Wikipedia Science Conference/Programme

Wednesday 2nd September 2015

Time	Session
10.00	Registration & coffee
10.30	Welcome and opening remarks (Phoebe Harkins and Tom Ziessen, Wellcome Trust)
10.45	Keynote: Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton
11.30	Daniel Mietchen, National Institutes of Health. Wikimedia and Scholarly Communication
12.00	Alex Bateman, European Molecular Biology Laboratory/ European Bioinformatics Institute. Using Wikipedia to annotate Scientific Databases
12.30	Lunch
13.15	Short talks: Ed Saperia, Open Access Reader. Open Access Reader: A project to cite 'all' OA papers in Wikipedia Richard Pinch, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Wikimedia versus academia: a clash of cultures Duncan Hull, University of Manchester, and John Byrne, Wikipedian In Residence at the Royal Society. Improving the troubled relationship between Scientists & Wikipedia
14.00	Jenny Molloy, University of Cambridge/ ContentMine. Challenges and opportunities for Wikipedia and Wikidata in synthetic biology
14.30	Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef. Usage of Digital Object Identifiers across Wikimedia projects
15.00	Refreshments/ networking and sign-ups for unconference
15.30	Daniel Mietchen, National Institutes of Health. Wikidata for Research
16.00	Stefan Kasberger, GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences and Open Knowledge Foundation Austria, ContentMine/ OpenscienceASAP. Wikipedia in an Open Science workflow
16.30	Andy Mabbett, Wikimedian In Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry; and at ORCID. Wikipedia, Wikidata and more - How Can Scientists Help?
17.00	End of first day's programme
19.00	Drinks reception sponsored by Royal Society of Chemistry

Thursday 3rd September 2015

Time	Session
9.30	Coffee, networking and signing up for unconference sessions
10.00	Announcements about unconference, hackathon(s) and future events
10.15	Keynote: Peter Murray Rust, University of Cambridge.
11.00	Darren Logan, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Using Scientific Databases to annotate Wikipedia
11.30	Melissa Highton, University of Edinburgh. Changing the Ways the Stories are Told
12.00	Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus. Developing an Ethical Approach to Using Wikipedia as the Front Matter to all Research
12.30	Lunch
13.15	Unconference block An unconference method was used to put the unconference programme (below) in the hands of the delegates. Refreshments served at 14.30 but unconference continued.
15.00	Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation and Altmetrics.org. Citing as a public service
15.30	Cancer Research UK’s Wikipedian in Residence project – reflections and outcomes Henry Scowcroft, Cancer Research UK. Henry Potts, University College London. John Byrne, Wikipedian In Residence at Cancer Research UK.
16:15	Wrap-up and thanks from Martin Poulter, Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries
16.30	Conference ended
17.00	Post-conference drinks in a nearby pub

Unconference

This is the running order as decided by participants, on the day.

	Main Auditorium	Dining Area	Dale	Franks	Steel
1:20-1:50	BMJ peer review	Your first Wikipedia edit	MediaWiki	Encyclopedism	'Publish-or-die' vs Wikipedia
1:55-2:25	harmonise licensing +	Your first Wikidata edit	ContentMine	Wikimedians in Residence	Wiki Loves Scientists
2:30-3:00	UN Sustainable Development Goals	Wikimedia editing Q+A For all abilities come along if you need help	Wikidata tools	Review the lit (we use this okfn pad)	Wiki Loves Scientists

Details:

• British Medical Journal have offered to provide their best reviewers to peer-review Wikipedia's best medical articles. I'm driving this, and don't want to stuff it up. I need your thoughts and input. (Talking points)
• What can we do to harmonise licensing between Wikimedia properties (CC BY-SA) and Open Access Repositories (CC BY) *Not* an argument about licensing but a discussion about practical steps.
  • Copyright issues as a barrier to open access to knowledge. Current issue at en:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bristol/archive1 relating to copyright law and Freedom of panorama. Touching on UK/International law and ethical/ownership issues.
• ContentMine tools, hands-on demonstration of getpapers & quickscrape.
• Encyclopedism and the Unity of Science
• Wiki Loves Scientists, Create a new biography for a Royal Society scientist via List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2012
• How to review the lit for a WP entry (we meet on this okfn pad)
• When Wikipedia is not the right tool, but MediaWiki is. Explore some issues around using wikis when information/data is either by necessity not open, or not notable
• How can the Wikimedia movement contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (+ Wikipedia page?)