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
every 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.
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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>
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