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''This post was [http://lornamcampbell.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/what-i-know-is/ initially published by Lorna Campbell of Cetis] and is republished here under its CC-BY licence''
''This post was written by Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia ambassador''


“We are all publishers now, publishing has never been so ubiquitous” - Padmini Ray Murray
Wikipedia welcomes expert contributions, and is one of the most direct ways to promote public understanding of a subject area, but it isn’t always in researchers’ personal interest to contribute. It may seem as though any time spent writing for Wikipedia is less time to write the research papers which will advance their careers. One scholarly society, and its open access journal, have found how to do both at once.


Earlier this week I was speaking at What I Know Is, an interdisciplinary research symposium on online collaborative knowledge building organised by the [http://www.stir.ac.uk/arts-humanities/about/communications-media-culture/ University of Stirling’s Division of Communications, Media and Culture], together with Wikimedia UK. It was a completely fascinating and eclectic event that covered everything from new models of academic publishing, issues of trust and authorship, non-hierarchical networks of knowledge, extended cognition, collaborative art and the semantics of open.
A paper is a fixed part of the scholarly literature, with a unique citation and the credibility that comes from being peer-reviewed. It will be aimed at a niche audience of other researchers, but will count towards the authors’ prestige, including the formal research assessment processes that shape their careers.


Trust was a recurring theme that ran through the event. Symposium chair Greg Singh touched on fundamental issues of digital literacy and trust in his opening talk and Ally Crockford, the National Library of Scotland’s Wikimedian in residence, explored these themes in a talk about tensions and anxieties that persist around Wikipedia and collaborative authoring. Issues of trust persist around Wikipedia partially due to the unfinished nature of many entries, however Ally argued that the evolving nature of Wikipedia is one of its strengths, you can see the history of everything written there. More fundamentally, Ally argued that Wikipedia democratises knowledge and teaches the value of thinking critically. Wikipedia is no longer a resource, it has become a structure for open access knowledge. Ally also picked up on continued anxiety and distrust of open access policies that lingers in academia, and in the humanities in particular, a sentiment that was echoed by many in the room.
A publicly-editable Wikipedia article lacks that guarantee of reliability, but has benefits of its own. Being editable means that it can change to reflect new knowledge. Readability is enhanced by linking terms to their own explanatory articles. With Wikipedia being massively multilingual, an informative article can be translated into other languages. It may reach a very wide public audience, informing them about theories or discoveries and showing them how a subject is researched. For a researcher, contributing to Wikipedia may benefit their discipline as a whole by informing current and potential students and the wider public, yet it takes time away from activities that get career recognition.


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