Wikimedia and Open Science
Content about hypotheses
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FactGrid
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Data modelling discussions
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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
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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
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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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