User:Rjwilmsi/Bibcodes

Bibcodes
Page to discuss and implement a bibcode cleanup, request from User_talk:Citation_bot.

Usage stats
Stats on pages with > 4 citations using a URL with adsabs.harvard.edu in it,.
 * Does not consider bibcode mirror sites
 * Does not consider citations outside of cite journal and citation
 * Does not check whether the citations have both url and bibcode in them, so may include duplicate counts
 * This is 299 records, there are ~1800 (including Template:Cite doi/ and Template:Cite pmid/) when threshold is 1 bibcode URL
 * Use of cite doi or cite pmid isn't counted.

Mirror sites

 * Used much less than main site: 180 pages use mirrors in total, 23 cites using mirrors on Beta Pictoris, other pages < 7.

Queries

 * When bibcode URL is not just to plain mirror/abs/bibcode, is other information shown that a bibcode conversion would lose?

Rjwilmsi

 * Write logic to extract bibcode value form bibcode URL, including mirrors
 * Write AWB custom module to convert bibcode url to bibcode
 * Look out for any URL decoding needed
 * Ensure to log & skip if existing bibcode and derived bibcode from URL doesn't match it
 * Bot request?

Helpers

 * Discuss cleanup exercises with WikiProjects: Physics, Astrophysics, others?
 * Specific discussion on talk pages of FAs involved?