Improving the Troubled Relajonship Between Scienjsts & Wikipedia

Improving the Troubled Relajonship Between Scienjsts & Wikipedia

Improving the troubled relaonship between Scien3sts & 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 scien1sts… Wikipedia Sciensts Wikipedia doesn’t love scien1sts… 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) Quan3tave analysis of Wikipedia coverage, EPJ Data Science hp://doi.org/66r via the Oxford Internet Ins3tute (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 h[p://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1487 Wikipedia loves celebries… e.g. every 3ny detail of Beckham’s life is documented at hp://enwp.org/ David_Beckham yet it has nothing to say about equivalent scien3sts Many notable scien3sts are Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) Darwin Newton Turing Hodgkin Einstein Hawking Berners-Lee Geim Ramakrishnan Blackburn Many notable scien3sts 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 par3cularly Women in Wikipedia • Internal training sessions ran at the Royal Society h[p://enwp.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Royal_Society • Ongoing relaonship and understanding between Royal Society and Wikipedia editors Results: Data published • 118 high quality, high-resolu3on portraits published CC-BY-SA (2014 & 2015) • h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Category:Images_released_by_the_Royal_Society • Biographical data published at h[p://www.royalsociety.org released CC-BY-SA allowing easier re-use on Wikipedia and elsewhere • Journal subscrip3on offer renewed & extended to 75 subscripons h[p://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_Mar3n_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 h[p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ) Data from 1. h[p://stats.grok.se/ 2. h[ps://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/ 3. h[ps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/11/new-images-released-are-quickly-put-to-use/ Wiki-biographies rank highly in search results, owen top result or on the first page via Google’s Knowledge Graph using data from Wikipedia Where next? • We need more scien3st editors to help… – Be[er reflect Scien3sts (and Science) in Wikipedia – Create new biographies that don’t exist yet – Improve exis3ng biographies • Maybe if Wikipedia loved scien3st a bit more, they might be more inclined to edit it? • More pictures available under CC-BY license e.g. – royalsociety.org/library/collec3ons – h[ps://pictures.royalsociety.org • More learned socie3es (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, Ins3tute of Physics, Linnean Society, IET, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Society of Biology… etc web wiki-loves-scien3sts.org.uk twi[er @wikiscien3sts • 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 scien3sts you don’t know personally for Neutral Point of View (NPOV) • Might encourage more scien3st editors? *According to hps:// wikimania2015.wikimedia.org /wiki/Submissions/ The_next_million_ar3cles_in_ Wikipedia Acknowledgements • Paul Nurse @TheCrick, Francis Bacon, Emma Tennant, David Silverthorne, Aosaf Afzal @RoyalSociety • Mar3n Poulter, University of Bristol @mlpoulter • Wikimedia UK @WikimediaUK • All the contributors to wiki-biographies (too numerous to men3on here) Image credits • "Mad scien3st transparent background" by Converted to PNG by User:Wapcaplet.Converted from PNG to SVG by User:An3lived.Background removed by User:Zzyzx11. - Image:Mad scien3st.svg (Caricature of a mad scien3st drawn by User:J.J.). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mad_scien3st_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 - h[ps://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 - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jorge_Cham-EPFL_mg_2892.jpg • "GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689" by Sir Godfrey Kneller - h[p://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/art/portrait.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - h[ps://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 Le[ers, edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1892.Scanned by User:Davepape. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - h[ps://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 - h[ps://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 - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_(Nobel).png • "Alan Turing Aged 16" by Unknown - h[p://www.turingarchive.org/viewer/?id=521&3tle=4. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - h[ps://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 - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Nurse_portrait.jpg • "Dorothy Hodgkin Nobel" by Unknown - h[p://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/. Via Wikipedia - h[ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dorothy_Hodgkin_Nobel.jpg • "Stephen Hawking.StarChild" by NASA - Original. Source (StarChild Learning Center). Directory lis3ng.. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - h[ps://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 - h[ps://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 - h[ps://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 - h[ps://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 - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Blackburn_CHF_Heritage_Day_2012_Rush_001.JPG • "Professor Mar3n Hairer FRS" by Royal Society uploader - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Professor_Mar3n_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 - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMUK_Royal_Society_Diversity_editathon_2014-03-25_05.jpg • "Boys image in a distor3ng mirror" by Gaius Cornelius - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boys_image_in_a_distor3ng_mirror.jpg • "Nobel Prize" by Photograph: JonathunderMedal: Erik Lindberg (1873-1966) - Derivave of File:NobelPrize.JPG. Via Wikipedia - h[ps://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 - h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Love_Heart_with_arrow.svg .

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