I've just been talking to Daniel Mietchen who is a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Science. This position has just been profiled on the Wikimedia blog, [1] and will be discussed in next week's Signpost.
He has suggested that Wikimedia UK could perhaps have an editathon or event around the Science Online conference in September in London.
In addition people may want to attend the event to represent Wikimedia UK. [2]
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/20/joining-forces-with-open-science/ [2] http://solo11.eventbrite.com/
Hi Tom, Daniel, all,
There are already plans afoot here. :-) On the day before the conference, Martin Poulter's organising a Wikipedia Workshop for the Institute of Physics (which has obvious overlaps in terms of audience with this conference): http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_Workshop and during the conference itself, Henry Scowcroft of Cancer Research UK is organising a session on "How are wikis being used to carry out and communicate science?" which I'm involved in - suggestions of people/groups to involve in that session would be most welcome. There's also a couple of other related elements in the works.
I'm mostly viewing this as an outreach activity, encouraging people to join in editing, rather than something that's community-focused (which editathons tend to be).
Thanks, Mike P.S. this follows on from WMUK's involvement in Science Online London 2009, where I gave a panel presentation on Wikipedia.
On 21 Jul 2011, at 16:42, Tom Morris wrote:
I've just been talking to Daniel Mietchen who is a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Science. This position has just been profiled on the Wikimedia blog, [1] and will be discussed in next week's Signpost.
He has suggested that Wikimedia UK could perhaps have an editathon or event around the Science Online conference in September in London.
In addition people may want to attend the event to represent Wikimedia UK. [2]
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/20/joining-forces-with-open-science/ [2] http://solo11.eventbrite.com/
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Hi Mike,
this all sounds good to me. I think I could attend the afternoon part of the IoP workshop and could help out with articles related to biophysics, open access or open science.
As for your solo11 session, I saw that you had planned for Sci 3.0 involvement - what did you have in mind there? Have discussed this with Mark, and we see two main areas that could fit: http://figshare.com/ and http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:OpenScientist/Open_grant_writing_-_Encyc... (a follow-up on http://www.science3point0.com/coaspedia/ ). I could also offer thoughts on citing versioned sources (as per http://okcon.org/2011/programme/citing-versioned-sources ) and of course on the Wikimedian in Residence projects.
As for others to invite, there would be the usual Open Notebook Science suspects (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Notebook_Science#Active ), most of which use wikis (Carl Boettiger switched from OpenWetWare to Wordpress some months ago, which may be worth some discussion). It could also be interesting to have someone from https://github.com/ehec-outbreak-crowdsourced/BGI-data-analysis/wiki (e.g. Mark Pallen from Birmingham, quoted in http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110721/full/news.2011.430.html ).
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi Tom, Daniel, all,
There are already plans afoot here. :-) On the day before the conference, Martin Poulter's organising a Wikipedia Workshop for the Institute of Physics (which has obvious overlaps in terms of audience with this conference): http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_Workshop and during the conference itself, Henry Scowcroft of Cancer Research UK is organising a session on "How are wikis being used to carry out and communicate science?" which I'm involved in - suggestions of people/groups to involve in that session would be most welcome. There's also a couple of other related elements in the works.
I'm mostly viewing this as an outreach activity, encouraging people to join in editing, rather than something that's community-focused (which editathons tend to be).
Thanks, Mike P.S. this follows on from WMUK's involvement in Science Online London 2009, where I gave a panel presentation on Wikipedia.
On 21 Jul 2011, at 16:42, Tom Morris wrote:
I've just been talking to Daniel Mietchen who is a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Science. This position has just been profiled on the Wikimedia blog, [1] and will be discussed in next week's Signpost.
He has suggested that Wikimedia UK could perhaps have an editathon or event around the Science Online conference in September in London.
In addition people may want to attend the event to represent Wikimedia UK. [2]
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/20/joining-forces-with-open-science/ [2] http://solo11.eventbrite.com/
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
I'm attending the conference as part of my day-job. With my attendance being funded by my new employer, I won't be able to officially represent WMUK, and will focus on sessions that are relevant to the job. Then again, if any fellow attendee wants to ask me why I'm wearing a Wikipedia t-shirt, badge, medallion, and cape, they're welcome to start a conversation.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Mike,
this all sounds good to me. I think I could attend the afternoon part of the IoP workshop and could help out with articles related to biophysics, open access or open science.
As for your solo11 session, I saw that you had planned for Sci 3.0 involvement - what did you have in mind there? Have discussed this with Mark, and we see two main areas that could fit: http://figshare.com/ and http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:OpenScientist/Open_grant_writing_-_Encyc... (a follow-up on http://www.science3point0.com/coaspedia/ ). I could also offer thoughts on citing versioned sources (as per http://okcon.org/2011/programme/citing-versioned-sources ) and of course on the Wikimedian in Residence projects.
As for others to invite, there would be the usual Open Notebook Science suspects (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Notebook_Science#Active ), most of which use wikis (Carl Boettiger switched from OpenWetWare to Wordpress some months ago, which may be worth some discussion). It could also be interesting to have someone from https://github.com/ehec-outbreak-crowdsourced/BGI-data-analysis/wiki (e.g. Mark Pallen from Birmingham, quoted in http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110721/full/news.2011.430.html ).
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi Tom, Daniel, all,
There are already plans afoot here. :-) On the day before the conference, Martin Poulter's organising a Wikipedia Workshop for the Institute of Physics (which has obvious overlaps in terms of audience with this conference): http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_Workshop and during the conference itself, Henry Scowcroft of Cancer Research UK is organising a session on "How are wikis being used to carry out and communicate science?" which I'm involved in - suggestions of people/groups to involve in that session would be most welcome. There's also a couple of other related elements in the works.
I'm mostly viewing this as an outreach activity, encouraging people to join in editing, rather than something that's community-focused (which editathons tend to be).
Thanks, Mike P.S. this follows on from WMUK's involvement in Science Online London 2009, where I gave a panel presentation on Wikipedia.
On 21 Jul 2011, at 16:42, Tom Morris wrote:
I've just been talking to Daniel Mietchen who is a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Science. This position has just been profiled on the Wikimedia blog, [1] and will be discussed in next week's Signpost.
He has suggested that Wikimedia UK could perhaps have an editathon or event around the Science Online conference in September in London.
In addition people may want to attend the event to represent Wikimedia UK. [2]
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/20/joining-forces-with-open-science/ [2] http://solo11.eventbrite.com/
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
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