User:Econterms/Wikiscience proposal draft

=Project plan for science wiki=


 * Set up at referata. Find out from Yaron & company if this can be done, freely, cheaply, using the same extensions are as available at AADB and WikiPapers, and how.
 * Use/copy source information from acawiki.
 * Use/copy source information from the Mietchen/Klein/Senate project on Wikisource
 * Note that policies prevent commentary on Wikisource, and allow even neutral annotations only with some effort:, .  However it would be quite plausible to copy PubMed papers which make it to wikisource to an annotated version of them at subpage /Annotated, then use that for something.
 * Their project has a budget and funding; possibly worth imitating:


 * Contact James Heilman
 * Ask User:Sadads about setting up on referata and helping copy all necessary code to new medical-wiki site. Consider contacting the author of WikiPapers.
 * Ask Yaron Koren about setting up on referata


 * User:Groupuscule examined sources on the safety of eating genetically-modified organisms and some of these may qualify as medical:

Features to try in next prototype

 * Links, and footnotes to and/or from retractionwatch, VIVO, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley, PubMed, Wikipedia, Google Scholar, ORCID? ResearcherID?  BiomedExperts?  acawiki.org?   Wikisource?  http://www.sparrho.com/,  . . ..
 * Data on clinical trials, or common data sets, used by multiple papers. Public site clinicaltrials.gov, example: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT01076764
 * Demonstrate "B disputes A" links and reports
 * Demonstrate "B uses the same data as A" links and reports
 * Can make use of links to OMIM? A visitor can immediately search OMIM (http://omim.org/) by gene (say, BRCA1) or by disease (say, influenza).  In response it lists publications that relate the disease to the gene.
 * Use Use relations between works, perhaps from the list defined by CITO.
 * PubChem
 * JG suggests: for each work, identify funders/affiliations, some of whom are interested parties (e.g. tobacco research) ; learn about Medline ; most relevant research will be indexed in PubMed ; define terms, like meta-analysis
 * idea: note small samples, note meta-analyses, note "randomized" studies
 * Eventual objective is to create a strongly attended site, hopefully run by Wikimedia Foundation, using sources which are generally indexed in wikidata.

Value added

 * Our site is not trying to be a social network like many of those sites are ; it's directed toward the search for neutrally-demonstrable truths. It should link to and from those sites.

Contacts and reviewers
Get views from User:Sadads, James Heilman, Matt, Max, Daniel, and Yaron. maybe also User:Debivort. Announce the effort on Wiki Medicine.
 * invite Janis Geary of U Alberta, per commons conference -- done, she's definitely interested, on her way to the Arctic circle?!

Background

 * We've seen a good bit of frontier work in the realm of wiki/commentary and PubMed.
 * PubMed links are easy.
 * ResearchGate employs 120 people (??!) and has $35 million from investors.
 * drop nonmedical fields from the proposal -- they expand our focus too far
 * Cite the project of Daniel, Matt, and Max, with a footnote to their Wikimania 2014 presentation