On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

As of today, I am Wikipedian in Residence [1] at ORCID [2]. The role is described in [3]. Please let me know if I can assist you, in that capacity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ORCID

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID

[3] http://orcid.org/blog/2014/06/04/announcing-orcid%E2%80%99s-wikipedian-resid...

-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Congrats, Andy!

Coincidentally, as part of my day job, I was just looking into how we treat ORCIDs and other author ID schemes in Wikidata. One thing I discovered poking around by hand is that it is quite difficult to match up who has ORCIDs (not every researcher) with who has a Wikipedia article (also not every researcher). I think it would be great to use ORCID's API to search for article subjects who might have ORCIDs (though I think that list would have to be confirmed/matched by hand, because of lots of ambiguity around similar names in ORCID if there's no other information -- maybe a task for another Wikidata game :) )

Anyway, I'd be happy to chat offlist or somewhere else about it, but I am glad to see they're reaching out to Wikipedia and that you're involved!

cheers, Phoebe