[okfn-discuss] effort to improve "open science" article on Wikipedia...

Tue Sep 17 14:38:57 UTC 2013

Hello,

There is a team of people who are organizing a sprint to develop the
Wikipedia article on "open science" this Friday, 19 September, at the Open
Knowledge Foundation's OKCon in Geneva. Anyone can contribute to this
effort online.

<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Open_Science_Workshop_%28Geneva%29/References#Main_References
>

*HELP!* To improve the article on open science we need published sources of
information to cite! Who knows any fundamental text, commentary, history,
article, or review of open science as a concept, movement, or practice? We
need help identifying the available sources from which we should draw our
content to summarize on Wikipedia.

If anyone has a source, please go to this Wikipedia article and add it to
the list. Click "edit" at the top of the page to do so. If you cannot
manage Wikipedia, then please just reply with your source to this list.

If anyone has more than a source and can contribute content, then please do
so at
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science>

This is a great opportunity for anyone to make a real difference in
improving access to the information online explaining the concept of open
science. By the way - our late collaborator Aaron Swartz started this
article in English in 2006. He made huge sacrifices which benefited all of
us because he wanted to promote this concept and he was the target of a lot
of discrimination in the recent past because he did restricted things that
even now are becoming standard practices and that we are starting to take
for granted as our rights. The concept of open science was important to him
and is to all of us so if you have time to at least share a source of
information then participate in your community and think of adding content
to the movement.

yours,

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane at bluerasberry.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This email talks about an upcoming effort to develop the Wikipedia article
> on "open science" at the the Open Knowledge Foundation conference 16-18
> September in Geneva and online. The request is that anyone who is able
> should consider submitting something to that Wikipedia article - or to this
> list for those unfamiliar with Wikipedia - so that people can learn more
> about open science. The rest of this email talks about that - there is no
> need to read further if you are not interested in participating.
>
> *Why this matters*
> One way to describe open science is to say that it is the idea that all
> science intended to be made available should be made available. Right now
> there are barriers to collaboration in science, including inability of
> researchers to read papers (lack of open access) and inability of
> researchers to share data (lack of open data).
>
> Since the Wikipedia article on "open science" is the first returned result
> for a search engine query on the topic, securing the usefulness of this
> Wikipedia article is probably a prerequisite to anticipating that mass
> media will ever talk about open science and thus encourage a social
> movement.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science>
>
> *How anyone can help*
> The easiest way that anyone can develop any Wikipedia article is to make
> sure that all major sources describing a topic are at least cited and
> mentioned in the references section of that Wikipedia article. If sources
> are not identified, then no one can develop the article. Please look at the
> sources already cited and if anyone knows a fundamental source of "open
> science" not mentioned in this article then please post it on Wikipedia or
> if that is not possible, mention it in this mailing list.
>
> Otherwise, anyone can edit Wikipedia at any time. Feel free to jump in by
> going to any Wikipedia article and clicking "edit" at the top of the page.
> If you do something wrong then I assure you that your contribution will be
> salvaged and integrated by others.
>
> Although the conference and drive to improve this article is 16-18
> September, actually you can feel free to contribute to Wikipedia at any
> time.
>
> *Who can do this*
> Stakeholders in the public perception of the concept of "open science"
> should consider that at least this project will influence them, just
> because this article will be for the foreseeable future the central source
> of information on this topic. Anyone who likes can give input.
>
> This effort is being organized by Ceyla of HackYourPhD.org. She just went
> on an international open science tour and documented an oral history of
> open science. She will be at OKCon in Geneva and can assist people at that
> conference. I [[user:bluerasberry]] on Wikipedia or lane at bluerasberry.comcan assist people on Wikipedia or otherwise online.
> <http://hackyourphd.org/en/> Ceyla - at the conference
> *<https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay> <------- Most
> details planned here *
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry> Lane - online only
>
> The P2P Foundation is an organizational overseer in this effort.
> <http://p2pfoundation.net/>
>
> I would also like to advertise that there is a mailing list for the
> Wikipedia community about internal policy on open access - open access
> advocates may want to subscribe to this here.
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess>
>
> Also I would like to advertise that I recognize the Open Knowledge
> Foundation as a major international player in promoting community
> discussion about open science and related topics.
>
> Finally I would like to point to Gabriel Thullen and Brian as active
> Wikipedians who live in Geneva. I have no idea whether they might be able
> to say hello to any open science fans attending this conference but they do
> both know Wikipedia and they do what they can to promote access to
> information in Switzerland and beyond. Gabriel is especially interested in
> getting youth to edit Wikipedia and Brian contributes to health content on
> Wikipedia.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GastelEtzwane>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Biosthmors> <--- pressed for time but
> friendly online
>
> Thanks for your attention! There is a concerted effort to improve articles
> on open science and open access before the summer of 2014, when at
> Wikimania, the international Wikipedia conference, we are making a media
> push for recognition that Wikipedians and others need access to information
> to make the articles that people are demanding!
>
> yours,
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: CelyaHYPhd <celyagd at hackyourphd.org>
> Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM
> Subject: Some news..
> To: Lane Rasberry <lane at bluerasberry.com>
>
>
> Hi Lane
>
> How are you?
>
> The last steps of my travel were really busy. Since one week now, I've had
> more time to put the last interviews online. I also wrote some articles
> about Boston and Montréal<http://hackyourphd.org/en/2013/09/9th-to-20th-august-open-science-montreal-boston-world-of-bubbles/>and I hope to finish my article about NY tomorrow!
>
> Here is your open science interview<https://soundcloud.com/hackyourphd/hyphdus-lane-rasberry-wikipedia-health>
>
> I read also your comments about Kay's article about the Mozilla Science
> Lab.
>
> Thats why I wanted t to let you know that we will certainly organize an
> OpenScience wikisprint with the P2Pfoundation and Wikipedia during the OKcon
> Hackday <http://okcon.org/> on sept 19th
>
> Pierre Carl Langlais the french wikipedian PdD student is helping to
> settle everything.
> Here is the draf <https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay>t
> for different sessions we'd like to organize..
> Your advice are welcome
>
>
> Best
>
> Célya
>
>
>
> --
>  Célya Gruson-Daniel
> HackYourPhD co-founder
> #OpenScience community "Lets invent a research more open and transparent!"
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>
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>
>
>
> --
> Lane Rasberry
> 206.801.0814
> lane at bluerasberry.com
>

-- 
Lane Rasberry
206.801.0814
lane at bluerasberry.com
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