[open-science] Fwd: [OpenAccess] effort to improve "open science" article on Wikipedia...

Fri Sep 13 17:58:38 UTC 2013

Below is a proposal to use OKCon as an occasion to improve the
Wikipedia articles on open science.
It would be cool to have reviews, edits, media, references and other
contributions from this group.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lane Rasberry <lane at bluerasberry.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:32 PM
Subject: [OpenAccess] effort to improve "open science" article on Wikipedia...
To: Open Access discussions <openaccess at lists.wikimedia.org>, Gabriel
Thullen <gabriel at thullen.com>, Brian Basden <bbasden1 at gmail.com>,
Celya HYPhD <celyagd at hackyourphd.org>, OKFN America <info at okfn.us>,
Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list
<okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>

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.com can 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 and I hope to finish my article
about NY tomorrow!

Here is your open science interview
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 on sept 19th

Pierre Carl Langlais the french wikipedian PdD student is helping to
settle everything.
Here is the draft for different sessions we'd like to organize..
Your advice are welcome

Best

Célya

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HackYourPhD co-founder
#OpenScience community "Lets invent a research more open and transparent!"
Site : hackyourphd.org
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Twitter : @celyagd/ @hackyourphd
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Lane Rasberry
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