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

194 footnotes 1,176 unique watchers

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!

dario@wikimedia.org !@ReaderMeter

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Register a Wikipedia account to get started: http://bit.ly/WikiAAAS

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