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RetractionBot is a tool I (@Samwalton9) wrote earlier in the year. It looks for retracted publications and flags citations on Wikipedia with the {{Retracted}} template, encouraging editors to review and either confirm or remove the citation. The bot ran for a day then hit some issues and had to be paused. It would be great to fix the outstanding issues, get the bot running again, and work on some improvements, such as expanding the data sources. If you'd like to get the bot running on another Wiki that's also something we could work on! Code repository: https://github.com/Samwalton9/RetractionBot

RetractionBot is a tool I (@Samwalton9) wrote earlier in the year. It looks for retracted publications and flags citations on Wikipedia with the {{Retracted}} template, encouraging editors to review and either confirm or remove the citation. The bot ran for a day then hit some issues and had to be paused. It would be great to fix the outstanding issues, get the bot running again, and work on some improvements, such as expanding the data sources. If you'd like to get the bot running on another Wiki that's also something we could work on! If you want to work on the code the only requirement would be familiarity with Python! Code repository: https://github.com/Samwalton9/RetractionBot

RetractionBot is a tool I (@Samwalton9) wrote earlier in the year. It looks for retracted publications and flags citations on Wikipedia with the {{Retracted}} template, encouraging editors to review and either confirm or remove the citation. The bot ran for a day then hit some issues and had to be paused. It would be great to fix the outstanding issues, get the bot running again, and work on some improvements, such as expanding the data sources. If you'd like to get the bot running on another Wiki that's also something we could work on! If you want to work on the code the only requirement would be familiarity with Python! Code repository: https://github.com/Samwalton9/RetractionBot