About me

Open Science

The six principles of Open Science

Open Access

Information wants to be free

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Stewart Brand,  Hackers Conference (1984)

In Wikipedia

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons terms

Attribution (recognition)

Share-alike (copyleft)

Non-derivative

Non-commercial

CC-BY-SA (e. g. Wikipedia)

CC-BY-NC-ND (e. g. TED Talks)

https://creativecommons.org/examples/

LIBRE

Aaron Swartz

Film: The Internet's Own Boy

Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig (2002) (source)

Open source

Mozilla 1.0 release party

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Free/Libre Software

Richard M. Stalman as Saint Ignucius

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Eric S. Raymond (source)

Wiki

Wiki-Wiki Bus, Honolulu (source)

Ward Cunningham (source)

Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales (source)

Larry Sanger (source)

Wiki. Editor interface

Wiki. Collaboration & history

Wikipedia Five Pillars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

• Content must be verifiable
  • Content must refer to reliable sources
• No original research is allowed
• No propaganda or marketing is allowed
• It is not a dictionary, manual, etc.
• It is online and real-time

• DISCUSSION: Generalist vs specialist

Citation Needed!

Wikipedia is written from a neutral POV

• Avoid putting opinions as facts
• Put in context if necessary balancing
• Notability
  • Avoid self-promotion, etc.
• Language tone

• DISCUSSION: Conflict of interest
• DISCUSSION: Implicit bias

Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit and distribute

• Nobody "owns" an article
  • Your content can be changed completely
• No plagiarism or copy without permission is allowed
• Copyright must be respected
  • Only libre content is allowed (some exceptions apply - FAIR USE)

Be Bold!

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Editors should treat each other with respect and civility

Wikipedia has no firm rules

Wikipedia as a community

An encyclopedia anyone can edit

In Wikipedia

Bots can also edit!

Diderobot (source)

WikiProjects

Molecular and Cell Biology WikiProject (WP:MCB)

Gene Wiki

Wikipedia Portal

2008 paper

Rfam

Website

Other Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Commons

Wikidata

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Wikidata. Elements

Introduction to Wikidata

Wikidata. Entries

Wikidata entry

Wikidata. Entries

2016 Gene Wiki paper

Wikidata. Querying (SPARQL)

http://tinyurl.com/zcdec8m

Before: DBpedia

Website

WikiCite

Project

Wikis outside Wikimedia

Working the wiki way

SNPedia

Website

WikiPathways

Website

Bioinformatics Unit - CRG

http://biocore.crg.eu

Proteomics Unit - CRG

http://proteowiki.crg.eu

AnnoWiki

Reference

Thursday morning 9th June 2016:

first PRBB biomedical edit-a-thon!

http://bit.ly/wikimaratoPRBB

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