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Citoid: several publishers recently missing?

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Albert Ke (talkcontribs)

Hi,

I think Citoid is the most fantastic service for mediawiki and I started using it about a year ago to get automatically information on many publications, based on the DOI. Really great work!

Not too long ago, Citoid switched to a new API endpoint and I was able to connect to that as well but I noticed that e.g. the Wiley publisher is suddenly not supported anymore (but used to be supported in the past). Here are some examples of articles of which data can no longer be retrieved anymore:

Wiley publishers: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/data/citation/zotero/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2117.2002.00186.x

AGU publications (part of Wiley): https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/data/citation/zotero/10.1029%2F94WR00436

However, the service works great for e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/data/citation/zotero/10.1111%2Fj.1751-8369.2002.tb00087.x

Would the Wiley publisher become available again through the API in the foreseeable future?

Thank you!,

Albert.

I have posted this on phabricator as well ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165105)

Mvolz (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi Albert,

We have historically had trouble with scraping Wiley - something to do with their redirect system puts us into a redirect loop and can cause timeouts. But the DOI SHOULD work (since then we have the DOI to work with to query crossref even if we can't access the website) so that sounds like a bug. I will look into it further.

Thanks for reporting this!

Albert Ke (talkcontribs)

Appreciated Mvolz,

Hope it is something easy to solve!

Albert.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Update: It looks like this is (mostly?) a problem involving RESTBase. I don't know when it will get fixed, but they're working on it.

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