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Biological determinism
A new user is recently inserting/reinstating material without having reached consensus at the article's talk page. It would be nice for more eyes to look at the contributions/sources. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 13:49, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- PaleoNeonate: Indeed. There's nothing on the talk page - are you going to write something to kick off the discussion? Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:59, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay, I see that this was now already started. —PaleoNeonate – 20:11, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, yes, they started so I replied. Your and other editors' views would be most welcome. Chiswick Chap (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay, I see that this was now already started. —PaleoNeonate – 20:11, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- PaleoNeonate: Indeed. There's nothing on the talk page - are you going to write something to kick off the discussion? Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:59, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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 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. 
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Category:Non-Darwinian evolution
See Category talk:Non-Darwinian evolution. --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:17, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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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. 
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Featured quality source review RFC
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:47, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Wow! (?): A new kingdom or superkingdom - Hemimastigophora
Published: 14 November 2018
"Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes"
Gordon Lax, Yana Eglit, Laura Eme, Erin M. Bertrand, Andrew J. Roger & Alastair G. B. Simpson
Nature (2018)
"Here we report phylogenomic analyses based on high-coverage, cultivation-independent transcriptomics that place Hemimastigophora outside of all established eukaryote supergroups. They instead comprise an independent supra-kingdom-level lineage that most likely forms a sister clade to the ‘Diaphoretickes’ half of eukaryote diversity (that is, the ‘stramenopiles, alveolates and Rhizaria’ supergroup (Sar), Archaeplastida and Cryptista, as well as other major groups)."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0708-8.ris
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"Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life"
CBC News · Posted: Nov 15, 2018
"Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that's so different from other living things that it doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms.
Two species of the microscopic organisms, called hemimastigotes, were found in dirt collected on a whim during a hike in Nova Scotia by Dalhousie University graduate student Yana Eglit.
A genetic analysis shows they're more different from other organisms than animals and fungi (which are in different kingdoms) are from each other, representing a completely new part of the tree of life ..."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823
- 189.122.238.134 (talk) 15:23, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! First page of Nature article at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0708-8.epdf Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 00:03, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- OK, but WP:PRIMARY and remember WP:NOTNEWS too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- But probably means Hemimastigophora warrants more than just a redirect to Spironemidae? EdwardLane (talk) 12:30, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- OK, but WP:PRIMARY and remember WP:NOTNEWS too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
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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.
Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining.
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"Killer Bee" versus "Africanized bee"
Any chance we could get some eyes on this move discussion? NickCT (talk) 20:46, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
- Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
- I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
- If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
- Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.
Until next time,
Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
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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.  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. 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.
Diversitech, the latest ContentMine grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in its community review stage until January 2.
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Request to move over "L."
At Talk:L. Inc.#Requested move 5 January 2019 there is a proposal that the redirect L. ( → Carl Linnaeus ) be replaced with the article at L. Inc.. Members of this project may be interested. 92.249.211.146 (talk) 04:27, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Twin needs work
- See in particular Talk: Twin# Regarding section "Types of twins and zygosity".
- When you type "Twin" in the "search Wp" field and click the magnifying glass icon, this article tops the list, as it should, but with the note
- one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Use with P31 on items for one twin
- The part I've bolded surely should not be visible there.
Invasive species?
Hi, WikiProject Biology,
I do a lot of work with categories and right now we are seeing many categories involving "invasive species" that are empty. Is there a recategorization going on or deletion of articles involving invasive species? Right now there are 14 invasive categories that have been tagged for deletion as empty categories (see Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion) and I see more coming my way. Because some categories are emptied out of process, categories sit in the empty category for 7 days before they are deleted.
Typically empty categories appear randomly about different topics and this happens when 1) a category has only one article and that article gets deleted or 2) recategorization occurs and a new category system replaces an older one or there is renaming going on. It's unusual to have 14 categories on one subject to appear unless it's an intention editing project. So, I thought I'd post here in case anything funny is going on because I hope members of WikiProject Biology would know about this.
Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Natural history of California by region
Please contribute to this deletion discussion about Category:Natural history of California by region and its subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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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?). 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.
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Canis lupus arctos
Is there a reference for what "arctos" means in the naming of Canis lupus arctos ? Does it refer to the thick fur? Is it a pseudo-Classical creation that isn't the Latin word "arctos"? -- 70.51.201.106 (talk) 06:10, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
- It's the classical Greek for bear: the Great Bear is a constellation near the North Pole, so the Arctic is the region of the Bear. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:52, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Attention WikiProjects
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Attention WikiProjects. We are designing a bot script to perform a few article assessment–related tasks and would appreciate your feedback. Qzekrom (talk) 08:52, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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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? 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.
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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
| Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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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. 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.
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Using Rater to assess biology articles quickly
Hi, I just wanted to check in. I have been using Evad37's Rater gadget to go through our unassessed articles and get them assessed so we can start working on them. I started with subjects I know something about (I'm a senior in biology so quite a few of them) and I have gotten quite handy with it. I don't just open it up and let it autofill everything--I actually make sure what it says is correct, and I frequently disagree with it, especially when it recommends FA or GA. However, I find that it is generally very close to the correct rating, and it makes the process of actually assigning a rating very fast.
I have done a few dozen pages so far and I plan to actually clean out unassessed articles mostly on my own. There are only 384 in there, but with keyboard shortcuts and a good eye I can whittle that down in a month or two, no problem. For whatever reason I cannot get a normal link to work to that category page, so here is the actual link: Category:Unassessed_Biology_articles
I am recommending that tools such as Rater (I believe that there are others) be used in the future and be discussed in our assessment page and its link on the main page. Why bother when I plan on assessing everything in the queue currently? Well, because many of the articles I'm going over do have some rating--just not in biology. And often the ratings are quite old and no longer accurate. If I had a dollar for every page I've seen labeled stub or start that was really a C (8 years later, no surprise), I'd have enough money to buy my lunch for the rest of the week. And I've only just started. I'd like us to go through the stub list and check how many articles can be bumped up. Without even doing any editing we should be able to improve our Ω-value in our stats significantly. 5.91 is NOT good, even for a scientific project, and we can do so much better.
I would be happy to show people how to use Rater and help them gain confidence in assessment. I'd even be willing to rewrite and update the assessment page and actively recruit some people. I'm hoping for some support, which is why I am posting here. If you are at all interested in this, please let me know. I have no way to tell who is active and who is not. Thanks, Prometheus720 (talk) 01:43, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Prometheus720: Wow, I used an old version of Rater to help with the equivalent backlog for WP:MCB and WP:GEN. The new tool is a great improvement. I'll help out sporadically over the next weeks. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:32, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Evolution and evolvability: Thanks so much! And I have to say, many of the pages I've been going over belong to WP:GEN and WP:MCB as well, and in many cases I have been upgrading them at the same time because...well why not? Never used an older version of it but the new Rater seems to overestimate the better quality articles. If it says GA, my experience is that it's a B most of the time, and if it says FA (or if it looks like a GA to me), I have usually been calling it B and putting it in a document of mine to submit for GA review when I'm done with this backlog. I have never seen it suggest an A rank, nor do I ever give them. There are several of those and I don't feel qualified to assess anything over a B. I really recommend setting it to automatically open on pages which have no assessment--it's so much faster. There is also the alt-shift-5 hotkey, which doesn't work for me but might for you. It's on my radar to talk to User:Evad37 about it in the near future. How do you feel about remodeling the WP:Biology assessment page to include info about this?
- @Prometheus720: I agree with mentioning the rater tool on the assessment page. The ORES predictions can be a bit high for science articles in general because of how they are calculated. A-rating has really fallen out of favour. There's only a couple of projects that have an assessment system for it. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 22:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
| Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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 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.
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This article makes biological claims but appears to have been written mostly by sociologists. Could some biologists take a look at it? Von Clown (talk) 12:28, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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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.
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. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
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