A reminder that this will be streamed today at 9pm CET / 12pm PST You can join the conversation via IRC on #wikimedia-office
Dario > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Dario Taraborelli <dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> > > Come and join us for a brown bag this Friday December 4 at 12 PT to learn > about unique identifiers and scholarly citations in Wikipedia, why they > matter and how we can bridge the gap between the Wikimedia, research and > librarian communities. > > Wikipedia as the front matter to all research > > YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA> > Event information on Meta: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_research > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_research> > > > Measuring citizen engagement with the scholarly literature through Wikipedia > citations. > Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef > > Wikipedia (in toto) is probably the 5th largest referrer of citations to the > scholarly literature. That is, more Wikipedia users click on and follow > citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from any > single scholarly publisher in the world. What does this tell us about general > interest in the scholarly literature? What does this tell us about scholarly > engagement with editing Wikipedia articles? The short answer is “we don’t > know.” But we are actively working with Wikimedia to find out. > > Building the sum of all human citations > Dario Taraborelli, WIkimedia Foundation > > As sourcing and verifiability of online information are threatened > <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citing-as-a-public-service-building-the-sum-of-all-human-citations> > by the explosion of answer engines and the changing habits of web users, > Wikimedia has an outstanding opportunity to extract and store source data for > any conceivable statement and make it transparently verifiable by its users. > In this talk, I’ll present a grassroots effort > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to > create a human-curated, comprehensive repository of all human citations in > Wikidata. > > ––––––––––––– > Bonus read: a real-time tracker of scholarly citations added to Wikipedia, > built with Raspberry Pi > http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-zero.html > > <http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-zero.html> > Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> • nitens.org <http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
