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

Fri Sep 13 20:32:21 UTC 2013

looking forward to OKCon - hope to contribute

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Daniel Mietchen <
daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Célya Gruson-Daniel
> HackYourPhD co-founder
> #OpenScience community "Lets invent a research more open and transparent!"
> Site : hackyourphd.org
> Facebook Group / Google group
> Twitter : @celyagd/ @hackyourphd
> Page G+
>
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>
>
>
> --
> Lane Rasberry
> 206.801.0814
> lane at bluerasberry.com
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
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