[Ontology-editors] new system for citing Wikipedia (Re: Wikipedia)

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi,

I've copied that in to the Editor Guide:

http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Editor_Guide#Adding_References_to_Wikipedia

Seems like a thing that's well worth remembering.

Jen

Midori Harris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've taken this idea and run with it:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Chris Mungall wrote:
> 
>> I propose that the wikipedia xrefs goes in as IDspace Wikipedia: 
>> rather than a full URL - I've already taken the liberty of adding this 
>> to GO.xrf_abbs
> 
> Because Chris has added Wikipedia to GO.xrf_abbs, we no longer have to 
> put URLs in definition dbxrefs if we want to cite Wikipedia as a def 
> source. Instead, citations should now be in the form 'Wikipedia:Page_name'.
> 
> In OBO-Edit, put 'Wikipedia' in the 'Database' field and the page name, 
> as it appears at the end of the URL, in the 'ID' field.
> 
> I've converted the existing Wikipedia def dbxrefs to the new format, and 
> filled in lots of missing page names as well. One nice thing about the 
> new system is that it forces us to include the page name.
> 
> cheers,
> m
> 
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