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Getting sustainable and wider engagement in NHM science. Wikimedia and open knowledge. John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence. What I do Educate people about Wikimedia projects Teach people how to contribute to them Find ways that I can help the museum to use open knowledge projects - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Getting sustainable and wider engagement in NHM science
John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence
Wikimedia and open knowledge
What I do
Educate people about Wikimedia projects
Teach people how to contribute to them
Find ways that I can help the museum to use open knowledge projects
Encourage the museum to open up it's content
A multilingual multiplatform guide to the museum using Wikipedia
What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia
An aggregator of open license resources (e.g NASA)
Peer reviewed
Keeps every previous version of an article
Not a primary source, everything should be referenced
Funded by donations and run by a charity; the Wikimedia Foundation, running costs $27m
Uses a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license
wikimedia foundation(Google employs 53,000 people)
Who makes Wikipedia?Everyone can edit Wikipedia
100,000 regular contributors
Written collaboratively, peer reviewed
Some languages are very big like English, German and French, some languages are smaller like Welsh
The editors have control
Who writes Wikipedia
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What does Wikimedia do?"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given
free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
Jimmy Wales, Cofounder of Wikipedia
“We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.”
Clay Shirky
Our vision is to advance our knowledge of the natural world, inspiring better care of our planet.
Our mission is to maintain and develop our collections, and use them to promote the discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world.
Natural History Museum
Wikipedia's ReachThe largest encyclopedia ever written, available in 285 languages.
The 6th most visited website
Serves ≈500 million people each month, 21 billion page views a month (7 billion on English language Wikipedia),
Wikipedia Zero
Natural World
≈440,000,000 page views a month of species pages on English language Wikipedia.
e.g Blue whale article is viewed 1,700,000 times a year in English and is available in 76 languages
Ways organisations can engage with Wikimedia
Share images and other content under an open license with Wikimedia and others:
• specialist knowledge• equipment • skills• access to specimens
Improve information on Wikipedia
• specialist knowledge• access to academic journals for references
Editing Wikipedia articles
Learn how to edit Wikipedia
Don't edit the article for organisations you work for (conflict of interest)
Be honest about who you are
Benefits
A massively increased audience for the museum's content
Public awareness of the research being done by the museum
Reaches people in many languages
60% of the world don't have access to the internet, reaching them is mainly done through commercial means
Kudos from open knowledge community and the rest of the world
Possibilities for volunteers and citizen science projects
Ease of Understanding of the license, more reuse
How would releasing content work?
content always carries attribution
semiautomated
Wikipediaeditors
2700 images
Natural History Museum: Coleoptera Flickr account