Wikimedia and Open Science
Logos of Wikimedia projects, all of which have some level of engagement with citizen science. Counterclockwise, starting on top: Wikimania , Wikibooks , Meta-Wiki , Wikiquote , Wikispecies , MediaWiki , Wikimedia Incubator , Wikivoyage , Wikidata , Wikiversity , Wiktionary , Wikinews , Wikisource , Wikimedia Commons , Wikipedia . Most of them exist in multiple languages (e.g. Wikipedia in ca. 300) — together, they form an ecosystem of about 1000 wikis , each with their own community. Most relevant for biodiversity research are Wikispecies, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as well as the Wikipedias. A video explaining the basics of Open research, which includes Open science A simple depiction of a research cycle. All of the individual steps (as well as iterations on or variations of them) can be performed using Wikimedia platforms, and traced using public version histories (e.g. for this page ). Elements of open research that live outside Wikimedia platforms (e.g. in open-access publications) can be integrated into them at any step (example ). Impressions from the kick-off event of the 2017-2018 Open Science Fellowship Program by Wikimedia Deutschland (Q8288) , Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Q2348701) and Volkswagen Foundation (Q1766743) . Read project proposals , announcement of the 2018-2019 projects , or lab notebook or final report of the project involving this ship. Citizen Science and Open Science would benefit from closer interaction - an ECSA 2018 poster available through Wikimedia Commons. There is an ECSA Working Group on Citizen Science and Open Science, and Wikidata served as a case study for them. Wikidata also makes data FAIR . Bryaninops natans (Q2041355) brought in from Flickr via a tool (citizen science app) .Nematus ribesii (Q1572869) Twitter background image .Variability in Harmonia axyridis (Q499627) Harlequin survey . New species of cranefly in the genus Megistocera (Q6809118) Map of localities where frog species of the genus Paedophryne (Q132975) Field Notes of Junius Henderson, transcribed on Wikisource . Scholia profile for the topic of Zika virus (Q202864) Map of disputed territories - screenshot of Wikidata Query Service as of July 4, 2018
Content about hypotheses
FactGrid
Data modelling discussions
Screenshot of Wikigenomes on 2018-7-4 Screenshot of a Histropedia timeline of publications about the Zika virus . Wikibase instances indexed in the Wikibase Registry (Q55339228) as of April 2018. Wikijournal of medicine Internet-in-a-box, 2018 edition. To access the one in the room, choose the Internet in a box WLAN (o login) and then go to http://box.lan . Wikimedia Public Research Resources Casacade in Hannover Herrenhausen Garden
Wikimedia workflows are open by default
public from start to finish
with full version history
with no risk to be bought out
openly licensed
open for participation by anyone
any level of expertise
hundreds of languages
Wikimedia platforms
cover a lot of scientific topics
are used by lots of scientists
as readers
as contributors
as elements of research and education workflows
are increasingly integrated with other knowledge platforms
especially via Wikidata and Wikibase
Suggestions for a hierarchy of hypothesis platform
allow for im- and export of RDF
use Shape Expressions (Q29377880) to describe subgraphs
use Wikidata identifiers
consider using Wikibase or Wikidata for the backend
focus on dependency cascades between different bits of evidence, not on terminology
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