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Volume 8 • Issue 2 • February 2019
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Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.
Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?
Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.
Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Am I seeing something differently? I even logged out and looked at it and it’s definitely there. The pages are currently Adut Akech, Ajak Deng, Sabah Koj, and Duckie Thot and in their pages it shows up. What do you see that indicates that the cat doesn’t exist? The only thing I can think of is that it’s new. Trillfendi (talk) 01:28, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
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On 12 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra (pictured) in Rio de Janeiro state opened in 1938 as a tourist observation point and lighthouse, but it was abandoned in 1978? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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