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hello in the dateline for events of December 6 the bombing of Pearl Harbor is omitted. I was concerned about such a substantial error. Best regards,Kathleen Hallinan MD MPH

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Discussions hosted here before 21st August 2017 can be found in /Archive 1 Duncan.Hull (talk) 22:15, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

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Duncan.Hull (talk) 21:40, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

The Physiological Society

Good to meet at today's event and thanks for the talk (pictured). Andrew D. (talk) 14:59, 13 October 2017 (UTC) Hi Duncan, really nice to meet you today at the Physiological Society! Asthemist (talk) 13:27, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Great to meet you all too, thanks for coming @Asthemist: and @Andrew Davidson: look forward to collaborating again in the future Duncan.Hull (talk) 20:12, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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post-nominals template in infoboxes

Hi Duncan.Hull! You may not have noticed that a number of infoboxes have been standardised so that |honorific_prefix= and |honorific_suffix= are formatted smaller than |name=. This means that any infobox using post-nominals template (or for that matter the pre-nominals template) need to have the size set at 100. If not, the automatic 85% size of the template combines with the infobox formatting to make super small post-noms. Since the update, I have been correcting these when I find them: would you be willing to do the same? Thanks, Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 23:12, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello @Gaia Octavia Agrippa: is there a style guideline that suggests this, because the default setting for Template:Post-nominals is small, with 100% being an option, rather than mandatory. Duncan.Hull (talk) 09:35, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Its not a matter of style but of formatting. Various biographical infoboxes have had their formatting altered in the last month or so. so that the honorific parameters automatically appear smaller than |name=. While certain infoboxes needed the default setting of the pre/post-nominals templates to appear small, this has now been built into the formatting of the infoboxes themselves. This was done for two reasons: to standardise those parameters across the various biographical infoboxes; and to ensure that they are small even when the pre/post-nominals templates aren't being used, for example when there is only one post-nom. The result of this is that when the pre/post-nominals templates are used with the default sizing, it now makes it doubly small. This, amongst other things, introduces accessibility issues (MOS:FONTSIZE: "Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes ... In no case should the resulting font size drop below 85% of the page font size"). Does this now make sense? Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 14:11, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

OK, I see thanks for the pointer. Duncan.Hull (talk) 14:20, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome. Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 14:41, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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Deletion of the page Alex Zhavoronkov

Dear Duncan, Can you please take a look at the Wiki page of my collaborator, Alex Zhavoronkov. One of the editors, who is an anti-blockchain evangelist requested the deletion of this page and summoned several editors to help. It would be great to have someone with the expertise with academics and published authors to take a look at the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.123.230.81 (talk) 10:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Ethos urls

You may remember me asking why you were altering Ethos urls to the university and leaving the ethos ids intact. I'd be grateful for an answer. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 21:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello @Keith-264: because Wikipedia:Redundancy is good, providing multiple urls to the same thing means that if one of them doesn't work, a failover or alternative URL can be followed instead. It gives multiple routes to the same thing, such as Stephen Hawkings PhD for example:

• Hawking, Stephen William (1966). Properties of Expanding Universes. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.11283. OCLC 62793673. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.601153.
• <ref name=hawkingphd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Stephen William |last=Hawking |title=Properties of Expanding Universes |publisher=University of Cambridge |year=1966 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251038 |OCLC=62793673|doi=10.17863/CAM.11283|website=repository.cam.ac.uk|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.601153}}}} {{open access}}</ref>

Thank you, it's always nice to see someone making an effort with biblio details. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 21:30, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

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Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Is Laboratory of Molecular Biology a part of Cambridge University? It looks like an independent lab. Ber31 (talk) 02:54, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

hello @Ber31: technically I believe its part of the University of Cambridge, it uses the same domain (e.g. http://www.cam.ac.uk and http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk), although 80% of its funding comes from the Medical Research Council (MRC) (see https://elifesciences.org/articles/00856) which is not a part of the university. Duncan.Hull (talk) 12:07, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Before 1963, it was a part of Cambridge. Cambridge University Nobel prize count[1] doesn't include LMB Nobel laureates. Ber31 (talk) 06:37, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

My understanding is that the LMB was always a part of the University, both before and after 1963 Duncan.Hull (talk) 09:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Mark Fisher's death

Curious - why remove the references to his death being a suicide? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackwc123 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello @Jackwc123: I don't believe I did, see the diffs e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Fisher_%28theorist%29&type=revision&diff=813363733&oldid=812157484

Dab

Hi Duncan, the dab Alan Cooper (disambiguation) correctly had a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC until your edit [2]. Widefox; talk 23:39, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

hello @Widefox: oops, didn't realise they were supposed to have one but thanks for point it out Duncan.Hull (talk) 14:34, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, quite counterintuitive, so happens all the time, we should probably add a warning saying as such to the dab edit orange warning. Regards Widefox; talk 00:07, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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ISCB Wikipedia competition 2017 - multiple entries

Hi Duncan.Hull, Thank you for your entries to the ISCB Wikipedia Competition. I noticed that you currently have three entries (Angus Silver, Edward C. Holmes and Kenneth H. Wolfe); however, the rules allow only two entries per person. Could I ask you to update the entry list with the two articles you'd like to enter?

Thanks! Amkilpatrick (talk) 09:53, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

OK @Amkilpatrick: done, I removed Kenneth H. Wolfe because most of the edits are outside the competition entry rules, if I've understood correctly Duncan.Hull (talk) 10:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Amkilpatrick (talk) 15:30, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Duncan, I saw you're a member of the WP:ACADEMICS workgroup and I'm wondering if you have any time to help review some changes I've proposed to Craig B. Thompson, José Baselga, or Joan Massagué Solé. I've reached out in a few places, including at the WP:ACADEMICS talk page, but I haven't gotten any responses yet. Do you have any time to take a look, even at just one of the articles? I'd really appreciate it.--FacultiesIntact (talk) 01:01, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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Cambridge

I've asked questions about the British education system, and you have answered them. Thank you. We are having an epic debate at Talk:List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation (Talk:List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation#Award-based_Visiting_Professorships_(and_other_problems)). One of the key debate points is that whether we should include LMB affiliated Nobel laureates on the Cambridge University count or not. Since you are familiar with the British research centers, your opinion is needed. Please join the discussion. We need to reach consensus. :) Ber31 (talk) 12:48, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for making me smile tonight! I just did a Reddit AMA and it was horrible. I'll get to work on these pages (after the ton of other suggestions I've had ;-)), and some sleep. Jesswade88 (talk) 21:04, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

• @Jesswade88: people can be so horrible online! Scrolling through some of the comments on that Guardian piece make me weep... but you can safely ignore them. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win...

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Thanks for adding my colleague Prof. Driscoll's thesis, web site and birth name to her infobox, but I don't understand your other changes: (i) putting in a 'when', when the year is given in the awards section of the article, and (ii) removing one of the awards in the infobox.
In fact, since there is an awards section in the article, the awards part of the infobox might as well be removed altogether, as it is now a little bit cluttered. Do you agree? --Brian Josephson (talk) 21:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

• hello @Brian Josephson: its good to have significant awards (those with wikipedia articles) in the infobox as they appear in the Knowledge Graph for example. As for the Brasiers prize, the was an attempt to clarify - as far as I can tell it looks like there might be two different awards with exactly the same name? The Royal Society one described at Armourers and Brasiers' Company Prize (which doesn't link back to Judith) and the Royal Academy of Engineering one (with exactly the same name which is separate? confusing...) described at https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2016/january/university-of-cambridge-materials-engineer-wins-ro can you confirm this is the case? Duncan.Hull (talk) 21:57, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

I should imagine A&B fund the award bestowed by the RAE, but also have their own prize but I agree it is pretty confusing. It is clear though from the article on the RAE site that what she got was the RAE one and I've adjusted the infobox accordingly. I guess I could ask her if she has any views as to which of her awards should be given prime place in the infobox. Recent controversy has made it clear that w'pedia and the wider community don't always share opinions as to what is important! --Brian Josephson (talk) 22:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. 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 Diversitech, the latest ContentMine grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in its community review stage until January 2. 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. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. 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 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. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. 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. PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review 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. 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. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. 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 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. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Completely clouded? Cloud computing logo 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. 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. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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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 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. 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. 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. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Steve Haake

I have reverted to an earlier version because you changed the citation style with no explanation or justification, and unpicking all those changes would be a lot of work. I notice that you also corrupted one of the references, so that it has an "access date" of 2018 (swapped "date" and "access date" fields). "Selected publications" is a standard section in articles on academics, and should be retained. I have reinstated the infobox and am about to fix the ref problem there... PamD 07:09, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Done, and re-used that better reference. I find that a separate full list of references is much easier to work with, and it is one of the acceptable formats for references, so there was no justification for you to change it to your preferred format of reflist. PamD 07:29, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

OK thanks @PamD:, I've restored the 14 citations that were deleted by one the edits as well as the sections I accidentally deleted. Thanks for your contributions Duncan.Hull (talk) 10:34, 3 October 2020 (UTC)