Opening Science

the Wiki Way

Toni Hermoso Pulido - @toniher

PRBB - Barcelona, June 7th 2016

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

Source

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

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

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

source

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)