About the session
12.15pm, Wednesday 1st April 2015
Daniel Mietchen - Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin
National Institutes of Health (contractor)
Wikipedia and its sister projects – particularly Wikimedia
Commons, Wikisource and Wikidata – are some of the most popular sources of information, including on topics related to scholarly research. They interact with scholarly resources in multiple ways – they may simply link to, cite or quote them, or suitably licensed scholarly materials may experience a second life when being reused in a new context as part of a Wikimedia project, e.g. on a Wikipedia page or in a Wiktionary entry. It is thus in the interest of the research community to get acquainted with the inner workings of these platforms, as well as with the broader culture of openness that they are embedded in, and that has started to spread into academia. This talk will provide a general introduction to Wikipedia and its sister projects, focusing on the role they play in engaging the public with research. In the spirit of openness, the talk is editable and being developed in public at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_
Mietchen/Talks/UKSG_2015, from where it will also be held.
