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Improving the troubled relationship between Scientists & Wikipedia
Experience of the wikipedian in residence scheme at the Royal Society @RoyalSociety of London as part of the first Wikipedia Science Conference @ExploreWellcome
Duncan Hull
September 02, 2015
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Improving the troubled rela3onship 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 Scien1sts Wikipedia
has NOTHING to say about many notable Scien1sts -
“Mutual Ignorance” Wikipedia Scien1sts Wikipedia has
NOTHING to say about many notable Scien1sts “I use Wikipedia, but I’m unlikely to edit it” -
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) Quan3ta3ve analysis of Wikipedia coverage, EPJ Data Science h[p://doi.org/66r via the Oxford Internet Ins3tute (OII) -
…typically lack very basic informa3on 1. Educa3on?
no X 2. Research? nada X 3. Career? nope X 4. Funding? E.g. orcid.org non X 5. Publica3ons? [Cita3on-‐needed] doi.org naw X 6. Collaborators, PhD students & postdocs? nein X 7. Pictures? (CC-‐BY / CC-‐BY-‐SA license) null X If wiki-‐biographies exist… -
h[ps://xkcd.com/773/ Universi1es typically don’t provide this informa1on…
(if you are lucky) -
h[p://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1487 “Everything you ever wanted to know
about your Professor from ten years ago” –Jorge Cham …Academic homepages don’t either… -
Wikipedia loves celebri3es… e.g. every 3ny detail
of Beckham’s life is documented at h[p://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) Darwin Newton Turing Hodgkin Einstein Hawking Berners-‐Lee Geim Ramakrishnan Blackburn approx: 50 new Fellows / year for 350 years 8000 Fellows (since 1660) 1400 Living (FRS) 160 Foreign (ForMemRS) 160 Women 280 Nobels ( ) -
“Recognise, promote and support excellence in science and
to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity” “… every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge” Note significant overlap -
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 rela3onship 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 subscrip3ons h[p://enwp.org/Wikipedia:Royal_Society_Journals -
Results: FRS coverage 100% of Female Fellows and FRS
from 2014/5 have wiki-‐biographes On average, 30% of 1000 fellows elected in last 20 years have no wiki-‐biography at all (300 total) -
Results: Impact • Images (e.g. in 22 different
languages h[ps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Professor_Mar3n_Hairer_FRS.jpg ) • Data widely re-‐used and highly visible & accessible -
Results: Impact 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/ • 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 ) -
via Google’s Knowledge Graph using data from Wikipedia
Wiki-‐biographies rank highly in search results, owen top result or on the first page -
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
Organiza3on (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 h[ps:// 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:Fibonaccideriva3ve 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 Founda3on. Licensed under CC BY-‐SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – "Elizabeth Blackburn CHF Heritage Day 2012 Rush 001" by Chemical Heritage Founda3on. 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) -‐ Deriva3ve 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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