Scientists Database

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Scientists DB A Wiki for Scientists, About Scientists, By Scientists

Antony Williams, PhD


Do you have a Wikipedia reputation?

Are you a notable scientist? That’s what it takes to establish a Wikipedia presence for yourself

DON’T write your own Wikipedia page! That is self-marketing. You may contribute but someone else should publish and police initially

Check the rules for notability on Wikipedia – it is policed very carefully

But you can add yourself to ScientistsDB Wiki


Scientists on WikipediaRecommended reading: http://tinyurl.com/7e3l6rz


ScientistsDBhttp://www.scientistsdb.com/


ScientistsDBhttp://www.scientistsdb.com/

Wikipedia has stringent notability guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/7r6s7gt

Many scientists are not notable enough to be on Wikipedia based on these guidelines

ScientistsDB is a database of scientists, young and old, historical and active, from various arms of science. Content is Almost 50,000 articles from Wikipedia User-contributed content


Cloned Wikipedia Content

Almost 50,000 Wikipedia articles cloned under Creative Commons licensing to ScientistsDB

A list of all available categories in science are available here

An alphabeticized list of almost 50,000 scientists is available here

A list of all scientists categorized by country is available here


Wikipedia Content on ScientistsDB


Scientists DB User-Contributions

Scientists can write their OWN articles, without the constraints of Wikipedia notability guidelines. This includes linking to other associated social network sites – Google Scholar Citations, Mendeley, LinkedIn, Blog, etc.

Scientists can contribute/edit other articles. Even articles written with potential Conflict-of-Interest (self-authored) can be policed by the community

Articles may get moved to Wikipedia when approved


Register for an Account

Go to www.scientistsdb.com and click on Log in

If you have an account then log in else Request One


Fill in account details


“Approval” process

Your e-mail address will be sent a confirmation message once the request is submitted.

Respond by clicking on the confirmation link provided by the e-mail.

A password will be e-mailed to you when your account is created.


User Page

Your “User Page” is NOT your ScientistsDB article. It is a short description of who you are.

Keep short and sweet and save the detail for the full ScientistsDB article


ScientistsDB Article


ScientistsDB Article


Create Article

Search for the scientists name on Scientists DB

If it does not exist then Create the Page by clicking on the red text


Copy Template Contenthttp://tinyurl.com/7cqylsp

A template has been created for you to use as the basis of each ScientistsDB article. Hopefully you are familiar enough with MediaWiki to create your own page. Once the page has been created then simply copy the text contained within the template into the page and edit as appropriate. The template is available by clicking on the word template in this sentence.

An Infobox template has also been created here showing how to create an Infobox embedded in an article. In order to upload image files use the Upload File page.


Add an Image – Upload File

To upload a file (specifically image) click on the Upload File link at the bottom of the page








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My social network links

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http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/12789419/antony-j-williams


LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams


Scientists DB Proof-of-Concept

ScientistsDB is simply a proof-of-concept to see whether the community will participate and see value

Some potential integration paths include Mendeley Google Scholar Citations Microsoft Academic Search LinkedIn

Ideas are welcome but mostly we encourage you to create your own article!


Thank you

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