Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/2023-November-20 Wikidata Working Hour

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November 20, 2023 Wikidata Working Hour[edit]

Monday, November 20, 2023 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm WAT / 7:00pm CET / 11:30pm IST (Time zone converter)

Logistics[edit]

Zoom link to join:

Password:

Recording[edit]

View recording: https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/n5BXw2gd5JY3qKOgaRjpj2n-ZXGFDp7kd7emr8RDLWAKWT2d4_lDD8_fM6do989W.kAk4uvhrTdWB5tlU?startTime=1700502522000

If you wish to download the files, you can use the "Download (4 files)" link on the upper right of the page linked above.

Collaborators[edit]

Co-Leads: Mary Aycock, Mary Campany

Chat Monitor: Anna Ayoung-Stoute

Event page: Susan Radovsky

Event dashboard: Susan Radovsky

Series Coordinators: Alexandra Wong, Hilary Thorsen, Susan Radovsky

Metrics[edit]

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Background[edit]

Starting in August and running through December, 2023, we will be assembling a data set of diverse LIS (Library and Information Science) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata during a series of Wikidata Working Hours. Each event will provide an opportunity to try out different Wikidata-related skills and tools while working with a finite dataset. Topics covered in the Working Hours will include: assembling a bibliography, exporting articles and books from Zotero into QuickStatements, webscraping for data in the PAWS environment, adding authors and publishers manually into Wikidata, batch editing using OpenRefine, using the Author Disambiguator tool, and analyzing and visualizing data with SPARQL and Scholia.

The seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles. During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tools themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written.

Today's Working Hour is part of a special series of sessions involving a single data set. You don't have to attend every session to be part of the project, but you can find details about the whole series here.

Citation Politics[edit]

The ethos of the Working Hour series centres around citation politics and the environmental factors that encourage gaming citation practices.

As feminist scholar Sara Ahmed writes, "I would describe citation as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies.... The reproduction of a discipline can be the reproduction of these techniques of selection, ways of making certain bodies and thematics core to the discipline, and others not even part."

On the racial politics of citation, Victor Ray states, "Citations draw our attention to the ideas that supposedly matter, they are a measure of one’s intellectual influence and they shape what we are able to think about a given field. Citations, or a lack thereof, bolster reputations and facilitate or exclude one from subsequent opportunities."

We invite reflection and action on how Wikidata, as a linked open database with ties to search engines and Wikipedia and with querying and visualization with SPARQL and Scholia, might help diversify who and what gets cited in the field of LIS.

Citation Politics, a term I prefer to reframe as the "Citation Game," extends beyond the existing discourse. This phrase better encapsulates the dynamics among scientists regarding referencing and citing each other's work; this phenomenon has taken a troubling turn with a rising prevalence of biases. Nowadays, the lines between constructive referencing and manipulation blur as journal reviewers overtly request authors to include citations in their papers; manipulation of citations has evolved into a strategic tool aimed at inflating the Impact Factor of publications, which becomes intertwined with university rankings, addressing this issue necessitates a rigorous investigation to enhance the integrity and quality of scholarly contributions in the realm of citations.

Agenda[edit]

  • Background on the Working Hour Series project
  • Introduction and demonstration of the tool:
    • Searching for authors
    • Connecting authors who already have Wikidata items
    • Creating and connecting authors who don't have Wikidata items
  • Hands-on time to try the tool

Ways to Contribute[edit]

Link LIS researchers to journal articles using the Author Disambiguator Tool[edit]

We'll be using this bibliography of LIS researchers and articles.

  1. Login to the Author Disambiguator Tool using your Wikimedia account.
  2. Choose an author's name from the spreadsheet (particularly one with a Wikidata Q ID#) and paste into the tool (can be in direct order: first name second name).
  3. You can check all, some, or none of the check-boxes: (preliminary instructions to check all the boxes have been revised considering search time and functions of the search boxes)
    1. Fuzzy search: This is listed as the "Most aggressive form of automated name parsing" in the Wikidata page about Author Disambiguator. It will search a wide variety of variations and is not recommended for common names.
    2. Wikibase search: This allows for searches as if you are using the Wikidata search box for the name.
    3. Specify Name strings: This allows you to see the string searching behind the curtain as it is populated after you search. This is handy for eliminating certain search strings that are not relevant to your author.
  4. Potential publications are found. Under "Group 1" click "Uncheck all," so that you can verify author matches.
  5. Look at each publication to determine if the publication author matches the Wikidata item the tool has found in the "Match?" column. Clicking the matched name string link takes you to a page with a link to the Wikidata item as well as the author's publications. If the tool has not found any matches for a Wikidata item, you can check that an item for your author doesn't exist and create one.
  6. If you can verify that the publication belongs to the match, click the checkbox beside the name string in the "Authors (identified)" column.
  7. Once you have verified that all checked publications belong to the given author, choose the QID for the author to match the publications within the "Potential author items" section or paste in the QID for the author item that you created.
  8. Click "Link works to selected author" button.
  9. To search another name, you can click the "Author Disambiguator" link at the top left of the screen to reset the tool and paste another name.

Resources[edit]

//Author strings disambiguator
importScript( 'User:Magnus_Manske/author_strings.js' );

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