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

[Midori Harris]

in the specific case of the exocyst, the time difference is probably 
several years ...

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, David Hill wrote:

>
>> 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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