Hey all,
we had a productive “strategy meetup” at Wikimania with a group of about 20 people, to talk about the future of WikiCite and a roadmap for source metadata in Wikidata more generally.
The motivation for this meetup was a set of concerns around scalability and “growing pains” around bibliographic and citation data in Wikidata, as well as the need (that many in the community have expressed) for a clearer goal, value proposition, and scope for WikiCite.
The result is a series of notes fleshing out 4 possible scenarios for the future of bibliographic data as structured data—from a centralized scenario to a fully federated one—discussing their possible risks and benefits at the technical, social, and governance level:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiCite/Roadmap
The question these notes try to address is whether Wikimedia should aim to build a “bibliographic commons”, and if so, what it would look like, and where it should live.
This document is not a formal proposal or an RfC open for a vote, but a conversation starter to evaluate what type of future makes most sense for this data and the communities and stakeholders that will benefit from it. A shared understanding on what we’re building towards is also going to help us inform the program of the upcoming WikiCite 2018 conference in November (the application process will open in a few days).
If you wish to share your thoughts on these four scenarios, please chime in on wiki, rather than replying here, to avoid thread splintering (I’m cross-posting this on a few mailing lists).
Dario
on behalf of the meetup participants
This is the OA we like at Wikimedia: CC-BY everywhere!
I wonder why the uptick in CC BY-NC articles since 2016, though. That's
a flaw to address more decisively.
Federico
-------- Messaggio inoltrato --------
Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] OASPA members demonstrate another year of steady
growth in CC BY articles for fully-OA journals
Data: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:02:53 +0100
Mittente: Leyla Williams
Dear all,
We are pleased to report that once again, the recent data OASPA has
collected on articles published with the CC BY license in open access-only
(fully-OA) journals by members of OASPA shows that, for OASPA members,
year-on-year growth remains steady for CC BY articles in fully-OA
peer-reviewed journals. A total of 1,128,721 articles were published with
the CC BY license in open access-only (fully-OA) journals by members of
OASPA during the period 2000-2017, with 219,627 of those being published in
2017 alone.
We are also pleased to report on the growth of the Directory of Open Access
Books (DOAB), which now includes over 10,000 titles.
Our full data and analysis can be found here:
https://oaspa.org/oaspa-members-ccby-growth-2017-data/
Best wishes,
Leyla
—————
Leyla Williams
Events and Communications Coordinator
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA
oaspa.org | Twitter: @OASPA <https://twitter.com/OASPA>
*Hey everybody,If you are an editor of the French, Italian or English
Wikipedia interested to contribute in building technologies for improving
missing citation detection in Wikipedia articles, please read on.As part of
our current work on verifiability
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Integrity>, the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Research team <http://research.wikimedia.org> is studying ways
to use machine learning to flag unsourced statements needing a citation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.
If successful, this project will allow us to identify areas where
identifying high quality citations is particularly urgent or important.To
help with this project, we need to collect high-quality labeled data
regarding individual sentences: whether they need citations, and why. We
created a tool for this purpose and we would like to invite you to
participate in a pilot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.
The annotation task should be fun, short, and straightforward for
experienced Wikipedia editors.If you are interested in participating,
please proceed as follows: - Sign-up by (optionally) adding your name in
the sign-up page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.-
Go to http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/
<http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/>, login, and from 'Labeling
Unsourced Statements’, request one (or more) workset. Each workset takes
maximum 5 minutes to complete and contains 5 tasks. There is no minimum
number of worksets, but of course the more labels you provide, the better.-
For each task in a workset, the tool will show you an unsourced sentence in
an article and ask you to annotate it. You can then label the sentence as
needing an inline citation or not, and specify a reason for your choices. -
If you can't respond, please select 'skip'. If you can respond but you are
not 100% sure about your choice, please select 'Unsure'.If you have any
question/comment, please let us know by sending an email to
miriam(a)wikimedia.org <miriam(a)wikimedia.org> or leaving a message on the
talk page of the project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Identification_of_Unsourced_S…>.
We canrelatively easily adapt the tool if something needs to be
changed.Thank you for your time!Miriam and Dario*
Hey all,
(apologies for cross-posting)
We’re sharing a proposed program
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/CDP…>
for the Wikimedia Foundation’s upcoming fiscal year
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2018-2019/…>
(2018-19) and *would love to hear from you*. This plan builds extensively
on projects and initiatives driven by volunteer contributors and
organizations in the Wikimedia movement, so your input is critical.
Why a “knowledge integrity” program?
Increased global attention is directed at the problem of misinformation and
how media consumers are struggling to distinguish fact from fiction.
Meanwhile, thanks to the sources they cite, Wikimedia projects are uniquely
positioned as a reliable gateway to accessing quality information in the
broader knowledge ecosystem. How can we mobilize these citations as a
resource and turn them into a broader, linked infrastructure of trust to
serve the entire internet? Free knowledge grounds itself in verifiability
and transparent attribution policies. Let’s look at 4 data points as
motivating stories:
- Wikipedia sends tens of millions of people to external sources each
year. We want to conduct research to understand why and how readers leave
our site.
- The Internet Archive has fixed over 4 million dead links on Wikipedia.
We want to enable instantaneous archiving of every link on all Wikipedias
to ensure the long-term preservation of the sources Wikipedians cite.
- #1Lib1Ref reaches 6 million people on social media. We want to bring
#1Lib1Ref to Wikidata and more languages, spreading the message that
references improve quality.
- 33% of Wikidata items represent sources (journals, books, works). We
want to strengthen community efforts to build a high-quality, collaborative
database of all cited and citable sources.
A 5-year vision
Our 5-year vision for the Knowledge Integrity program is to establish
Wikimedia as the hub of a federated, trusted knowledge ecosystem. We plan
to get there by creating:
- A roadmap to a mature, technically and socially scalable, central
repository of sources.
- Developed network of partners and technical collaborators to
contribute to and reuse data about citations.
- Increased public awareness of Wikimedia’s vital role in information
literacy and fact-checking.
5 directions for 2018-2019
We have identified 5 levers of Knowledge Integrity: research,
infrastructure and tooling, access and preservation, outreach, and
awareness. Here’s what we want to do with each:
1. Continue to conduct research to understand how readers access sources
and how to help contributors improve citation quality.
2. Improve tools for linking information to external sources, catalogs,
and repositories.
3. Ensure resources cited across Wikimedia projects are accessible in
perpetuity.
4. Grow outreach and partnerships to scale community and technical
efforts to improve the structure and quality of citations.
5. Increase public awareness of the processes Wikimedians follow to
verify information and articulate a collective vision for a trustable web.
Who is involved?
The core teams involved in this proposal are:
- Wikimedia Foundation Technology’s Research Team
- Wikimedia Foundation Community Engagement’s Programs team (Wikipedia
Library)
- Wikimedia Deutschland Engineering’s Wikidata team
The initiative also spans across an ecosystem of possible partners
including the Internet Archive, ContentMine, Crossref, OCLC, OpenCitations,
and Zotero. It is further made possible by funders including the Sloan,
Gordon and Betty Moore, and Simons Foundations who have been supporting the
WikiCite initiative to date.
How you can participate
You can read the fine details of our proposed year-1 plan, and provide your
feedback, on mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/
wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/CDP3:_Knowledge_Integrity
We’ve also created a brief introductory slidedeck about our motivation and
goals: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_Integrity_
CDP_proposal_%E2%80%93_FY2018-19.pdf
WikiCite has laid the groundwork for many of these efforts. Read last
year’s report: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2017_
report.pdf
Recent initiatives like the just released citation dataset foreshadow the
work we want to do: https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-
knowledge/what-are-the-ten-most-cited-sources-on-
wikipedia-lets-ask-the-data-34071478785a
Lastly, this April we’re celebrating Open Citations Month; it’s right in
the spirit of Knowledge Integrity: https://blog.wikimedia.org/
2018/04/02/initiative-for-open-citations-birthday/
--
*Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
<http://twitter.com/readermeter>
Hello everyone,
sorry for the shameless plug, but few days ago I published a long overdue
blogpost:
https://medium.com/@aubreymcfato/academic-publishing-sci-hub-and-the-ring-t…
I'm sharing this here because I'd welcome feedbacks on it: I spent a lot of
time trying to figure out *why* we're in this situation, and why we can't
get out of it.
I tried to frame academic publishing in terms of power, but I'm not sure I
succeeded.
My question always is: what are the power relationships that leads us to
the status quo? Why can't we change them?
Criticisms/feedbacks/suggestions are welcome.
Cheers
Andrea
Hey all,
as mentioned in a previous thread on the wikicite-discuss list, we'll have
a WikiCite presence at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona in May.
If you're planning to attend and/or wish to pitch specific projects you
want to work on, please add your name to this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/WikiCite
Dario
Each year the Wikipedia Library team, in collaboration with GLAM folks
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) all around the world, asks a
simple favor: Give Wikipedia the gift of a citation for its birthday.
Website:
http://1lib1ref.org
This year Wikipedia turns 17 and it's our third annual #1Lib1Ref campaign.
The 20-day campaign is now in its second week... What's happened so far?
Across the languages we are tracking, editors have added 2097 citations in
21+ languages.
5 languages have made over 100 edits: English, French, Hebrew, Serbian and
Catalan.
View contributions by language:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955590632545726464
On social media #1Lib1Ref is a hype-machine. 37 countries have made 2260
Twitter posts reaching 4.4 million potential readers 8.1 million times.
We invited librarians (and library-lovers) around the world to participate. Our
Wikimedia Blog post, written by #1Lib1Ref originator and GLAM Strategist
Alex Stinson, set the tone and made the case:
Read blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/16/1lib1ref-2018/
The blog included a visual 'explainer' video created by Wikipedia Library
team member Felix Nartey, narrated by famous U.S. Librarian Jessamyn West.
Watch Video:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1Lib1Ref_MySimpleShow_Explainer_Vid…
We promoted the Story of #1lib1ref on social media using an 8-part
TweetStorm:
Read Tweetstorm:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955507752410869760
Also we redesigned a simple new graphic and logo for the campaign:
View Graphic:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955507757880295424/photo/1
Each year #1Lib1Ref grows and brings in more people from libraries, and
more people who believe that Wikipedia and librarians share a mission which
benefits from collaboration. It's an exciting part of our work and we're
very thankful to everyone who adds to its impact and success!
Join in. Make an edit. Teach someone how to add a citation. Share something
nice about the campaign this week in your social media circles. Help share
free knowledge. #1Lib1Ref. Pass it on...
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
Head of The Wikipedia Library
jorlowitz(a)wikimedia.org
@JakeOrlowitz
@WikiLibrary
wikipedialibrary.org
Hey all,
We have some important news to share on behalf of the WikiCite organizers.
First off–in case you missed it–we released our annual report
<https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5648233> last week, and it's been
getting a lot of traction
<https://twitter.com/Wikicite/status/938778592653332480>.
So much has happened over the past 12 months: interest in creating a
collaborative knowledge base of sources to support free knowledge is
growing among libraries, linked data organizations, tool developers, and
many groups in the Wikimedia movement. New contributors and organizations,
that were not part of this community these past 2 years, are now joining us
and we need to make sure WikiCite remains sustainable in years to come.
For this reason, we're working with our funders to ensure the next cycle of
WikiCite events is well supported. We have decided to move our main annual
event <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018> from the spring to
the *fall of 2018*, in order to concentrate our efforts on fundraising and
creating a long term strategic plan.
Ahead of WikiCite 2018, we'll be supporting local events to continue to
grow the community. We'll be present at the *Wikimedia Hackathon* in
Barcelona. We will submit a session proposal to *Wikimania 2018*, and we'll
attend other events of interest to the movement. If you know of any
satellite session or event where WikiCite should have a presence, please let
us know <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/News>.
Should you have any questions for the organizing committee, you can get in
touch at wikicite(a)wikimedia.org.
Best,
Dario and Sarah