Opening Science
the Wiki Way
About me
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)
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)
LIBRE
Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig (2002) (source)
Open source
Free/Libre Software
Richard M. Stalman as Saint Ignucius
(source)
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
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!
Editors should treat each other with respect and civility
Wikipedia has no firm rules
Wikipedia as a community
An encyclopedia anyone can edit
Bots can also edit!
Diderobot (source)
WikiProjects
Gene Wiki
Rfam
Other Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wikidata. Elements
Wikidata. Entries
Wikidata. Entries
Wikidata. Querying (SPARQL)
Before: DBpedia
WikiCite
Wikis outside Wikimedia
Working the wiki way
SNPedia
WikiPathways
Bioinformatics Unit - CRG
Proteomics Unit - CRG
AnnoWiki
Thursday morning 9th June 2016:
first PRBB biomedical edit-a-thon!
Opening Science the Wiki Way
By Similis.cc
Opening Science the Wiki Way
Presentation about Open Science and Wiki technologies, Wikipedia and their underlying principles
