Re: [Obo-discuss] Referencing wikipedia - a suggestion

[Yockey, C. <cou...@as...>]

The linking target depends on the purpose for the linking.  If the
purpose is to provide direct access to an article for people to read,
then linking to a permalink version of a Wikipedia article would be the
way to go.  If the purpose is to support machine accessible link
traversal in a semantic web environment, linking to DBpedia would be the
way to go.  I think that both are valuable, actually, so would suggest
inclusion of both link-types. --Courtland Yockey / AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals / Wilmington, Delaware


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-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Antezana [mailto:eri...@gm...] 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:20 AM
To: obo...@li...
Subject: Re: [Obo-discuss] Referencing wikipedia - a suggestion

Hi,

we have hundreds of dbxrefs to wikipedia in our ontologies (despite
the fact some colleagues find sometimes that wikipedia has not
sufficient "scientific" content -- anyway, for some terms it is more
than enough...)

We've been using the first form you mentioned, e.g:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex

I think it is a good idea to use the permanent link (URL) to a given
version, although some users would prefer to always get the latest
version of a given article...

w.r.t. the encoding itself, the only detail to pay attention is that
your ontology generator, editor, or so should carefully escape some
characters, e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

should be

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington\,_D.C.

cheers,
Erick

On 25 February 2013 21:39, dosumis <do...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Quick suggestion:
>
> Working with OBO library ontologies, I often find wikipedia used as a
> reference.  While an academic reference may be preferable, I think
that
> using wikipedia as a reference for a definition is completely
acceptable.
> However, for this to be useful, it is essential to to use a permalink
to the
> version referenced. Without this there is no way to read the original
text
> that was used as a source for the definition.
>
> e.g.- Don't use this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex
>
> or wikipedia:reflex.
>
> Please go to the hiistory
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reflex&action=history
>
> and choose the most recent dated version:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reflex&oldid=539529404
>
> If there is general agreement on this (& I see now reason why there
> shouldn't be), can we post this somewhere as a policy - perhaps on the
obo
> foundry site?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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