Wikipedia Science Conference/Programme
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Wednesday 2nd September 2015
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 10.00 |
Registration & coffee |
| 10.30 | Welcome and opening remarks (Phoebe Harkins and Tom Ziessen, Wellcome Trust) |
| 10.45 | Keynote: Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton
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| 11.30 | Daniel Mietchen, National Institutes of Health. Wikimedia and Scholarly Communication
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| 12.00 | Alex Bateman, European Molecular Biology Laboratory/ European Bioinformatics Institute. Using Wikipedia to annotate Scientific Databases |
| 12.30 |
Lunch |
| 13.15 | Short talks:
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| 14.00 | Jenny Molloy, University of Cambridge/ ContentMine. Challenges and opportunities for Wikipedia and Wikidata in synthetic biology |
| 14.30 | Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef. Usage of Digital Object Identifiers across Wikimedia projects |
| 15.00 |
Refreshments/ networking and sign-ups for unconference |
| 15.30 | Daniel Mietchen, National Institutes of Health. Wikidata for Research |
| 16.00 | Stefan Kasberger, GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences and Open Knowledge Foundation Austria, ContentMine/ OpenscienceASAP. Wikipedia in an Open Science workflow |
| 16.30 | Andy Mabbett, Wikimedian In Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry; and at ORCID. Wikipedia, Wikidata and more - How Can Scientists Help? |
| 17.00 |
End of first day's programme |
| 19.00 |
Drinks reception sponsored by Royal Society of Chemistry |
Thursday 3rd September 2015
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9.30 |
Coffee, networking and signing up for unconference sessions |
| 10.00 | Announcements about unconference, hackathon(s) and future events |
| 10.15 | Keynote: Peter Murray Rust, University of Cambridge. |
| 11.00 | Darren Logan, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Using Scientific Databases to annotate Wikipedia |
| 11.30 | Melissa Highton, University of Edinburgh. Changing the Ways the Stories are Told |
| 12.00 | Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus. Developing an Ethical Approach to Using Wikipedia as the Front Matter to all Research |
| 12.30 |
Lunch |
| 13.15 | Unconference block An unconference method was used to put the unconference programme (below) in the hands of the delegates. Refreshments served at 14.30 but unconference continued. |
| 15.00 | Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation and Altmetrics.org. Citing as a public service |
| 15.30 | Cancer Research UK’s Wikipedian in Residence project – reflections and outcomes
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| 16:15 | Wrap-up and thanks from Martin Poulter, Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries |
| 16.30 |
Conference ended |
| 17.00 | Post-conference drinks in a nearby pub |
Unconference
This is the running order as decided by participants, on the day.
| Main Auditorium |
Dining
Area |
Dale | Franks | Steel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:20-1:50 | BMJ peer review | Your first Wikipedia edit | MediaWiki | Encyclopedism | 'Publish-or-die' vs Wikipedia |
| 1:55-2:25 | harmonise licensing + |
Your first Wikidata edit | ContentMine | Wikimedians in Residence | Wiki Loves Scientists |
| 2:30-3:00 | UN Sustainable Development Goals | Wikimedia editing Q+A For all abilities come along if you need help |
Wikidata tools | Review the lit (we use this okfn pad) | Wiki Loves Scientists |
Details:
- British Medical Journal have offered to provide their best reviewers to peer-review Wikipedia's best medical articles. I'm driving this, and don't want to stuff it up. I need your thoughts and input. (Talking points)
- What can we do to harmonise licensing between Wikimedia properties (CC BY-SA) and Open Access Repositories (CC BY) *Not* an argument about licensing but a discussion about practical steps.
- Copyright issues as a barrier to open access to knowledge. Current issue at en:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bristol/archive1 relating to copyright law and Freedom of panorama. Touching on UK/International law and ethical/ownership issues.
- ContentMine tools, hands-on demonstration of getpapers & quickscrape.
- Encyclopedism and the Unity of Science
- Wiki Loves Scientists, Create a new biography for a Royal Society scientist via List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2012
- How to review the lit for a WP entry (we meet on this okfn pad)
- When Wikipedia is not the right tool, but MediaWiki is. Explore some issues around using wikis when information/data is either by necessity not open, or not notable
- How can the Wikimedia movement contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (+ Wikipedia page?)