Dear fellow Wikimedians and Academics:
My collaborators and I (Matthew Vetter, Sage Ross, Iolanda Pensa) and I (Brett Buttliere), are interested in encouraging academic contributions to Wikimedia, and even ideally making Wikipedia an interface between scientific knowledge and the public, and counting for grant and tenure outcomes. You can read about this idea and work here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Developing_Wikimedia_Impact_Metrics_as_a_Sociotechnical_Solution_for_Encouraging_Funder_and_Academic_Engagement, which also aims to e.g., further secure Wikimedia's space in the open knowledge/ science space.
The point of this email is to call for collaborators in this endeavor, especially in relation to a EU COST action https://www.cost.eu/cost-actions/what-are-cost-actions/, which aims to build networks for developing larger grants in the future. *We search ultimately for representatives from at least 7 (Euro-area) nations*, with at least 50% of the nations coming from the list below. We think Wikimedia is uniquely positioned to succeed here.
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Reunion Island and Saint-Martin (France), Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain) Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine
We have 4 nations that are meeting for the first official time this Friday, July 12, at 2:00pm UTC at the following Zoom link. https://iupvideo.zoom.us/my/dr.vetterzooms https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiupvideo.zoom.us%2Fmy%2Fdr.vetterzooms&data=04%7C01%7Cmvetter%40iup.edu%7Ceabcddcdc5e34932d07f08d8e941af7c%7C96704ed7a3e14bb8ba918b63ee16883e%7C0%7C0%7C637515815627760218%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OHTHISz%2BLi7fy8Pn58lckKsB%2BsMq12yFo7tI9G%2BfI6Q%3D&reserved=0
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If you can’t make the meeting but would like to leave your contact information to make sure you hear about progress, you can fill out the google form https://forms.gle/5b2u7MjG9fNUg7HK7.
Please also forward this email to others who might be interested, or let us know how we can spread the message.
Thank you sincerely, hopefully we can together encourage wikimedia contributions among scientists,
Brett Buttliere (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Matthew Vetter (University of Indiana at Pennsylvania, USA)
Oleksiy Boldyrev (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)
Iolanda Pensa (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland)