User:Pelagic/Journal/2020/09

September 2020.

Fri 25

• User:Peter coxhead/Wikidata issues

Sun 20

D:Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2018/08#Allowing editors to add edit summaries and phab:T47224

day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) supports both date forms like "May 19" and "first Sunday in October". The trick is that each recurring date has its own Q-item! – May 19 (Q2578), first Sunday in October (Q51156449).

Old-old tabs

(Sing it to the tune of Red-Red Wine? Tabs from laptop.)

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/May_2020_-_Board_of_Trustees_on_Healthy_Community_Culture,_Inclusivity,_and_Safe_Spaces#Summary_of_the_current_state_of_affairs
• Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Harassment solutions (Ellen, July 2020)
• meta:Trust and Safety/Case Review Committee. "The committee was established with the anticipation that it will be superseded by a permanent process by July 1, 2021" (page created July 2020)
• meta:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/May 2020 - Board of Trustees on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces, discussions re. "Statement on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces" from Raystorm on behalf of Board.

Sat 19

d:Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2018/08#The future of bibliographic data in Wikidata: 4 possible federation scenarios (2018) and wikidata:WikiCite/Roadmap

Fatcat on human names [1]

d:Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2018/08#What heart rate does your name have?

Thu 17

Ultra-black fish revisited

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.044
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982220308605#!
• PlumX says it's cited in 5 Wikipedia articles, and 70 (!) news stories.[2]

No hits for the DOI in OpenCitations index search or corpus search, nor in Crossref. Not surprising, Elsevier seems to hoard its citations for Scopus rather than adding to Crossref. [citation needed, but I did read yesterday somewhere that Elsevier is/was holding out on submitting reference lists]. But they do show a Crossmark button, so they are probably submitting the bibliographic listing if not the references.

Title search (but not DOI) on Datacite [3] does work. However the results pages don’t render properly and are unusable on iPad, so I’ll need to revisit from a desktop or laptop computer. One hit links out to supporting data (xlsx) [4] (DOI 10.17632/6t6sw3mpy3.1) on Mendeley (another Elsevier company?).

It would be fascinating to analyse how articles like this gain popular traction.

The reference list here [5] is interesting in that it presents authors / title / journal on separate lines. Takes up more space, but improves readability. [to-do: check markup for linked data]

Slingshot spiders

ScienceDirect recommended this one: "Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs" (available online 17 Aug, query not yet in print?) [6] Another title that could fire the popular imagination. (It says "ultra"!) So far has 1 blog mention, 10 news mentions, 13 shares/likes/comments, 213 tweets, and 0 Wikipedia citations.

Old tabs

• Pasleim's implausible coordinates on Wikidata. Some of these are genuine, like the Australian Antarctic Territory, or some naval wrecks that have country=Australia and co-odds at the bottom of a foreign sea. Some I fixed where maybe a user hit au instead of ar, others were just bad edits that I reverted. Still a lot more entries pending...
• Code for Indonesian Administrative Division (administrative code of Indonesia (P2588), proposal, official site) – this could be worthy of a Wikipedia article if I can find references. Or perhaps a section in Subdivisions of Indonesia, since that exists already.
  • Aside: {{Wikidata property link}} needs improvements to TemplateData.

Personal names

Names are diverse and databases that assume (first-name, last-name) pairs are really not sufficient. Some interesting discussion is at d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Archive/45#name, d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Archive/45#marrried name. See also d:Wikidata:WikiProject Names.

Tue 15

Open Citations and Crossref

• Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Introduction. OpenCitations Blog, 2018. Shotton. [7]
• Heibi, Peroni, Shotton. Software review: COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations. [8]
  • Mentions WikiCite among other Related Works.
• Crossref charges a per-article fee for member institutions to deposit citation lists. Members are assigned a DOI org id when they join.
• Information about journal titles and ISSNs at Crossref. [9]
• Crossref allows (and encourages) separate licensing statements for the Version of Record (vor), Accepted Manuscript (am), and Text and Data Mining version (tdm). [10]. [added 06:23 Wed 16, AEST)]
• Crossref members are required to link references with DOIs [11], and to format the DOIs a certain way []. Deposited references can be DOI or unstructured. Since members pay to deposit their metadata on Crossref, there is no scraping or collecting of reference lists from the source documents.
  • Crossref recommendations for displaying DOIs [12] "In 2015 we collaborated with Wikipedia to make all of their DOI links HTTPS."

Sun 6

Governance and institutional memory

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-August/095478.html et seq.
• meta:user:Peteforsyth/governance

Rules and Policies as Negotiated Settlements and Trophies

https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vkostakos/courses/socialweb10F/reading_material/5/butler08.pdf (do web search to find other free copies)

Fri 4

https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2020/08/29/queensland-sets-aside-577000-hectares-as-a-koala-paradise/