Paper: "Wikipedia on the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard: Connecting Resources to Enrich Public Chemical Data"

Currently, I am mostly working on chemistry in Wikidata but recently also validated CAS registry numbers in Wikipedia. Previously, I added many CompTox Dashboard identifiers to Wikidata. Now, Wikipedia ChemBoxes are slowly picking up more data from Wikidata, but are hesitant for a number of reasons. One is, I understood, that Wikipedia is meant to be self-consistent. That is, it should have all the information itself. Exceptions include images from WikiMedia Commons. Another one is the Wikipedia has a large chemistry community that is doing great curation work.

The Wikipedia on the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard: Connecting Resources to Enrich Public Chemical Data paper (doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00886) is about curation of Wikipedia about (toxic) compounds. I am happy that my Wikidata work has helped the curation process, perhaps how validating the CAS registry numbers in Wikidata *and* Wikipedia showed up unique aspects of chemical database curation.

Figure 1: Section of the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard, Chemical Details page for Aflatoxin B1 showing the lede loaded from Wikipedia. License: CC-BY-NC-ND.