User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in science communication

About edit

This page assists a presentation given by Daniel Mietchen (Q20895785)   at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Q880999)   on November 23, 2023 (Q69306992)   in the framework of a meeting of Helmholtz online editors. Short URL: https://w.wiki/8Ekk.

It follows earlier presentations to Helmholtz audiences in 2012 (slides) and 2013 (slides) as well as to Leibniz audiences in 2014 (slides) and 2023 (slides).

Wikimedia projects edit

Wikimedia logo family complete-2023

An ecosystem of about 1000 wikis

Wikipedia edit

Screenshot of Wikipedia.org landing page on 2023-04-05 21-42-04

Wikipedia is available in over 300 languages, together getting multiple billions of monthly page views.

Wikimedia Commons edit

Knowledge belongs to all of us. 2030 Wikimedia

Over 90 million reusably licensed media files

Wikidata edit

Screenshot of Wikidata homepage as of 5 April 2023

Structured data about more than 100 million entities.

COVID-19 on Wikidata edit

COVID-19 on Wikidata

Structured data about SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695)   , COVID-19 (Q84263196)   and COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)   .

Other Wikimedia projects edit

Wikimedia logo family 2021 with SARS-CoV-2 virus

An example of how each of these projects has its own ways of sharing knowledge around a topic.

The landscape around Wikimedia edit

Strategy Graphic - For collaborative editing

Wikimedia's strategic direction:

"By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us."

Wikimedia for research edit

Wikimedia about research edit

Screenshot of the article January–March 2023 in science on the English Wikipedia as of 2023-07-10

Wikimedia resources relevant for research edit

Screenshot of Scholia topic profile for peatland as of 2023-07-10

Scholia provides about 30 types of scholarly profiles, all based on Wikidata (e.g. a person or institution)

Wikimedia for Ecology edit

Screenshot of the Wikimedia Commons category Bogs as of 2023-07-10

Categories, infoboxes, identifiers, links

Media files edit

Carbon cycle-cute diagram

A carbon cycle diagram available in 18 languages

Articles edit

Screenshot of Citation Hunt for Bogs as of 2023-07-10

Tools like Citation Hunt assist in improving verifiability.

Structured data edit

Genera by number of species known to contain indolic scaffolds as of 2023-04-06

Structured data from different domains can be queried.

Statistics edit

Pageviews for the article Moor on the German Wikipedia from 2015-2023

Pageviews for the article Moor on the German Wikipedia from 2015-2023. See also cross-language stats.

Wikidata and Helmholtz edit

Person edit

Wikidata representation of the academic tree around Hermann von Helmholtz

Wikidata representation of the academic tree around Hermann von Helmholtz (Q60024)   .

Organization edit

Wikidata context around the Helmholtz Association as of 2023-09-19

Wikidata context around Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Q679913)   .

Geographic distribution edit

Map of members of the Helmholtz Association

Map of members of the Helmholtz Association, per this query to the Wikidata Query Service. See also this similar map on the association's website.

Opportunities for further interactions edit

Motivation edit

Wikimedia projects are already widely used in research and many other contexts
Reuse on Wikimedia projects is a great way to demonstrate Reusability of research in the FAIR sense
Wikimedia contributions can be integrated with educational activities
Five ways academics can contribute to Wikipedia

Contributing to Wikimedia projects edit

Listen to Wikipedia

Listen to the edit stream:
multiple Wikipedias, Wikidata, both, recording

Contributing to Wikidata edit

Wikidata items map with difference, India, October 2018 to May 2019

Geolocated Wikidata items, with highlighting of changes between October 2018 and May 2019

Contributing to Wikimedia Commons edit

Sphagnum denticulatum at Sphagnum cultivation at Universität Greifswald 2023-06-11 03

An image from the wiki excursion to the Greifswald Moor Center in June 2023. See here for usage overview.

Contributing to Wikipedia edit

WikiProject Climate change - 1000 most popular articles in February 2023

There is always room for improvement, and there are initiatives like WikiProject Climate Change or #365climateedits to address that.

Wikifying biodiversity sciences edit

Fish species by popularity in the invasion biology literature

Initiatives like WikiProject Invasion biology collaborate within a certain scope, curating entities, data models, queries and associated documentation. Sample query: Fish species by popularity in the invasion biology literature

Contextualizing invasion biology edit

Invasion biology in a broader context that includes restoration ecology, urban ecology and freshwater ecology - Wikidata Query Service screenshot from 2023-04-06 05-52-12 (cropped)

A Wikidata query for topics related to invasion biology