(suggestion) Wikipedia is which Wikipedia?

[rwst]

GO refers to pages in the English language Wikipedia simply as Wikipedia. Although not very probable the German language one could be given as reference too. So I'd propose to use the official Wikimedia database names which would be enwiki: and dewiki:, respectively. You can find a list of all Wikimedia database names at: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=sitematrix

[ukemi]

@hdrabkin, if we decide to go this route, it might need to be reassigned to someone who can do it with a script.

[hdrabkin]

this could almost be done with a simple find/replace maybe using a text editor, then loading back into protege to make sure everything's ok, like I did with the plant-zymes. However, this also means we would need to have two dbx for any one wiki. I don't see the point. Frankly, PMIDs go the ncbi; it's in English.

[srengel]

would be good to not use wikipedia at all for GO.

[rwst]

would be good to not use wikipedia at all for GO.

1092 references in GO: 750 in xref, 264 in def, 78 in synonym. Wikipedia has references for what they write. It's no longer the early days of schoolkid vandalism (2005?) because authors are observed for some months before they can write now.

[rwst]

This ticket is only about renaming "Wikipedia:" to the officially correct "enwiki:" like GO uses other official database tags.

[ValWood]

Although Wikipedia is fab and highly accurate agree with @srengel we probably shouldn't use as a citation for defs because it isn't static. It will be updated as scientific opinion changes. We should use the sources that Wikipedia cites. That said, it isn't a good use of GO time to replace existing ones!

[hdrabkin]

Definitely agree @ValWood ;

[cmungall]

We discussed on the editors call

To echo @rwst's comment:

This ticket is only about renaming "Wikipedia:" to the officially correct "enwiki:" like GO uses other official database tags.

We agree - there is a lot to say about existing definition provenance in GO (not just wikipedia, but all the URLs that no longer resolve), but let's open a new ticket/project for this.

We will change definition xrefs to enwiki in the ontology. We will also update db-xrefs.yaml to add a new entry for enwiki, such that enwiki will resolve to the English language wikipedia

[balhoff]

@cmungall I thought the conclusion was to change all Wikipedia xrefs to enwiki, not just definition xrefs. Do you agree?

[cmungall]

@balhoff - I think there are arguments to be made either way. The xref refers to a concept that should presumably be equivalent across languages, the definition is sourced from text that has a language-specific expression

But yes I think it's probably simplest to change all xrefs. We may want to replace the class xrefs (concept level) with references to wikidata IDs in the future.

[rwst]

If you want to link to the language-independent concept behind a Wikipedia article, link to its associated Wikidata item. This also contains the full set of links to Wikipedias where that concept has an article. Incidentally, Wikidata contains all GO items so you have an easy check that you have linked to the right item. Example:

id: GO:0001534
name: radial spoke
xref: Wikipedia:Radial_spoke

would be https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7280278 with the canonical identifier wikidata:Q7280278.

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.

[rwst]

I can provide a diff replacing Wikipedia with Wikidata identifiers if this is wanted.