User:Pelagic/Journal/2020/09

September 2020.

Fri 25

 * User:Peter coxhead/Wikidata issues

Sun 20
D:Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2018/08 and T47224

supports both date forms like "May 19" and "first Sunday in October". The trick is that each recurring date has its own Q-item! –,.

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)
 * 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 "The committee was established with the anticipation that it will be superseded by a permanent process by July 1, 2021" (page created July 2020)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 WikiCite/Roadmap

Fatcat on human names

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

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.

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 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) (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 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?) 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 (, 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, d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Archive/45. See also d:Wikidata:WikiProject Names.

Open Citations and Crossref

 * Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Introduction. OpenCitations Blog, 2018. Shotton.
 * Heibi, Peroni, Shotton. Software review: COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations.
 * 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.
 * Crossref allows (and encourages) separate licensing statements for the Version of Record (vor), Accepted Manuscript (am), and Text and Data Mining version (tdm). . [added 06:23 Wed 16, AEST)]
 * Crossref members are required to link references with DOIs, 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 "In 2015 we collaborated with Wikipedia to make all of their DOI links HTTPS."

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/