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LinuxInsider references brought to RSN

Hi David, I just followed up on this discussion on Knowledgebattle's talk page on WP:RSN. I pinged you there but I want to be sure you're notified. Thanks. ZackTheCardshark (talk) 21:39, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Clive Jacobs

HI David, I was wondering whether the Clive Jacobs entry referred to by Mike Walsh above is able to be re-published? Thanks Jezgibbson (talk) 14:13, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Deletion of SOBI2 page

Hi David, you deleted the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOBI2 I just wanted to update the information on it. Could you please restore the page to let me update the information. Many thanks!! TrinitySu (talk) 14:55, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David, can you please answer me. Thank you! TrinitySu (talk) 09:34, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored it to draft space: Draft:SOBI2. At the moment it has no third-party references at all, and probably wouldn't survive WP:AFD; you should probably add good third-party sourcing before you move it back to mainspace - David Gerard (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Hello, jist letting you know about this edit: [1]. I've just reverted and not taken any further action, but you could take it further if you wish. Thanks, 07:27, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

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Waterloo train station listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Waterloo train station. Since you had some involvement with the Waterloo train station redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Useddenim (talk) 00:20, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Deletion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyraCom

Hi there,

It appears you deleted our company page. We'd like to clean it up to be more resourceful and informative - could you please change the page to a draft state so we may have the chance to address the issues?

Please respond, thanks Levelindoors (talk) 19:16, 8 March 2017 (UTC)CyraCom[reply]

Deletion of draft page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EdGE_Networks

Hi, I would like to address the issues with the page, could you please return it to draft stage?

Thanks Indigenus~enwiki (talk) 06:11, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nahid Afrin

Hello, I saw that this page is edit protected. There's quite enough material available to source this article. Would you like to help in its creation? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 17:09, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FYI - I've gone ahead and unprotected the page. Looks like circumstances have changed - she was the subject of a fatwa over one of her performances earlier this month - and I think she can now meet the notability guideline. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:04, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
yeah, no objection - David Gerard (talk) 15:41, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete of FrontAccounting on wiki comparison of accounting software?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software

(cur | prev) 21:19, 29 September 2016‎ David Gerard (talk | contribs)‎ . . (38,716 bytes) (-24)‎ . . (Removing link(s) to "Frontaccounting": rm redlink (AFDed). (TW)) (undo)

Just wondering why Frontaccounting was removed?

Janesn (talk) 11:05, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Per deletion discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frontaccounting - David Gerard (talk) 11:23, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Cymascope

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Econlib

If the statement is significant, we can source it to an independent third party establishing its significance. You have stated that this is the primary source, we should use a secondary source instead. And everything on that site is self-published, in that they don't have any scholarly peer review, but that page especially so since it is a blog post. I cannot see why we would use a blog post at a think-tank as a primary source instead of a reliable independent secondary source, especially since we already have one of those. Guy (Help!) 07:00, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Review/change page

Hello User:David Gerard, because you have done benefiting edits to surname pages in past, was wondering if you can correct Maiorana page (look if the links are in right place or if they are even needed, and add/change written info). Here's the last version by User:Xezbeth [2]. If you can't do it then please let me know if you know some else you could, thanks.--Theo Mandela (talk) 03:18, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ethereum Classic Page Issues

Hi User:David Gerard, I would like to know how we can improve the Ethereum Classic Page, it says we have too many 'references to primary sources', however Ethereum page has a similar amount of primary sources, yet it does not have the same issues. How can we resolve or improve this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bestteamever171 (talk • contribs) 22:51, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Ethereum page didn't before, but advocates keep putting the primary sources back. It needs a cleanout again.
Basically, you need to keep pretty strictly to reliable sources, third-party ones. If something about ETC isn't in a third-party source, it's almost certainly not worth noting in the article - David Gerard (talk) 22:55, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The DAO Hardfork did not occur on the Ethereum Classic chain. It is stated in many of the articles cited in the page.

The 13th 4postle —Preceding undated comment added 20:35, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should readd the sentence on the Dao fork in the opening paragraph of the Ethereum page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Warzuckerberg22 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal for a page

Dear David Gerard,

As previously you have contributed to Wikipedia in regards to financial articles, would you, please, consider writing an article on Creamfinance? It is a global financial services company that provides personal finance products in emerging markets. The company was ranked as the second fastest-growing company in Europe in 2016. Creamfinance is employing over 220 people and operating in 7 countries both within and outside of Europe – Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Denmark and Mexico with an IT office in Austria.

I believe it corresponds to the Wikipedia notability rules as it has been talked about in legitimate third party sources: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

If you wish I have put together a first draft for the page and can send it you.

According to Wikipedia guidelines I want to underline that I am a Project Manager at Golin Riga and I have been approached by Creamfinance to help with their representation on Wikipedia. Aozolins-golin-riga (talk) 08:34, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hackathon to help Wikipedia 1.0

Hello! You're listed as a member of the Wikipedia 1.0 team, so I thought you might be interested in this Hackathon on August 13-18 in my home town of Potsdam, New York, right after Wikimania. Let me know if you'd like to participate. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 04:57, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

EWRONGCONTINENT, but cheers :-) - David Gerard (talk) 08:36, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks anyway. I hoped you might be over here for Wikimania! Cheers, Walkerma (talk) 12:46, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ethereum Classic

The DAO Hardfork did not occur on the Ethereum Classic chain. It is stated in many of the articles cited in the page.

It's a pretty overwhelmingly important event to the history of ETC, though ... - David Gerard (talk) 20:50, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  2. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/habits-and-routines-of-entrepreneur-matiss-ansviesulis_us_58cf643ce4b0537abd95727c
  3. ^ https://www.inc.com/magazine/201603/noah-davis/inc-5000-europe-2016-fastest-growing-private-companies.html
  4. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/habits-and-routines-of-entrepreneur-matiss-ansviesulis_us_58cf643ce4b0537abd95727c
  5. ^ http://af.reuters.com/article/southAfricaNews/idAFFWN1H10D
  6. ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianmitchell/2017/02/20/meet-the-fintech-ceo-making-money-easily-available-anywhere-in-the-world/#5a39bb19f724
  7. ^ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150929005886/en/
  8. ^ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/creamfinance-partnership-with-mintos-to-offer-investments-in-loans-in-georgia-2015-09-29
  9. ^ http://www.labsoflatvia.com/news/latvian-creamfinance-nabs-a-21m-investment
  10. ^ http://www.techbullion.com/creamfinance-among-fastest-growing-europe-2017-inc-5000-rank
  11. ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianmitchell/2017/02/20/meet-the-fintech-ceo-making-money-easily-available-anywhere-in-the-world/#5a39bb19f724

Dispute resolution on Ethereum

User:David_Gerard - I hereby notify you of my request for dispute resolution regarding the lead edit on Ethereum. You know where I stand. It would be sensible for you to participate in this discussion.

Aliensyntax (talk) 02:50, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

The article you deleted, I was going to try to make it better, and I may not do it fast. Please tell me what to do with my deleted article. Thank you. Please refer to Winner 42's talk page. Also, I'm not really good with Wikipedia. Luke Kern Choi 5 (talk) 14:07, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Which article? I zapped a pile of expired PRODs. I can restore it to a draft with no problems - David Gerard (talk) 14:09, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Donga Science, please.Luke Kern Choi 5 (talk) 23:07, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Draft:Donga Science. cheers :-) - David Gerard (talk) 06:43, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Hypermobility syndrome

Hello David Gerard,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Hypermobility syndrome for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

scope_creep (talk) 15:02, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In case there's useful content, I've marked it for merging, or if there isn't, just redirecting - I think it's a useful article title, but should point users to the EDS page - David Gerard (talk) 15:09, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Art Renewal Center

Hello David,

I have an undergraduate degree in Art History from York U, and am currently doing my master's degree at Queen's. I noticed you have correctly noted that on the Art Renewal Center website, there are insufficient secondary sources. I have taken it upon myself to fix this problem that you have identified. This will take me a long time. Please assist in adding reliable sources. Also, some of the current sources are fine, but they are missing things like the author, date, publisher, etc. Perhaps you could assist in this as well. In this way, we can improve the article together.

Thank you, Art Historian (talk) 18:35, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above is a blocked sockpuppet on Art Renewal Center, an article in need of a serious cleanout - David Gerard (talk) 08:48, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Puffery in the Foresight Institute page

Hi David, I've removed some more puffery from the article. Can you please take another look, and let me know which specific areas need more cleanup? Thanks, Dandv 21:47, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's good enough I've untagged it now, nice one :-) I'll go through it more at my leisure, but it's at least OK - David Gerard (talk) 12:54, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

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Music Releases as Sources

Hi. I understand you have deleted my article Neelix (musician), as if there are no reliable sources on that article. May I ask you a question, are music releases as a discography reliable sources? If you have a reply, please sent me a reply here or my talk page as soon as you can. Thanks. Ivan Milenin (talk) 18:27, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Usually not enough. e.g. Discogs is not a RS. You want sourcing that satisfies Wikipedia:Notability (music) - David Gerard (talk) 19:15, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
What about music releases from official label websites and stores? For example, Simon Patterson has some releases on Armada Music and on Perfecto Fluoro with a song of Whites of Her Eyes, with stores of iTunes, Beatport, Armada Music, including his own website: djsimonpatterson.com. Could that help? Ivan Milenin (talk) 19:31, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest you look over the notability guideline and ask such questions on its talk page. It's only a guideline, but it's one that people work to with pretty strong consensus - David Gerard (talk) 19:34, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (disambiguation)

This page has important discussion, could you plz restore this page and rename it into Talk:Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (over current redirect). Alex Spade (talk) 14:41, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Restored to that title - David Gerard (talk) 17:27, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Nassim Haramein

Hello David Gerard. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Nassim Haramein, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Page significantly different than the one deleted ten years ago. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 13:56, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Alejandro Rioja

Hello, I'd like you to look over this page that does not seem to meet the notability guidelines.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Rioja

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Nomination of Bitcoin Magazine for deletion

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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.

Dorstenia elata, a critically endangered South American herb, contained in Moraceae, the family of figs and mulberries

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.

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IOTA (technology)

Re IOTA (technology). I just tidied up a bit, removing some unsourced/tagged stuff, and added a large number of requests for citations. Thought another pair of eyes might be helpful, should you be interested. N2e (talk) 23:06, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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There has been a request to inform all who voted in the RfC about interlinking accounts involved with paid editing about the following adjustment in the "statement of issue" on Sept 18th, 2017.

It was clarified that this effort will help deal not only with impersonation of specific Wikipedians but also claims of being in good standing made by those who are not.[17] Thanks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:59, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please

Please come on board after a deep, hard think about it. You might be the first Wikipedian to provide the acknowledgement I feel that I deserve. - Shiftchange (talk) 17:08, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But the question is

what kind of vodka, gin, and vermouth? Smooth alligator (talk) 21:20, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Something cheap I expect, the whole point of cocktails is to make bathtub rotgut drinkable!
(I haven't had one of those cocktails in years, I should make one again just to remind myself.) - David Gerard (talk) 21:34, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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?

1495 print version of the Digesta of Justinian, with the annotations of the glossator Accursius from the 13th century

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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Monero

Hi there! I would like to work out a broad consensus the general structure of that article. Can you perhaps pitch in here Talk:Monero_(cryptocurrency)#Discussion_about_MRL_sources too? Fireice (talk) 18:39, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly, though my answer is as it always is: WP:RS, WP:V, third-party, as mainstream as possible because crypto sources are largely advocacy and hype - David Gerard (talk) 18:40, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I posted a proposed edit to RSN, can you have a look at the sources? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Monero_.28cryptocurrency.29 Fireice (talk) 03:35, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Solidity

Dear David, I see you reverted my recent edit on Solidity because it needs a third-party source. I fail to see how a link to the actual code on GitHub, where you can see the actual implementation, is not a valid source.

Could you please clear this up for me? Thanks!

MorbidFlorist (talk) 18:22, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I linked WP:RS, you should also read WP:V - David Gerard (talk) 18:55, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Curtis Yarvin

Please see the discussion at the alt-right template footer talk page. Also, to avoid BLP issues, please restrain yourself from re-adding the name until the discussion is complete. Thank you. Rockypedia (talk) 20:00, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bitcoin Gold

Bitcoin Gold is an especially garbage article, having only 3 sources, of which 2 are primary. I considered trying to fix it, but it seems maybe more worthy for deletion. I've never nominated an article for deletion before, could you take a look? TD-Linux (talk) 09:04, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's terrible, yes. Unfortunately it got a bit of mention in actual RSes. But the article as it stands is primary-sourced trash - David Gerard (talk) 10:56, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Sory, not primary-sourced trash - completely unsourced trash. It was literally an uncited personal essay. I cut it to the intro and noted on the talk page - David Gerard (talk) 11:02, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017

WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017

WikidataCon 2017 group photo

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.

WD-FIST explained

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.

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Alex Zhavoronkov

Could you please send that one to AfD instead? I have a few sources to throw out there but I've worked with this guy in the past and don't feel comfortable editing the article myself because of my COI.--v/r - TP 14:31, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A possible COI doesn't stop you putting 'em on the talk page (noting "I know the guy") - if there's sources, it'd probably be better it be saved than given a gratuitous AFD - David Gerard (talk) 20:31, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I could do that. I don't really know the guy. He once paid me for some work about six years ago. Haven't heard from him since, but had his page on my watch list.--v/r - TP 02:06, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

REQUEST FOR COMMENT: Why should we accept ridiculous redundancies just because some lay/industrial people do?

Hi, Dave. Someone at Marvel One-Shots thought we shouldn't eliminate a ridiculous logical redundancy there, for some odd reason, so I started a discussion on the talk page to dispute this ridiculous idea. Will you please come and support the correction of this error? Thanks, if you do decide to help out. Be Your Own Hero (talk) 08:13, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious four years!

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Plumbus

Did you mean to set full protection on this article indefinitely? ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 04:04, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Possibility of providing your input on a Peer Review for Regine Velasquez's entry

Hi David Gerard,

I'm writing to ask whether you would consider having a look at the article. I'm aware that you've been involved with a few PRs before. I've given it a major rewrite and complete overhaul. I began working on the article late October when it looked like this and somehow ended up rewriting the whole thing and aiming for potentially FA. This isn't a process I've been through before, but I have been reading the reviews here in preparation, and am familiar with FAC demands. If you have the luxury of time, it would be great to have a fresh set of eyes look at it extensively and I'd happily address any concerns you may have.

Thanks! Pseud 14 (talk) 13:28, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Monthly Sathee Karachi

Hi David Gerard,

I'm Admin at Urdu Wikipedia, Monthly Sathee, is a one of the most popular in children's magazines in Urdu, news references. Please page undelete, I can will improve this article.--Obaid Raza (talk) 07:08, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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!

November 2017 map of geolocated Wikidata items, made by Addshore
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