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Wikimedia and scholarly communication

There are multiple ways in which Wikimedia platforms interact with scholarly communications. This talk will zoom in to the interface of the two, both on a technical and a community level. It will highlight how content finds its way from scholarly communications into Wikimedia projects and sometimes vice versa, how data, metadata, software, infrastructure and the workflows of people and bots fit into the picture.

In the spirit of openness, the talk is editable and being developed in public at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/Wikipedia_Science_Conference_2015, from where it will also be held. Feedback of any kind - e.g. suggestions, questions, or reports of past interactions with Wikimedia - is most welcome. A video recording of a similar talk given at CERN some years back is available via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/CERN_2012 .

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• HTML: desktop · mobile
• PDF
• XML
• Wikiwand

This data was recorded live and then got lost during the saving process due to connectivity issues. Some of it could be reconstructed from the audio recording.

• Number of people in the audience?

  120

• Who has ever written a research article that finally got published?

  80

• Who has ever written a research article that finally got published under an open license?

  45

• Who has ever reviewed a research article?

  60

• Who has ever signed their review of a research article?

  20

• Who has ever used research datasets or scientific software published by others?

• Who has ever contributed to research datasets or scientific software published under an open license?

• Who has ever been scooped?

• Who has ever read a Wikipedia article (in any language)?

  120

• Who has ever contributed to a Wikipedia article (in any language)?

  75

• Who has ever published their research on Wikiversity?

• Who has ever contributed to Wikidata?

  20

• Publishing
• Academic journal
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals
• Wikisource:WikiProject Academic Papers
• Wikimedia Commons Category:Open access (publishing)
• Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData
  • Bibliographic metadata for scholarly articles in Wikidata
• Wikidata:WikiProject Wikidata for research
• Wikidata:WikiProject Periodicals
• Wikidata:WikiProject Books
• Wiki Loves Libraries
• Wikimedians in Residence
  • incl. Wikipedia:GLAM/National Library of Scotland and Royal Society of Chemistry

• Overview
• Wikipedia article: Open access
  • Exists in multiple languages
  • Associated Wikidata item
• Multiple Wikimedia entities have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access
  • Open Access Signalling project
• Open-access policy
  • Blog post announcing the policy
  • Signpost article about the policy
    • highlights differences to typical Open-access policies:
      • It covers not just publications, but associated data, software and multimedia;
      • It stresses the importance of open licensing, which facilitates and broadens the scope of reuse;
      • It is itself available under an open license, so it can easily be adapted (e.g. translated);
      • It avoids embargo periods (which most other policies allow for), and instead allows for limited exceptions;
      • The exceptions are to be documented in public, which helps to collect data on the necessity for exceptions and can inform later refinements of the policy.
  • The actual policy
  • FAQ on the policy
• Licensing is key throughout

• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library

• example

• Research Newsletter
  • e.g. Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science

Bliven, S.; Prlić, A. (2012). Wodak, Shoshana (ed.). "Circular Permutation in Proteins". PLoS Computational Biology. 8 (3): e1002445. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002445. PMC 3320104. PMID 22496628.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link), CC BY	Wikipedia: Circular permutation in proteins, CC BY-SA	A journal article whose text corresponds to this version of the Wikipedia article Dengue fever, CC BY-SA. Extension of this scheme through peer review by BMJ — see unconference session by Anthony Cole.
Overview		Commentary

• Wikiversity Journal of Medicine
• Open Access to a High-Quality, Impartial, Point-of-Care Medical Summary Would Save Lives: Why Does It Not Exist?

See also talk by Stefan Kasberger.

• Completely natural on Wikimedia platforms
  • e.g. WMF Grants and grant schemes by various chapters
  • example project: Open Access Media Importer
• Completely unnatural for academics
• New journal to cover research from all steps of the research cycle

See also talks by Dario Taraborelli and Geoff Bilder.

• WP:V — verifiability
• Wikipedia Cite-o-Meter
  • English Wikipedia
  • Vietnamese Wikipedia
  • PLOS
  • Elsevier
  • Wikimedia Commons
• Journals cited by Wikipedia
• Halfaker, Aaron; Taraborelli, Dario (2015): Scholarly article citations in Wikipedia. figshare. Retrieved 14:22, Feb 27, 2015 (GMT)
• CrossRef DOI Events for Wikimedia
  • Introductory blog post
• CrossRef Labs DOI Chronograph
  • Introductory blog post

• examples

• recent uploads
• GLAMorous
• BaGLAMa

An example of open science - from the grant proposal to all outputs.

• commons:User:Open Access Media Importer Bot (OAMI)
  • imports audio and video files from openly licensed articles in PubMed Central (PMC)
• Stats:
  • GLAMorous OAMI
  • BaGLAMa
• Expansion to full-text import
  • deeplinking
  • Wikipedia Zero
    • Wikisource is included

• "image from Wikipedia"
• "image from Wikimedia" (Commons)
• "image source: Wikipedia"
• "image source: Wikimedia" (Commons)
• Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"

• e.g. Wikipedia:Ebola translation task force

See also the talks by Alex Bateman and Darren Logan.

• Mechanical Curator
• Rfam/Pfam databases
• Gene Wiki
  • moving to Wikidata
• VIAF
  • Integration of VIAF identifiers into Wikidata
  • VIAF now links back to Wikidata
• ChemSpider

• Interoperability
  • is key to reuse
  • requires standardization

• JATS is the de-facto standard for exchanging journal article content in a machine-readable fashion
  • used for articles ingested into PubMed Central
  • SciELO content is available in JATS, soon in PMC
  • Optical Society of America, Copernicus, BioMed Central, Nature Publishing Group and others moved to JATS, even though not all of their content is going to PMC
  • NASA and other US Federal Agencies are planning to build their public access policies around PMC
• Problem: Inconsistent XML as a Barrier to Reuse of Open Access Content
  • JATS4R is trying to address this
  • Improving the reusability of JATS
• Now also with data citation

• Listen to Wikipedia
• Wikipulse
• Map of recent edits
• Wikistream
• Wikimedia project growth animation
• Wikipedia live monitor
• Manypedia
• SuggestBot
• Twikipedia
• Wikidata lists
  • e.g. Taxon items with audio
• Web Observatory

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Listen to a recording of a talk based on the links in this section.

• Items
  • showcase items
• Properties
  • Medical properties
    • NIH properties
  • Astronomical objects properties
  • Chemical compound properties
  • Authority control properties
• WikiProjects
  • Science Wikiprojects
• Bots
• Tools
  • Reasonator
    • Charles Darwin, FRS
  • Wikidata lists
    • Species of Trigonopterus
    • Items with DOIs
      • Sample citations
    • Items with ZooBank publication ID
    • |Items with ORCID
    • List of public art in Sylt — check history
    • additional tabs
  • Property suggestor
  • Wikidata game
  • Templates
    • Modèle:Infobox Fromage
    • Category:Modules using data from Wikidata
    • Module:Taxobox
• WikiProjects
  • Science WikiProjects
    • WikiProject Wikidata for research
      • EU grant proposal
        • Follow-up by Haifa University
• Wikidata:Data access
  • SPARQL endpoints

• @EvoMRI
• Wikipedia talk page
• Wikipedia email