crossing the streams: social and technical interfaces between wikimedia and open access publishing
DESCRIPTION
Slides from my Lunch and Learn talk at the Public Library of ScienceTRANSCRIPT
Social and technical interfaces between Wikimedia and Open Access publishing
Dario Taraborelli • @readermeter
22 August 2014
Crossing the streams
Overview
Hellowho I am, what I do
Crossing the streamssharing {content, citation data, attention}
Accelerating OAblowing up the Marshmallow Men
Hello
Research & Data
Crossing the streams
OCrossing the streamsSharing content
PLOS Computational Biology Topic Pages
http://topicpages.ploscompbiol.org
Revisions to PLOS Computational Biology Topic Pages
Open Access Media Importer
Open Access Media Importer
https://github.com/wpoa/open-access-media-importer
OCrossing the streamsSharing citation data
Citation data in Wikipedia articleshttp://tools.wmflabs.org/cite-o-meter/?doip=10.1371
Citation template
Adding a source to a Wikidata statement
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData
[Item P] [has property] [Q] [according to] [Source R]
[Source R] [has DOI] [10.1371/foo]
[Source R] [is licensed under] [CC BY]
[Media M] [is part of] [Source R]
[Source R] [cites] [Source T]
Q: Extract all statements about species in the order Coleoptera supported by open-licensed sources published in the UK after 1990.
OCrossing the streamsSharing attention
Attention driven from Wikipedia to scholarly journalshttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/apr/08/footnotes-history-wikipedia
Wikipedia needs (expert) attention
On the English Wikipedia only:
2.5M articles assessed as stubs1
20K articles need cleanup2
Hundreds of missing articles sought by at least 1K readers every week3
Eric Fischer: A sidewalk is not just some hunk of concrete. It is something that somebody made. It humanizes the city.
Real-time feeds
Wikipedia calls to action
Women in Science
Wikipedia needs your help
The English Wikipedia article Women in Science needs contributors from a more global perspective. Help expand it!
OCrossing the streamsSharing {content, citation data, attention}
Accelerating OA
Measure impact OA
Drive impact O
Thank you
[email protected] @readermeter
Acknowledgments + inspirationDaniel Mietchen, Theo Patt, Matt Senate, Max Klein, Martin Fenner, Cameron Neylon, Ian Mulvany, Magnus Manske
Image credits
Eric Fischer. 20ht ave https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/8339944818 CC BY
...and a bunch of fair use screenshots