Improving the troubled relaonship

between Sciensts & Wikipedia Duncan Hull @dullhunk University of Manchester & John Byrne User:Johnbod Wikipedian in Residence Royal Society & CRUK Wikipedia Science Conference @WellcomeTrust London 2nd & 3rd September 2015 Wikipedia doesn’t love sciensts… Wikipedia Sciensts Wikipedia doesn’t love sciensts… Wikipedia Sciensts

Wikipedia has NOTHING to say about many notable Sciensts “Mutual Ignorance” Wikipedia Sciensts

Wikipedia has “I use NOTHING to Wikipedia, but say about I’m unlikely to many notable edit it” Sciensts The “distorted mirror of Wikipedia”… The “distorted mirror of Wikipedia”…

“Wikipedia failed in covering notable scholars properly ... might be producing an inaccurate image of academics on the front end of science.”

Samoilenko & Yasseri (2014) Quantave analysis of Wikipedia coverage, EPJ Data Science hp://doi.org/66r via the Oxford Internet Instute (OII)

If wiki-biographies exist… …typically lack very basic informaon 1. Educaon? no X 2. Research? nada X 3. Career? nope X 4. Funding? E.g. orcid.org non X 5. Publicaons? [Citaon-needed] doi.org naw X 6. Collaborators, PhD students & postdocs? nein X 7. Pictures? (CC-BY / CC-BY-SA license) null X Universies typically don’t provide this informaon…

Credit: Randall Munroe hps://xkcd.com/773/ Universies typically don’t provide this informaon…

(if you are lucky)

hps://xkcd.com/773/ …Academic homepages don’t either…

“Everything you ever wanted to know about your Professor from ten years ago” –Jorge Cham

hp://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1487 Wikipedia loves celebries… e.g. every ny detail of Beckham’s life is documented at hp://enwp.org/ David_Beckham yet it has nothing to say about equivalent sciensts Many notable sciensts are Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS)

Darwin Newton Turing Hodgkin Einstein

Hawking Berners-Lee Geim Ramakrishnan Blackburn Many notable sciensts are Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS)

approx: 50 new Fellows / year for 350 years Darwin Newton Turing Hodgkin Einstein 8000 Fellows (since 1660)

1400 Living (FRS) 160 Foreign (ForMemRS) 160 Women 280 Nobels ( )

Hawking Berners-Lee Geim Ramakrishnan Blackburn “Recognise, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity” Note significant overlap

“… every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge” How about a Wikipedian in Residence @RoyalSociety? How about a Wikipedian in Residence @RoyalSociety?

YES! Results: Edit-a-thons Results: Edit-a-thons

• 3 public edit-a-thons, focused on diversity parcularly Women in Wikipedia • Internal training sessions ran at the Royal Society hp://enwp.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Royal_Society • Ongoing relaonship and understanding between Royal Society and Wikipedia editors Results: Data published

• 118 high quality, high-resoluon portraits published CC-BY-SA (2014 & 2015) • hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Category:Images_released_by_the_Royal_Society

• Biographical data published at hp://www.royalsociety.org released CC-BY-SA allowing easier re-use on Wikipedia and elsewhere

• Journal subscripon offer renewed & extended to 75 subscripons hp://enwp.org/Wikipedia:Royal_Society_Journals Results: FRS coverage

On average, 30% of 1000 fellows elected in last 20 years have no wiki-biography at all (300 total)

100% of Female Fellows and FRS from 2014/5 have wiki-biographes Results: Impact • Images (e.g. in 22 different languages hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Professor_Marn_Hairer_FRS.jpg ) • Data widely re-used and highly visible & accessible

Results: Impact

• Images: about 40k page views a month, biggest spike 100k views (due to Fields Medal) • Biography pages: ~1k page views per month (for hp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki )

Data from 1. hp://stats.grok.se/ 2. hps://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/ 3. hps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/11/new-images-released-are-quickly-put-to-use/

Wiki-biographies rank highly in search results, oen top result or on the first page

via Google’s Knowledge Graph using data from Wikipedia Where next?

• We need more scienst editors to help… – Beer reflect Sciensts (and Science) in Wikipedia – Create new biographies that don’t exist yet – Improve exisng biographies

• Maybe if Wikipedia loved scienst a bit more, they might be more inclined to edit it?

• More pictures available under CC-BY license e.g. – royalsociety.org/library/collecons – hps://pictures.royalsociety.org

• More learned sociees (and funding bodies) to employ wikipedians in residence

Where next?

Wikipedians in residence at European Molecular Biology Organizaon (EMBO), Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal Academy of Engineering, Zoological Society of London, Instute of Physics, Linnean Society, IET, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Society of Biology… etc web wiki-loves-sciensts.org.uk twier @wikisciensts

• Wikipedia pages (and data) are used by thousands of people (and machines) around the globe: 26 million page views per hour*

• Entertaining to edit biographies of sciensts you don’t know personally for Neutral Point of View (NPOV)

• Might encourage more scienst editors? *According to hps:// wikimania2015.wikimedia.org /wiki/Submissions/ The_next_million_arcles_in_ Wikipedia Acknowledgements

• Paul Nurse @TheCrick, Francis Bacon, Emma Tennant, David Silverthorne, Aosaf Afzal @RoyalSociety • Marn Poulter, University of Bristol @mlpoulter • Wikimedia UK @WikimediaUK • All the contributors to wiki-biographies (too numerous to menon here) Image credits

• "Mad scienst transparent background" by Converted to PNG by User:Wapcaplet.Converted from PNG to SVG by User:Anlived.Background removed by User:Zzyzx11. - Image:Mad scienst.svg (Caricature of a mad scienst drawn by User:J.J.). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mad_scienst_transparent_background.svg • "Broken heart" by Corazón.svg: User:Fibonacciderivave work: Eviatar Bach (talk) - Corazón.svg. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broken_heart.svg • "Jorge Cham-EPFL mg 2892" by Rama - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 fr via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jorge_Cham-EPFL_mg_2892.jpg • "GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689" by Sir Godfrey Kneller - hp://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/art/portrait.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg • "Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron 2" by Julia Margaret Cameron - Reprinted in Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Leers, edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1892.Scanned by User:Davepape. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2.jpg • "Beckswimbledon" by Brian MInkoff-London Pixels - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beckswimbledon.jpg • "Albert Einstein (Nobel)" by Unknown - Official 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics photograph. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_(Nobel).png • "Alan Turing Aged 16" by Unknown - hp://www.turingarchive.org/viewer/?id=521&tle=4. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Turing_Aged_16.jpg • "Paul Nurse portrait" by Not specified in the OTRS submission - OTRS submission by Ryoko Mandeville on behalf of Paul Nurse. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Nurse_portrait.jpg • "Dorothy Hodgkin Nobel" by Unknown - hp://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/. Via Wikipedia - hps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dorothy_Hodgkin_Nobel.jpg • "Stephen Hawking.StarChild" by NASA - Original. Source (StarChild Learning Center). Directory lisng.. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg • "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" by Paul Clarke - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Tim_Berners-Lee.jpg • Andre Geim "Andre Geim 2010-1" by Holger Motzkau 2010, Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (cc-by-sa-3.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andre_Geim_2010-1.jpg • "Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-08" by © Prolineserver 2010, Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (cc-by-sa-3.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_Prize_2009-Press_Conference_KVA-08.jpg • "Elizabeth Blackburn CHF Heritage Day 2012 Rush 001" by Chemical Heritage Foundaon. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – "Elizabeth Blackburn CHF Heritage Day 2012 Rush 001" by Chemical Heritage Foundaon. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Blackburn_CHF_Heritage_Day_2012_Rush_001.JPG • "Professor Marn Hairer FRS" by Royal Society uploader - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Professor_Marn_Hairer_FRS.jpg • "WMUK Royal Society Diversity editathon 2014-03-25 05" by Chris McKenna - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMUK_Royal_Society_Diversity_editathon_2014-03-25_05.jpg • "Boys image in a distorng mirror" by Gaius Cornelius - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boys_image_in_a_distorng_mirror.jpg • "Nobel Prize" by Photograph: JonathunderMedal: Erik Lindberg (1873-1966) - Derivave of File:NobelPrize.JPG. Via Wikipedia - hps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_Prize.png • "Love Heart with arrow" by Nevit Dilmen (talk) - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - hps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Love_Heart_with_arrow.svg