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

[Midori Harris]

I suspect that sort of thing happens when the CC term and the assembly 
term are done by different people at different times. I hardly ever use 
Wikipedia, unless I can't find suitable papers easily, but some other 
editors have a lower threshold for going to wikipedia. Don't know if it's 
much of a problem.

m

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Chris Mungall wrote:

> Thanks Midori!
>
> I notice "exocyst" has the xref at the term level, and "exocyst assembly" has 
> the Exocyst page at the def-xref level. What's the policy here? It seems odd 
> to source the def of the assembly term from wikipedia page (which largely 
> describes the structure and function but not the assembly), but not for the 
> CC itself.
>
> On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:41 AM, 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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