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''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 ↗?).
thumb|left|Amazon Echo ↗ device using the [[Amazon Alexa ↗ service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone ↗]]
Headlines about data breach ↗es 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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''Facto Post'' – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019



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;What is a systematic review?

Systematic review ↗s 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.
thumb|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?
thumb|left|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 review ↗s 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



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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 ↗.
thumb|left|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.

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''Facto Post'' – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019



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;Completely clouded?
thumb|left|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 review ↗s, 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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''Facto Post'' – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019



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

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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 ↗.

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Editing News #1—July 2019



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This is what the new '''Edit Cards for editing links''' in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: '''📲 Try Edit Cards ↗.'''
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Welcome back to the Editing ↗ newsletter.

Since the last newsletter ↗, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor ↗ and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler. ↗

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

'''Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?'''

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

''Follow these instructions and share your experience:''

'''📲 Try Edit Cards ↗.'''

Recent releases


The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site ↗. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

# Section editing ↗
#* The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
#* The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed ↗ that contributors who could use section editing were '''1% more likely to publish''' the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
# Loading overlay ↗
#* The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are '''now available to everyone''' using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects


This is a list of our most active projects. Watch ↗ these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.


Looking ahead




Learning more


The VisualEditor on mobile ↗ is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile ↗.

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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019



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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team ↗ talks about their work on the mobile visual editor ↗, on the new talk pages project ↗, and at Wikimania 2019 ↗.

Help


'''What talk page interactions do you remember?''' Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. <mark>Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the '''talk page for this project ↗'''.</mark> The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages


The Talk Pages Consultation ↗ was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report ↗ of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page ↗.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the '''"Getting involved"''' ↗ section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor


The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile ↗. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile ↗.

= Edit Cards ↗ =


thumb|486x486px|What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links. ↗


= Toolbar ↗ =


thumb|486x486px|The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. :mw:Topic:V79x6zm8n6i4nb56|Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar ↗. ↗


Wikimania


The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 ↗ in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor ↗ and a session on the new talk pages project ↗. They tested two ↗ new features ↗ in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019 ↗.

Looking ahead




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thumb|300px|alt=Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like|This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments. ↗

The Editing team ↗ has been working on the talk pages project ↗. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019 ↗.

thumb|300px|alt=Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons|In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools. ↗

The team is building a new tool for replying ↗ to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. <strong>Please test the new Reply tool ↗.</strong>


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I like group watchlist you created for the task force. Do you know where I could learn how to do that for other articles or topics? Thanks. Moksha88 (talk) 15:58, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
:{{reply|Moksha88}} It's a trick I adapted from some other WikiProjects. I used AutoWikiBrowser ↗. I've not used it much, but it's a good tool for doing things at a large scale.
:#Install AWB. Didn't take long.
:#Once it's loaded up, there's a 'make list' option in the bottom left. Paste the name of a category in there (eg: 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic ↗). From the drop down menu above the text field, select 'category (recursive)' to get a list of all the pages in that category and its sub-categories.
:#Use the 'filter' button to select just main/article pages.
:#Export it as a wiki-formatted list by going to the 'list' menu at the top and selecting 'save list'.
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The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

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Read, thank you. Probably best to drop a line to Oversight too. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:15, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

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Essentially... WIPO/FAO are organizing a workshop in June in Rome, and as part of the 2 days, there will be a edit-a-thon for all participants (some of which are planned to attend physically, and others invited to attend online... ). The edit-a-thon time is very short, on the second day of the meeting (June 16th afternoon) - between one to two hours long.

Eric Luth will attend the workshop in presence on the first day, but will only be online for the workshop. I am only joining in Rome on day 2. I am a bit worried that it will make the experience quite complicated to be basically alone over there, for such a short time. I was wondering if you could be online to help. Would you be available and willing to help us ?

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Hey, whether SHopkins1 (at the time editing as "History of Medical Research" had the permission of the MRC NIMR to upload a bunch of files from their archives not being answered in time resulted in dozens of files donated by the MRC NIMR being deleted.

I just learned you ran the event that I believe the files were donated for. I know it's six years ago, but I don't suppose you have any records that might be able to get all those files back? Because this wave of deletions ↗ has always saddened me, and, having had it brought to mind, I thought I'd research it again. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.118em 0.118em 0.118em; class=texhtml">'''Adam Cuerden''' <sup>(talk)</sup><sub>Has about 8.8% of all FPs ↗.</sub></span> 07:57, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

:It was a shame to lose those images. I do have an email thread from August 2013(!) which mentions the permissions and involved SHopkin1. I'm not certain it's robust enough, but we can give it a go. Do you reckon it's a matter of forwarding the thread to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org (along with an outline of the situation)?
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Hi! Greetings! As mentioned in the destubathon talk page, I have reverted to the email received from your side. However, I am not sure whether the email got delivered. Pinging you so that, you can reach out to me in case if you have not received the same. Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 14:16, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

:Hi Magentic Manifestations, I got your email and have just replied. It's always worth checking that an email has been received. I worry with emails about prizes that they may end up in spam, but so far that doesn't seem to have happened. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 13:59, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
::Yes, I received the email. I had pinged you specifically as it ended up in spam the first time you had mailed. Thanks again for notifying.Magentic Manifestations (talk) 04:04, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

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<span style="color:#C71585">&nbsp;'''Ṉight Ḻantern'''&nbsp;</span><sup>🏮</sup> 03:22, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

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Hi. I've already replied to your email before and filled out the forms. Inform me if there is anything left. Thanks! ^^ <span style="color:#C71585">&nbsp;'''Ṉight Ḻantern'''&nbsp;</span><sup>🏮</sup> 05:42, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

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