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]
Wikipedia[edit]
Wikipedia is available in over 300 languages, together getting multiple billions of monthly page views.
Wikimedia Commons[edit]
Wikidata[edit]
Structured data about more than 100 million entities.
COVID-19 on Wikidata[edit]
Structured data about SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695) , COVID-19 (Q84263196) and COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910) .
Other Wikimedia projects[edit]
An example of how each of these projects has its own ways of sharing knowledge around a topic.
The landscape around Wikimedia[edit]
"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]
Wikimedia resources relevant for research[edit]
Scholia provides about 30 types of scholarly profiles, all based on Wikidata (e.g. a person or institution)
Wikimedia for Ecology[edit]
Categories, infoboxes, identifiers, links
Media files[edit]
A carbon cycle diagram available in 18 languages
Articles[edit]
Tools like Citation Hunt assist in improving verifiability.
Structured data[edit]
Structured data from different domains can be queried.
Statistics[edit]
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 (Q60024) .
Organization[edit]
Wikidata context around Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Q679913) .
Geographic distribution[edit]
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
Further reading[edit]
Wikimedia and research[edit]
- Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata (2023)
- Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base (2023)
- The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (2022)
- Developing a scalable framework for partnerships between health agencies and the Wikimedia ecosystem (2021)
- Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (2020)
- Geospatial data and Scholia (2018)
- Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial (2017)
- Wikipedia as a gateway to biomedical research (2017)
- Amplifying the impact of open access: Wikipedia and the diffusion of science (2016)
- Topic Pages: PLoS Computational Biology Meets Wikipedia (2012)
- Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia (2010)
Wikimedia and artificial intelligence[edit]
Contributing to Wikimedia projects[edit]
Listen to the edit stream:
multiple Wikipedias, Wikidata, both, recording
Contributing to Wikidata[edit]
Geolocated Wikidata items, with highlighting of changes between October 2018 and May 2019
Contributing to Wikimedia Commons[edit]
See also Open Access Media Importer.
Contributing to Wikipedia[edit]
There is always room for improvement, and there are initiatives like WikiProject Climate Change or #365climateedits to address that.
Wikifying biodiversity sciences[edit]
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]
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A Wikidata query for topics related to invasion biology
Opening up IPCC/ IPBES reports[edit]
Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports (2022) — non-open licensing and encapsulation in PDFs are an obstacle to reuse of images or citation information
Assessment on Peatlands, Biodiversity, and Climate Change
Wiki99[edit]
Wiki99 for chemistry. What about doing one for ecology or other fields?
Linking arts and sciences[edit]
Reusing Wikimedia infrastructure in research contexts[edit]
- e.g. Wikibase instances like the one in use at MaRDI, the NFDI project for mathematics
Events[edit]
- Data Modelling Days 2023 (30 November - 2 December 2023)
- Anyone interested in wiki excursions?
- Wikimania 2024 (Kraków)
Hands-on[edit]
Ideas[edit]
- express some curation events as nanopublication
- Draft:Peatland restoration
- WikiProjects
- Upload an image from an open-access ecology paper?
Edits made[edit]
- overview
- classifying a chemical
- reverting vandalism
- addressed a warning
- adding an alias
- author disambiguation
- topic tagging
- lexeme started
- English: longbowman
- German:
- lexeme improved
- German: Fettstoffwechsel
Thanks[edit]
Related talks[edit]
- Wikidata and semantic publishing in the biodiversity sciences (2023)
- Ecological knowledge in the open knowledge ecosystem around Wikipedia (2023)
- Wetlands and the Wikimedia ecosystem (2023)
- Biogeosciences and the Wikimedia ecosystem (2023)
- Impact-oriented Citizen Science: The role of Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (2023)
- Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem (2022)
- Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports (2022)
- Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community and Data Perspectives (2020)
- Bridging Science, Art, and Community in the New Arctic through Wikimedia projects (2019)
- Visualizing the research ecosystem of ecosystem research via Wikidata (2018)
- Wikimedia as a platform for scientific information — given at the MPI for Chemical Ecology (2012)