User:Fnielsen

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fnielsen is (me!) Finn Årup Nielsen, Lyngby, Denmark, - an engineer working with neuroinformatics. His homepage is [2].

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[edit] Wikipedia

Finn has been active on the English and Danish versions of Wikipedia, with the first English Wikipedia entry August 23 2002 and the first Danish February 11 2002. Among the articles I have added to are non-negative matrix factorization, ratio distribution, intraclass correlation, Niels A. Lassen and John Lykoudis.

Finn remembers C. Lee Giles as saying humorously "every scientist wishes to become a footnote": And indeed Finn has been "cited" on Wikipedia by user User:Fmccown as "Finn Arup Nielsen" in the Link rot article (version of 2006 April 16 20:50) with Steve Lawrence as first author. So now Finn is a footnote!

Finn participated in WikiSym 2006 in Odense and had a short talk in the workshop about Wikipedia research organized by Jakob Voß and Angela Beesley. The slides used for the presentation are available from the department archive[1]: Non-negative matrix factorization decomposed a article-times-author data matrix for identification of clusters of authors and articles. And in 2007 I looked at the outbound citations from Wikipedia (using Template:Cite journal) to scientific journals.[2] Nature and Science were the most cited. I compared the number of citations with citation information from Journal Citation Reports of Thomson Scientific, and the correlation between the two sets of values was not bad, e.g., when a scientific journal had many citations it tended to also have many Wikipedia citations. An updated scatter plot for the July 2007 database dump is available [3].

[edit] Research and tools

en:Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia lists a number of tools with statistics on Wikipedia.

From Germany Jakob Voß writes the Wikimetrics blog about wiki research, that, e.g., has announcements and comments on tools.

[edit] Other wikis

There are countless other wikis besides Wikipedia. Of interest I find:

  • GeneRIF is not really a wiki, but a collaborative entry of information from scientific articles about genes. A study compared it against OMIM[3].
  • SNPedia based on MediaWiki software
  • WikiPathways [7], biological pathway
  • Wikitravel, a wiki travel guide.
  • Scholarpedia, a wiki with more strict control over editing mostly within computational neuroscience. AskDrWiki for physicians is another "controlled-edited" wiki. Veropedia is an effort to collect the best Wikipedia article and make the "stable" and uneditable with expert review ("verofied"!).
  • OntoWiki, semantic/structured wiki
  • DBpedia, not a wiki but a database with information from templates in Wikipedia
  • WikiXMLDB [8] is an XML database using Sedna

[edit] Technical

[edit] Experiments

I have a sandbox as a subpage where I try to understand Wikipedia tables, templates, substitutions, transclusions and other technical details of Wikipedia.

[edit] WikipediaFS

WikipediaFS is a mountable Linux virtual file system. In Debian it installs with the package wikipediafs:

aptitude install fuse python-fuse wikipediafs
modprobe fuse

After setup in the fstab file, change of file permissions, editing .wikipediafs/config.xml, mounting with "mount.wikipediafs /mnt/wfs", etc. it will be possible to write something like:

cat /mnt/wfs/wikipedia-da/Bruger:Fnielsen | less

And the appropriate file should display unformatted.

[edit] Referencing

One referencing system (and now the "canonical") uses <ref>author, title </ref> combined with <references/> at the bottom. The Cite.php extension takes care of this referencing system, see meta:Cite/Cite.php

Furthermore, several templates support a consistent layout of the references, e.g., Template:Cite journal for scientific journal citations and Template:Cite news preferably for newspaper articles. The Template:citation is for general use.

Example reference[4][5]

Rut Jesus from the Niels Bohr Institute made me aware of that the Zotero (version 1.0.0b4) is able to export in the Wikipedia citation format, e.g.,

Zotero is reference management software in the form of a so-called add-on to Firefox (Iceweasel).

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ Finn Årup Nielsen, Wiki(pedia) and neuroinformatics, 2006 August 23. [1]
  2. ^ Finn Årup Nielsen (August 2007). "Scientific citations in Wikipedia". First Monday 12 (8). 
  3. ^ John D. Osbourne, Simon Lin, Warren A. Kibbe (April 2007). "Other riffs on cooperation are already showing how well a wiki could work". Nature 446: 856. doi:10.1038/446856a. 
  4. ^ V. Zlatić et al. (2006). "Wikipedias: Collaborative web-based encyclopedias as complex networks". Physical Review E 74: 016115. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.016115. 
  5. ^ A researcher. "A scientific paper". 
    • A journalist. "News about scientific paper", A newspaper. 
    • Another journalist. "Also news", Another newspaper. 

[edit] See also

  • Religion in communism in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1960s
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