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Experts as contributors, contributors as experts Bridging the gap between Wikipedia and Academia
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11,130 words 11,765 revisions 3,883 unique contributors
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Mathematics 249 articles Sociology 469 articles Engineering 475 articles Linguistics 660 articles Computer Science 737 articles Chemistry 881 articles
Scientific organizations 528 articles
Science stubs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Science_stubs !http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_with_sourcing_issues!
Lacking reliable references 43,349 Lacking in-text citations 57,699 Lacking sources
235,548 Unsourced statements 245,019
Articles with sourcing issues
“Wikipedia is not the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal vetting. In this unique role, it serves as an ideal bridge between the validated and unvalidated Web.”
Casper Grathwohl, Wikipedia Comes of Age Chronicle of Higher Education
What are opportunities for academic engagement and expert participation in Wikipedia
What role for Wikipedia in research and higher education
Wikipedia in the classroom
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program_Summary_Information
Wikipedia in the classroom: 56 universities in North America in 2013
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program_Summary_Information
Participation campaigns driven by scholarly societies
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiative!http://www.asanet.org/about/wiki_Initiative.cfm!http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01135.x/full!http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14/
Donate open-licensed scientific media
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Culex_sp_larvae.png!http://wir.okfn.org!http://toolserver.org/~dartar/cite-o-meter
Link Wikipedia articles to scientific knowledge bases
http://www.chemconnector.com/2008/03/08/the-curation-of-almost-5000-structures-on-wikipedia/
Add structured data to Wikipedia articles
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/D1/D1255.full
Add structured data to Wikipedia articles
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
Collaborative editing is not easy
Register an account anonymous edits have a much higher deletion rate
Respect the community, learn the house rules notability policies are painful but exist for a reason
Replace individual authority with institutional / program affiliation
program affiliation is a better way to introduce yourself than your PhD in biochemistry
Avoid obvious COI/controversial topics don’t create your lab’s article as your first contribution
Learn about WikiProjects find peers and fellow academic contributors in specialized topic groups
Incentives
Help remove barriers to public access to knowledge
https://twitter.com/WikiProjectMed/status/293388972963540992 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
Design policy to support (scholarly) open knowledge
Dario,
Representative
has a specific interest in Higher Education. . Recently he read an article that referenced that Wikimedia finds it particularly challenging to get University Faculty to participate. He has some specific interest in possible drafting some legislation to make participation a requirement for tenure.
We would appreciate some time to discuss this with you. Please let me know what your availability is to speak via telephone and I will be happy to coordinate the call.
Best,
Give academics credit for participation in open collaboration projects
http://altmetrics.org
Experts as contributors, contributors as experts. Bridging the gap " between Wikipedia and Academia
!http://nitens.org/docs/slides/aaas13.pdf!
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Register a Wikipedia account to get started: http://bit.ly/WikiAAAS
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