Hello all,
I know there is a FOSS portal but are there any portals for other Open * topics, such as Open Science (including citizen science), Open Access, ect.? The rationale behind is to have these portals as umbrella groups for resources and what's there in these big movement topics and have them in one place- which is Wikipedia. Would this idea be worth it for the other movements?
Thank you.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:58 AM Svetlana Belkin belkinsa@fastmail.fm wrote:
Hello all,
I know there is a FOSS portal
Links/examples almost always help! I'd guess you mean this page or the pages it links to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange but many other people won't know what you're referring to. Please include links when talking about something specific!
but are there any portals for other Open *
topics, such as Open Science (including citizen science), Open Access,
Yes! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_access
ect.?
Maybe these (from a very quick search) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Open_data_publishing and dozens of other local, or smaller, or older pages such as https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Open_Science_Fellows_P... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_Residence_on_Open_Science
The rationale behind is to have these portals as umbrella groups for resources and what's there in these big movement topics and have them in one place- which is Wikipedia. Would this idea be worth it for the other movements?
Yes, please do update / improve the documentation.
If it's a major topic and after searching you cannot find anything central, then perhaps start out by creating a disambiguation / linkhub for the pages that you can find, and expand from there - that way you can try to make sure you've found all the existing pages to begin with, and don't start off by accidentally re-inventing the wheel (portal)! We have a lot of historic link-lists / portals that are started and then abandoned and then accidentally reinvented elsewhere a few years later.
Hope that helps. Quiddity
Quiddity,
Thank you for your reply!
On 3/19/19 9:06 PM, quiddity wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:58 AM Svetlana Belkin belkinsa@fastmail.fm wrote:
Hello all,
I know there is a FOSS portal
Links/examples almost always help! I'd guess you mean this page or the pages it links to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange but many other people won't know what you're referring to. Please include links when talking about something specific!
but are there any portals for other Open *
topics, such as Open Science (including citizen science), Open Access,
Yes! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_access
ect.?
Maybe these (from a very quick search) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Open_data_publishing and dozens of other local, or smaller, or older pages such as https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Open_Science_Fellows_P... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_Residence_on_Open_Science
Looks like that I didn't do my homework before asking this question because I was really referring to the main Wikipedia not the metawiki and I didn't realize that this mailing-list for the metawiki- apologizes that for that!
The rationale behind is to have these portals as umbrella groups for resources and what's there in these big movement topics and have them in one place- which is Wikipedia. Would this idea be worth it for the other movements?
Yes, please do update / improve the documentation.
If it's a major topic and after searching you cannot find anything central, then perhaps start out by creating a disambiguation / linkhub for the pages that you can find, and expand from there - that way you can try to make sure you've found all the existing pages to begin with, and don't start off by accidentally re-inventing the wheel (portal)! We have a lot of historic link-lists / portals that are started and then abandoned and then accidentally reinvented elsewhere a few years later.
I will take on this advice and start working that on that. As a new contributor, I should take the advice of working on the low-hanging fruit rather than starting big.
Thank you again.
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