User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Wikipedia Science Conference 2015

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This page belongs to a talk given as part of the Wikipedia Science Conference in London.

Title

Wikimedia and scholarly communication

Abstract

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 .

Formats

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

Warmup: show of hands

An impression from the talk. Note the clock.

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

Wikimedia

Logos of Wikimedia projects, with Wikidata missing. Counterclockwise, starting on top: Wikimania, Wikibooks, Meta-Wiki, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, MediaWiki, Wikimedia Incubator, Wikivoyage, Wikidata, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia.

Publishing

Wikimedia about publishing

• 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

Wikimedia and Open Access

• 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

Wikimedia and subscription access

• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library

Publishing about Wikimedia

• example

Wikimedia about publications about Wikimedia

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

Journal ↔ wiki publishing

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

Publishing beyond papers

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

Citing

Citing journals in wiki

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

Citing wiki in journals

• examples

Reusing

Reusing journal materials in wiki

• recent uploads
• GLAMorous
• BaGLAMa

Open Access Media Importer

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

Reusing wiki materials in journal

• "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"

Translations

• e.g. Wikipedia:Ebola translation task force

Curating via Wikimedia

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

Role of repositories

• Interoperability
  • is key to reuse
  • requires standardization

JATS

• 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

Visualizations

• 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

Long-term vision

Sharing research with the world as soon as it is recorded, in a way that is integrated with research workflows rather than added on top of them (cf. Geoffrey Bilder's talk). Now imagine this with open licenses and public version histories as the default setting. Video also available on Vimeo.

Wikidata for research

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

Contact

• @EvoMRI
• Wikipedia talk page
• Wikipedia email