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

[David Hill]

> I suspect that sort of thing happens when the CC term and the assembly 
> term are done by different people at different times.
Just a comment that this is in general bad practice. We should always 
try to look for existing references within the ontology when we are 
creating new terms. This becomes even more important when we roll out 
cross-products.

David
> 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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