Wikidata + Citoid = <3
Talk by Marielle Volz
[[User:Mvolz_(WMF)]][[User:Mvolz]]
@mariellevolz
mvolz@wikimedia.org
marielle.volz@gmail.com
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What is citoid?
- Restful API/webscraper that returns metadata given an identifier (typically URL, can do QID, full citation, PMID etc).
- Publically available at https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Citation/getCitation
- Optimised towards traditional citation styles (MLA, APA, Chicago).
- Currently used to generate citation templates on some Wikipedias.
- Returns JSON: all values are strings
Sample request
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/data/citation/mediawiki/https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fchapter%2F10.1007%2F978-3-7908-2628-9_7
[
{
"url": "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-7908-2628-9_7",
"itemType": "bookSection",
"place": "Heidelberg",
"publisher": "Physica-Verlag HD",
"pages": "97–111",
"title": "On Implementation of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Stochastic Approximation Algorithm",
"bookTitle": "Advances in Directional and Linear Statistics",
"date": "2010-09-27",
"ISBN": [ "9783790826272", "9783790826289"],
"language": "en",
"abstractNote": "The Markov Chain Monte Carlo Stochastic Approximation Algorithm (MCMCSAA) was developed to compute estimates of parameters with incomplete data. In theory this algorithm guarantees convergence to the...",
"accessDate": "2018-10-09",
"author": [
["Yihua", "Jiang"],
["Peter", "Karcher"],
["Yuedong", "Wang"]
],
"DOI": "10.1007/978-3-7908-2628-9_7",
"source": [ "Crossref", "citoid"]
}
]
Knowledge Integrity: Citing sources on wikidata
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_IntegrityChallenges
- How nested the reference is depends on item type.
- De-duplication depends on item type.
- When is the source the website itself rather than object it's about?
Traditional reference
Jiang, Y., Karcher, P., & Wang, Y. (2010). "On Implementation of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Stochastic Approximation Algorithm." Advances in Directional and Linear Statistics edited by Martin T. Wells. Physica-Verlag HD, pp. 97–111.
Structured references
Flat reference
Two layers
Reference
Two layers
Book
Three layers
Reference
Three layers
Chapter
Three layers
Book
Four layers?
Passage and page level citations
Gadgets
Katie Filbert's "autofill" tool
Original tool: https://github.com/filbertkm/wikidata-citetool/
Fork with more features: https://github.com/mvolz/wikidata-citoid-gadget
To enable, add this to your common.js:
mw.loader.using(['wikibase'], function() {
$.getScript( 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mvolz_(WMF)/CiteTool.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript', function() {
var citeTool = new wb.CiteTool( 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mvolz_(WMF)/CiteProperties.json&action=raw&ctype=application/json' );
citeTool.init();
});
});
- Flat / two layer references
- Does not create new items.
DEMO
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002947