This session by [Martin Poulter][1], the University of Oxford's Wikimedian In Residence, looked at how to make research visible on Wikipedia and related platforms. We discussed:
- an overview of Wikipedia and its sister projects as free and open projects.
- "under the bonnet" of a Wikipedia article: quality reviews, author profiles, and the stats tool
- Wikidata, a platform for free and open data, combining bibliographic, biographical, geographical, taxonomic and other types in one database.
- [Scholia][2], a Wikidata-driven application for scholarly profiles, citation analysis, and visualisation of data about scientific publications. See for example [Dorothy Bishop's profile][3]. This uses entirely open data and can represent publications from any publisher. The Sloan Foundation have announced half a million dollars of funding to make Scholia a more robust platform.
- Journal-to-Wiki publication: reusing open access papers, figures and lay summaries to make Wikipedia articles.
- Tips for interacting with Wikipedia if you want to directly improve articles in your area.
Slides from the workshop are available in the Files section
[1]: http://infobomb.org
[2]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/
[3]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/author/Q16841401