added (it seems like it's gotten wikified a bit since then, but not much else has changed). My PhD is in neurosicence/cognitive science, and I sort of see where you are going there, but I thought that you might want to add, expand, or comment on your addition. I am happy to work with you on this, if you can help us keep Free will as an FA. If you are interested, you can reply either to my talk page, or to the free will talk page. Thanks Edhubbard 11:42, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fnielsen, Thanks for your comments on the free will disucssion page. I think I see what you were after with these comments, and I have tried to expand them to clarify my interpretation of your arguments. However, it should be noted that this section, and to a certain extent, the section above on neuroscience and free will, assume a certain viewpoint, namely that the brain creates our sense of free will, and it is only a matter of knowing whether this occurs before, after, or even independently of our actions. This being a philosophy entry, such assumptions are bound to provoke controversy, and perhaps would justify either eliminating or forking some of this more complex (and loaded) material. Let's see what the other editors have to say, and of course, if I've misinterpreted you, please feel free to correct anything that I've added. Edhubbard 00:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics

Hello. Could you add any new statistics articles that you create to the list of statistical topics?

On another matter: At concordance correlation coefficient the notation is not defined. Michael Hardy 03:30, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Escitalopram (Format of cite journal template)

Hi, whilst there is indeed nothing wrong with your edit, giving full journal names (vs abbrevations) is quite standard in biomedical journals. Indeed the British Medical Journal has formally renamed itself to the abbreviation "BMJ" (see Talk:British Medical Journal) !

Markup was generated through Dibberi's excellent tool http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/ which takes PMID abstract numbers from PubMed database (or indeed ISBNs for books etc). David Ruben ^Talk 23:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link to the Wikipedia template filling web-service. I tend to write full journal name with link to the wikipedia article for the journal. Full journal name seems also to be recommended by Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines — fnielsen (talk) 18:21, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I have extended the article a bit and removed the deletion tag. — fnielsen (talk) 15:20, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citation => cite journal

Why change the citation templates on Henrik Svensmark to cite journal? As far as i can see the Citation template is superior, since it understands the difference between a link to the article where its located, and a link to another article. This means that you don't have to change the format of (or add) author-link, when you copy a citation to another article. Is there a MoS guideline that i'm not aware of? --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 20:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I not sure what you mean. I link to its own page will result in a bold. I don't think it is a property of the template — fnielsen (talk) 23:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! You are right. Sorry - i thought it was a feature of the template. Ok, no objections anymore. Even though i like the Citation template better for its features - but now its pure personal preferences ;-) --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 01:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I extended the article a bit and argued for him on the talk page, so now he seems to be ok. — fnielsen (talk) 18:39, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SNPs - going too far?

I notice you created {{Infobox Single nucleotide polymorphism}} and a raft of articles using it. I have great difficulty imagining the need for articles on every known SNP in a general purpose encyclopedia. I was hoping you could comment on this. JFW | T@lk 17:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are already thousands of pages on individual genes. One of the SNPs that I have added (Arg506Gln) are mentioned in close to thousand articles according to Google Scholar [1]. Personal genomics and personalized medicine make it very likely that not just genetics researchers want to look up information about individual SNPs, but patients and "normals" would expect SNP information to be available in a general purpose encyclopedia. — fnielsen (talk) 18:37, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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"it only contains the site's name": Yes, of course! It was so that I could write on the dicussion page, and explain the reason for that it should be reestablished. And wow now that is gone too! I did source the website with a reference to the well-known journal Science which reported on the SNPedia web-site [2]. A further source is [3] — fnielsen (talk) 16:45, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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causes of schizophrenia personality section

Hi, I've had a go at making the personality section more relevant by explicitly calling it causes of delusions the first section on HVA refers to schizophrenia itself. I'll take the tag off, but won't be offended if you delete or whatever. Notpayingthepsychiatrist (talk) 10:46, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, (regarding version [4] of Causes of schizophrenia) I let you work on it. Here are some suggestions: A bit more context. Are the study presented general oppinions or statements from individual researchers? Formating of reference and punctuation marks. Why are delusion in PD interesting for schizophrenia? The Gender Identity Disorder delusion is just a single unusual case and can hardly be called on to confirm anything. — fnielsen (talk) 11:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Determining the number of clusters

I wanted to give you a heads up on this before continuing since you went to the trouble of attempting to bring the section into the realm of reality.

The issue that remains is this diagram is not used for clusters, which are merely the groupings of elements for each cluster produced by expanding the subset into a multiset.

What K stands is the number of attributes in the subset. The way it is determined with modern computers is by fist setting it to one and doing a multiset count for each attributes, then proceeding to sort attributes in descending order, increase K to a value of 2 and find the multiset for $V^{K}$ for each remaining attribute in the group, sorting again, increasing the value of K again and so on until 100% separation is achieved or a time limit expires or computing capacity is exceeded.

Optimal Classification —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.3.239 (talk) 18:33, 12 September 2008 (UTC) [reply]

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Hi Finn - 71.100.*.* has a history of creating original research articles such as Articles for deletion/Rapid sort and Articles for deletion/Optimal classification. This is just his perverted way of trying to get his articles back to Wikipedia. Ignore everything he says, and contact the appropriate parties if personal attacks gets too much (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive459#User:Julie Dancer, repeated personal attack and harrassment and Requests for checkuser/Case/Julie Dancer) --Jiuguang (talk) 13:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Molecular Psychiatry

Hi, thanks for creating an article on this important journal. However, the way it currently stands, it is so brief that it risks being proposed for deletion. Please expand it (see Genes, Brain and Behavior for a journal article that I created myself and which may serve as a template). Happy editing! --Crusio (talk) 21:18, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alas, those deletionists! Yes Genes, Brain and Behavior is indeed better. — fnielsen (talk) 21:30, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citation templates

Hi, Fnielsen. I've come across some articles you've cited, and it appears that you haven't discovered Diberri's PMID template filler. All you have to do is input the PMID and it returns a complete cite journal template, which will be consistent with citation widely used across all bio/med articles. See:

I also noticed you're redlinking authors, which is a lot of unnecessary work, since not all of them will be notable.

Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:27, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information: I wasn't aware of the Signport article. I am aware of Diberri's tool. I have my own template filler that consistently formats from a PMID [5]. The author links are made automatically, so it is really not "a lot of unnecessary work". I do not think that authors are generally not notable, but I guess that some Wikipedia editors dislike redlinks. — fnielsen (talk) 09:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinks

Hi there. The rule of thumb is that you should only add a link to a person who either has an article already or who might get an article in the future. Please feel free to replace links that you feel fit that criteria, but you readers are not helped by linking every name in an article. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:22, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

latent class analysis

hi Fnielsen, question: can you review the mathematical aspects of a latent class analysis-remake or is it impossible?, best regards --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 00:39, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can try, I have not work excessively with the LCM. I have only programmed the non-negative matrix factorization algorithms of Lee-Seung. Which kind of remake is it? — fnielsen (talk) 09:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i´ ll arrange a articlereorganisation including sociological aspects and mathematical basics with Fossa. i give you sufficient notice :), best regards from germany --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 12:36, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neither did I, it's just my shtick w/ respect to quantitative methods. I have published a couple of articles drawing on LCA, nobody complained about the methodology, just about the theory, that's why I'm interested in some experts, who would be able to criticize my use of LCA. Fossa _?! 01:16, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS: As a bonus: I have lived on Søborg Hovedgade once for 3 months, if that helps. I am very anti-Danish, though, spent too much time in Aarhus. Fossa _?! 01:20, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What's happening here? Are we gonna do it? Fossa _?! 00:14, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Nice 400,000 years ago!

You had added a line saying there were settlements in Nice 400,000 years ago. This was recently removed by an anon user which I have reverted. From where did you get the number 400,000? I could not find it in Terra Amata. Jay (talk) 11:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do not recall the source, perhaps a museum in Nice. But then you cannot trust museum material… :) I have found a source that says 230,000±40,000 for some flint findings [6]. — fnielsen (talk) 16:13, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have found a source and added it to Nice. It is on the homepage of the Terra Amata museum (if I understand the French correct): On en trouve des traces sur la plage de Terra Amata à Nice, datée de - 400 000 ans. [7]. I does tell me where they got the information from. — fnielsen (talk) 16:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Correction: It doesn't tell me ... — fnielsen (talk) 10:36, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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It seems that you, Oo7565, is too much of a deletionist. Scientific journals of this standing are almost always deemed notable. That it is a stub is only a question of "sofixit". — fnielsen (talk) 10:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, we do not usually have articles on individual sections of journals. What I did was to move it to American Journal of Human Genetics, and revised the content to match. You might want to expand it, with the usual material on editors in chief and years of publication, and indexing services, and impact factor, and so forth. DGG (talk) 00:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is sometimes difficult to determine what a journal "is". Part B and Part C of American Journal of Medical Genetics has different ISSN. — fnielsen (talk) 22:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

and so do the print and electronic. ISSN is not definitive. We have a difficult enough job getting people to accept all journals without splitting the parts DGG (talk) 19:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So your opinion is that it is one journal? I can see that it might make more sense to view the as one journal when putting them on a library shelf, but I think it make some sense to split them: They have different editorial boards, different URL, different scope. The Infobox Journal template works best if they are separate. — fnielsen (talk) 09:12, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

re new section, "Other cases", added to Phineas Gage article -- appropriate?

I'd like to suggest that this material (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phineas_Gage&diff=284998626&oldid=284879308), which you added recently, be moved elsewhere. There are many stories like this, especially from the last 20 years, and the Phineas Gage article seems to me not the place to cover them (or even to link to coverage of them elsewhere) unless they have particular relevance to Gage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garrondo and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Delldot have an interest in brain injuries and might have suggestions for a new home for this material. Please respond here. EEng (talk) 14:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Come to think of it Karl Kleist has probably also described numerous gun shot wounds. So where should the information go? Brain wound, head wound or brain injuiry are yet redlinks, but "Penetrating head injury" seems to fit nicely. This seems also to go in line with a MeSH term [8] — fnielsen (talk) 22:16, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have moved the case to Penetrating head injury. — fnielsen (talk) 22:29, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The material seems at home in its new location. EEng (talk) 23:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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There is articles about ls and cat Unix commands, so why not LaTeX commands. — fnielsen (talk) 17:22, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Danish journal list

Hi Finn,

Thank you for mentioning the Danish journal list on Excellence in Research for Australia. I am interested in learning more about it. I have moved the information about the Danish journal list to Lists of journals, and uploaded the list of journals to Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Danish journal list.

The Danish and Australian lists are currently being discussing at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Academic_Journals#J._Lit._Th.

Also, given your interest in citations on Wikipedia, you may be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia, discussed here.

Regards, John Vandenberg ^(chat) 06:38, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The template wasn't removed by me: [9] — fnielsen (talk) 07:13, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. That is simply the standard bot-format language. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 16:22, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fine — fnielsen (talk) 17:10, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reward dependence

Hi! I have updated the article. Your suggestions and edits are welcome! Thanks for all the help and suggestions so far. Vishaka (talk) 16:49, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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October 2012

Hello Fnielsen. You tagged a page for speedy deletion, but you did not notify the article's creator that it had been so tagged. There is strong consensus that the creators of articles tagged for speedy deletion should be warned and that the person placing the tag has that responsibility. All of the major speedy deletion templates contain a pre-formatted warning for this purpose—just copy and paste to the creator's talk page. Thank you. --v/r Electric Catfish (talk) 16:46, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, but have you seen the page? It consists of "ha ha ah ah ha h ... :P :P :P :P" so surely it should be deleted. I have put in the template on the user talk page now. — fnielsen (talk) 16:56, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the page and it should be deleted, either as a G1 or as a G2. I recommend using Twinkle or Page Curation for new page patrol (I use Twinkle), and both of these automatically notify the author for you. --v/r Electric Catfish (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hoaxes

Thanks for your note. Very edifying list. I was actually thinking of hoaxes that haven't been caught, but that list shows how many there have been over the years. It's sobering. Coretheapple (talk) 15:11, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Done — fnielsen (talk) 11:04, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I erase a lot of these links, but not all. It was a partial cleanup. — fnielsen (talk) 10:15, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wow, having been a bit away from the English Wikipedia for some time I did know BLP issues were dealt with with such watchfull eyes. :-) I added a book reference. — fnielsen (talk) 14:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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QGIS

Hi! I am currently on a quest to bring information about open source mapping to the world. I was wondering if you could translate the QGIS page into Danish if you ever have the time. I just did the one in Dutch nl:QGIS, but that is the only language left that I still feel confident to write in. --Tobias1984 (talk) 11:42, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Hans Jørgen G. Gundersen for deletion

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Faric & Potts paper published

Hi. I thought you'd like to know that our paper on motivations of Wikipedians editing health-related articles has now been published: Farič, Nuša (2014-12-03). "Motivations for Contributing to Health-Related Articles on Wikipedia: An Interview Study". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 16 (12): e260. doi:10.2196/jmir.3569. ISSN 1438-8871. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link). Bondegezou (talk) 21:54, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I noted it on the Wikimedia Blog [10]. — fnielsen (talk) 22:27, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cerebellum

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Any interest or expertise on

the question I posed at Talk:Stylometry

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Speedy deletion nomination of Olympus µ Though

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Please erase it. It was my misspelling. — fnielsen (talk) 15:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Organization for Human Brain Mapping

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I am reverting to before insertion of copied text. AFAIS the problematic text was inserted by 75.146.38.153. — fnielsen (talk) 07:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An adminstrator might want to hide the copyrighted text. — fnielsen (talk) 07:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Organization for Human Brain Mapping for deletion

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I think very highly of your work, and if you can add some information, I'll withdraw the afd. DGG ( talk ) 06:40, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the alert. I have now added a keep at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Organization for Human Brain Mapping. — fnielsen (talk) 09:07, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Issues in the Cerebellum article

Hi Finn,
I'm editor-in-chief of Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, and we're about to consider a snapshot of the Cerebellum article for publication in this journal: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Cerebellum. This would make it easier for external sources to use and cite this work, and after we've advanced the journal these publications will be searchable in PubMed as well. Since you have been one of the most active contributors to this article, we would like to include you in the "author" list, and I hope this is all right with you. Also, the work has undergone peer review, and I'd appreciate if you could have a look into the peer review comments, and help amending the mentioned issues before publication in the journal: /Cerebellum#Peer review. You may first look at its history to see what corrections have already been made by other authors.
Best regards,
Mikael Häggström (talk) 12:50, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. I will try to look into it. — fnielsen (talk) 13:01, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article is now published. Let me know if you have any further questions. Mikael Häggström (talk) 14:19, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Corresponding author

A PDF version is now available for the The Cerebellum - [11]. I see your address is included as "corresponding author". Let me know if you would like to use the more anonymous Email this user system, or that I ask one of the other main contributors to take that position. Mikael Häggström (talk) 05:16, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am surprised to be listed as corresponding author and indeed author so prominent. I do not recall writing very much on the article (I wonder if any text of mine is actual present in the present version - and I am afraid I did not get time to review the article. I do not "feel" like a cerebellum researcher and probably would be unable to answer answer questions related to the article. — fnielsen (talk) 07:52, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You were still among those with most edits and who is known by real name. I'm sure you could help, but very well, I will ask among the other authors to be corresponding. Mikael Häggström (talk) 18:27, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit on hewiki

Hey. Why did you do that?--Mikey641 (talk) 18:59, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Mikey641: Sorry, I meant to cleanup a reference that was a republisher, see my blog post from 2013. I deleted the wrong reference. Thanks for noting and reverting! I made a note on the talk page. — fnielsen (talk) 20:19, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's okay. Thank you for the explanation--Mikey641 (talk) 20:22, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, about the mess. It is so difficult to edit in mixed left-right direction. — fnielsen (talk) 20:24, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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MfD nomination of Module:Formatnum

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Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017

Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017

Editorial: Core models and topics

Wikimedians interest themselves in everything under the sun — and then some. Discussion on "core topics" may, oddly, be a fringe activity, and was popular here a decade ago.

The situation on Wikidata today does resemble the halcyon days of 2006 of the English Wikipedia. The growth is there, and the reliability and stylistic issues are not yet pressing in on the project. Its Berlin conference at the end of October will have five years of achievement to celebrate. Think Wikimania Frankfurt 2005.

Progress must be made, however, on referencing "core facts". This has two parts: replacing "imported from Wikipedia" in referencing by external authorities; and picking out statements, such as dates and family relationships, that must not only be reliable but be seen to be reliable.

In addition, there are many properties on Wikidata lacking a clear data model. An emerging consensus may push to the front key sourcing and biomedical properties as requiring urgent attention. Wikidata's "manual of style" is currently distributed over thousands of discussions. To make it coalesce, work on such a core is needed.

Links

WikiFactMine project pages on Wikidata, including a SPARQL library (in development).
Fatameh tool for adding items on scientific papers to Wikidata, by User: T Arrow. It has made a big recent impact. Offline for maintenance as we go to press, it is expected back soon.
As of July 2017, Zotero has a Wikidata translator. A personal Zotero library acts as an intermediary in managing and storing citation metadata.
GLAM Newsletter June 2017, Wikidata report. This is a good monthly round-up to follow, and welcomes contributions.
Exciting and Impressive! The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched in April: Infodocket on the first three months.
Olivia Solon in San Francisco, Why the net neutrality protest matters, opinion piece in The Guardian on 11 July.

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August 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Erdős–Bacon number, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 21:44, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Erdős–Bacon number. Sundayclose (talk) 22:24, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a joke? There are plenty of sources to the paragraph. Can you explain what source is missing? — fnielsen (talk) 22:29, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Sundayclose: You might what to reply to the entry on the discussion page. — fnielsen (talk) 22:35, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did. Stop restoring this edit without a reliable source. Sundayclose (talk) 22:36, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017

Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017

Wikimania report

Interviewed by Facto Post at the hackathon, Lydia Pintscher of Wikidata said that the most significant recent development is that Wikidata now accounts for one third of Wikimedia edits. And the essential growth of human editing.

Impressive development work on Internet-in-a-Box featured in the WikiMedFoundation annual conference on Thursday. Hardware is Raspberry Pi, running Linux and the Kiwix browser. It can operate as a wifi hotspot and support a local intranet in parts of the world lacking phone signal. The medical use case is for those delivering care, who have smartphones but have to function in clinics in just such areas with few reference resources. Wikipedia medical content can be served to their phones, and power supplied by standard lithium battery packages.

Yesterday Katherine Maher unveiled the draft Wikimedia 2030 strategy, featuring a picturesque metaphor, "roads, bridges and villages". Here "bridges" could do with illustration. Perhaps it stands for engineering round or over the obstacles to progress down the obvious highways. Internet-in-a-Box would then do fine as an example.

"Bridging the gap" explains a take on that same metaphor, with its human component. If you are at Wikimania, come talk to WikiFactMine at its stall in the Community Village, just by the 3D-printed display for Bassel Khartabil; come hear T Arrow talk at 3 pm today in Drummond West, Level 3.

Link

Plaudit for the Medical Wikipedia app, content that is loaded into Internet-In-A-Box with other material, such as per-country documentation.

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Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017

Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017

Editorial: Conservation data

The IUCN Red List update of 14 September led with a threat to North American ash trees. The International Union for Conservation of Nature produces authoritative species listings that are peer-reviewed. Examples used as metonyms for loss of species and biodiversity, and discussion of extinction rates, are the usual topics covered in the media to inform us about this area. But actual data matters.

Clearly, conservation work depends on decisions about what should be done, and where. While animals, particularly mammals, are photogenic, species numbers run into millions. Plant species lie at the base of typical land-based food chains, and vegetation is key to the habitats of most animals.

ContentMine dictionaries, for example as tabulated at d:Wikidata:WikiFactMine/Dictionary list, enable detailed control of queries about endangered species, in their taxonomic context. To target conservation measures properly, species listings running into the thousands are not what is needed: range maps showing current distribution are. Between the will to act, and effective steps taken, the services of data handling are required. There is now no reason at all why Wikidata should not take up the burden.

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Facto Post – Issue 5 – 17 October 2017

Facto Post – Issue 5 – 17 October 2017

Editorial: Annotations

Annotation is nothing new. The glossators of medieval Europe annotated between the lines, or in the margins of legal manuscripts of texts going back to Roman times, and created a new discipline. In the form of web annotation, the idea is back, with texts being marked up inline, or with a stand-off system. Where could it lead?

ContentMine operates in the field of text and data mining (TDM), where annotation, simply put, can add value to mined text. It now sees annotation as a possible advance in semi-automation, the use of human judgement assisted by bot editing, which now plays a large part in Wikidata tools. While a human judgement call of yes/no, on the addition of a statement to Wikidata, is usually taken as decisive, it need not be. The human assent may be passed into an annotation system, and stored: this idea is standard on Wikisource, for example, where text is considered "validated" only when two different accounts have stated that the proof-reading is correct. A typical application would be to require more than one person to agree that what is said in the reference translates correctly into the formal Wikidata statement. Rejections are also potentially useful to record, for machine learning.

As a contribution to data integrity on Wikidata, annotation has much to offer. Some "hard cases" on importing data are much more difficult than average. There are for example biographical puzzles: whether person A in one context is really identical with person B, of the same name, in another context. In science, clinical medicine require special attention to sourcing (WP:MEDRS), and is challenging in terms of connecting findings with the methodology employed. Currently decisions in areas such as these, on Wikipedia and Wikidata, are often made ad hoc. In particular there may be no audit trail for those who want to check what is decided.

Annotations are subject to a World Wide Web Consortium standard, and behind the terminology constitute a simple JSON data structure. What WikiFactMine proposes to do with them is to implement the MEDRS guideline, as a formal algorithm, on bibliographical and methodological data. The structure will integrate with those inputs the human decisions on the interpretation of scientific papers that underlie claims on Wikidata. What is added to Wikidata will therefore be supported by a transparent and rigorous system that documents decisions.

An example of the possible future scope of annotation, for medical content, is in the first link below. That sort of detailed abstract of a publication can be a target for TDM, adds great value, and could be presented in machine-readable form. You are invited to discuss the detailed proposal on Wikidata, via its talk page.

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Jurors for WikiScienceCompetition 2017

Hi, sorry to bother you. I see from this query that you are wikimedian working in the academia.

I am helping to organize the Wiki Science Competition. You are Danish and you would represent one country without national jury. Would you like to join as a juror? We are thinking of adding two additional main jurors, but this depend on the final arrangement and profiles. So, in principle is a second-level juror.

But we can keep your name for next time, with pleasure! Or we hope that new national commitees can be created.

We start in few weeks, but international jurors work later, from January 2018.

In any case I hope you can spread the news in your working environment. Let me know.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:14, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017

WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017

Under the heading rerum causas cognescere, the first ever Wikidata conference got under way in the Tagesspiegel building with two keynotes, One was on YAGO, about how a knowledge base conceived ten years ago if you assume automatic compilation from Wikipedia. The other was from manager Lydia Pintscher, on the "state of the data". Interesting rumours flourished: the mix'n'match tool and its 600+ datasets, mostly in digital humanities, to be taken off the hands of its author Magnus Manske by the WMF; a Wikibase incubator site is on its way. Announcements came in talks: structured data on Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to make substantive progress by 2019. The lexeme development on Wikidata is now not expected to make the Wiktionary sites redundant, but may facilitate automated compilation of dictionaries.

And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via metadata. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of SPARQL queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there.

Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See a dozen and more reports by other hands.

Links

Wikidata statistics
I4OC progress in its first year, with 47% of scientific citation data now open (announced two days ago)
The flowering ORCID, Magnus Manske blogpost on identifying authors of scientific papers
@querybook, a Twitter feed devoted to SPARQL queries
Massive progress on Wikidata coverage of the UK parliament
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Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017

Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017

A new bibliographical landscape

At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident.

Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up.

The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations.

But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers.

More is on the way. OABot applies the unpaywall principle to Wikipedia referencing. It has been proposed that Wikidata could assist WorldCat in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space.

And make promoting #1lib1ref one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all!

Links

WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge, report by Peter Kraker of Open Knowledge Maps
This is a story of my knowledge adventure in New Zealand moths via Wikicommons, Wikipedia and Wikidata, @SiobhanLeachman
Wikidata and Arabic dialects, research paper, DOI: 10.1109/AICCSA.2017.115
c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/georeferencing status, Mechanical Curator project on Commons hits 50K maps milestone
Historical dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text: Who wrote this?, by Tilman Bayer, WMF blogpost
"Anyone can edit", not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap (PDF), journal paper, Heather Ford and Judy Wajcman
Alpha Zero’s "Alien" Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI, MIT Technology Review, by Will Knight, December 8, 2017

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Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018

Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018

Metadata on the March

From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.

Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by sadads, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost.

Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.

For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.

Links

1lib1ref campaign starts today, see m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref: also #1lib1ref introductory video by Felix Nartey
Funders should mandate open citations, article 9 January 2018 in Nature by David Shotton
From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries, translation from the German original of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library
outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/WMF GLAM report
Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won't happen again: Copyrights from the 1920s will start expiring next year if Congress doesn't act, Timothy B. Lee, 8 January 2018, Arstechnica

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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018

Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018

m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub

One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.

Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

Links

What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by Magnus Manske
Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by JenOttowa
What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Milestone for mix'n'match

Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

Links

Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference, Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
WikiCite report (video)
Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset, see Twitter post, February 23 2018
Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters, workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos, Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata! Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?, George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

The 100 Skins of the Onion

Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.

From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

Links

Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset
Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
Tracing stolen bitcoin, blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson

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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

ScienceSource funded

The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

A medical canon?

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

Links

OpenRefine logo, courtesy of Google

d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going
Ordia tool, a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms
OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata
d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports
#1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018, IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia

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Nomination for deletion of Template:I18n/ordinal

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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

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Respecting MEDRS

Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

Links

World Cup scorers bubble chart, by the league in which they play, query run on Wikidata
Timeline of discoveries of natural satellites in the solar system, query run on Wikidata
4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, National Library of Wales blogpost 27 June 2018, by Jason.nlw
The "deaditors" of Wikipedia, Hay Kranen blogpost, 15 June 2018
Six dimensions of open access, polemical tweet, 17 June 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

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Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report

Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".

Links

ScienceSource focus list (shortcut WD:SSFL on Wikidata), project to tag a first-pass open access medical bibliography on Wikidata, and also overcome the systematic biases in the medical literature by curation.
Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost 18 July 2018.
Wikipedia's upcoming Cape Town conference will tackle the issue of diversity, Jamie Matroos, 2 July 2018.
VideoWiki, a video version of Wikipedia.
Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books, by MEK, The Open Library Blog, 14 July 2018
More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals, NDR, 19 July 2018.

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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

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Neglected diseases

What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video

To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

Links

Wikipedia, Wikidata, and citations, a census, August 2 2018, blogpost by Magnus Manske
The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source August 6, 2018, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on OCLC Research blog
Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, August 1 2018, Parametric Thoughts blog
Newspapers On Wikipedia Update: Initial Wikidata Pass 9 August 2018, Mike Caulfield
Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, arxiv.org, submitted on 15 August 2018

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Nomination of Alzheimer Research Forum for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alzheimer Research Forum is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alzheimer Research Forum until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:43, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

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The science publishing landscape

In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.

Links

ImageGrid SPARQL query for the Art+Feminism focus list on Wikidata. Run and then scroll ...
The TABernacle tool for Wikidata editing, by Magnus Manske, has been upgraded. Demo with the ScienceSource focus list and main subjects: with a WiDar login you can edit directly in the table cells.
Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade, Michigan State University project for a linked open data platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature."
As the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project finishes its initial two-year cycle and moves into LD4P2, a list of its BIBFRAME and other RDF tools.
Machine Learning with and for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs, detailed slide pack by Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim.
In Europe, Scientists Need to Share Their Research for Free if They Want Government Funding, Futurism, by Kristin House, 5 September 2018.

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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

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Wikidata imaged

Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.

Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.

It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.

And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.

Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.

Links

Now Wikidata is six, Signpost Special Report
Find out how @TheContentMine are attempting to mine scientific and medical literature to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia., Wikimedia UK tweet and video ScienceSource and the Semantic Web
sciencesource-pmc-licenses tool by Oravrattas to extract Creative Commons license information from PubMed Central pages, created at the Cambridge Wikidata Workshop
Whizzy use of SPARQL to map the London Underground system, whizzed past on Twitter.
Wikidata birthday events mapped by SPARQL, too
d:Wikidata:Sixth Birthday/Message from dev team

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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

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WikiCite issue

GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.

In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.

Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.

Links

Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018)
LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
Shell Lessons for Librarians, Library Carpentry lesson
At-risk content on Flickr, blogpost 3 November 2018, Andrew Gray
Toward an Abstract Wikipedia, recent white paper by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google)

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

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Learning from Zotero

Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support.

Zotero logo

Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects.

Zotero demo video

There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine.

Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.

Links

Zotero Comes to Google Docs, Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018.
Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero
T115158 Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production, long Phabricator thread 2015–17.
Zotero Translators, documentation from zotero.org.
Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript
Example translator, for Wikisource.
m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07

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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

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Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

Links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day for 18th birthday celebrations
WMUK video page, with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy)
Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior, Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, Slate
Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age, Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com
Making Wikidata visible, Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library
Inventory, Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by Cleveland Museum of Art

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

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What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg

2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

Links

Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise, resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives.
What should Cochrane do next?, Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre.
Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?, ScienceSource workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also on Eventbrite for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane.
PROSPERO database of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols.
Process wonkery thread, wikien-l mailing list, September 2006.
Meta-Analysis, xkcd cartoon.

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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

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When in the cloud, do as the APIs do

Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook.

File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg

Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform

The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API.

APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web.

Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.

Links

Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata
Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API
mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki
wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information
xkcd cartoon, API Guide

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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

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Completely clouded?

Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.

Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around.

Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.

What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.

Links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata.
SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)".
SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata.
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central.

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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012

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Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view

Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while.

It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining).

Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.

ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons

Links for participation

http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue.

Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos.

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