Cross posting from Wikimedia-l as I know some UK folks will have some very useful insights here. Please reply all as I have copied Erlend on this email.

Thank you,

Stevie

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erlend Bjørtvedt erlend@wikimedia.no Date: 24 November 2014 at 08:57 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Need help about Wikipedia in science To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Dear colleagues,

I need your help.

In a weeks time, I am invited by the Norwegian Science Council to meet them and lecture and discuss about how they can nurture and contribute to the Wikipedia.

The Science Council (Forskningsrådet) organizes all the universities, colleges, and institutes sector as regards research, through funding and program evalution.

The task is that they will first produce a "do-it-your-self-kit" to scientists and researchers on how they can fulfill they obligation of educating the public. Thereafter, they will work more targetedly with pinpointing and contributing directly to the Wikipedia, probably Commons too.

Our good partners in the Arts Council Norway have already worked with us for a long time on their public outreach obligation, and will take part in the meeting and speak about how they have nurtured the outreach of cultural heritage through Wikipedia and Commons.

QUESTION:

Where can I find good overviews of:

- Examples of universities or institutions who have "used" Wikipedia to educate the public

- Examples of professions or individual researchers who have done the same

- Examples of formal co-operations between science and Wikimedia movement, as reference

- Examples from your chapter of co-operation with science / universities

Thank you all,

Erlend

-- *Erlend Bjørtvedt* Nestleder, Wikimedia Norge Vice chairman, Wikimedia Norway Mob: +47 - 9225 9227 http://no.wikimedia.org http://no.wikimedia.org/wiki/About_us _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe