Wikipedia Science Conference/Submissions/From Wiki Society to Royal Society: experience with biographies of living scientists
This has been accepted as a lightning talk. MartinPoulter (talk) 17:15, 16 May 2015 (BST)
Personal details
- Your name
Duncan Hull (User:Duncan.Hull) and John Byrne (User:Johnbod)
- Affiliation
University of Manchester /
- How can we contact you?
duncan.hull
manchester.ac.uk
- Where will you be travelling from to attend this conference?
Manchester UK
- Availability
Both days
Session details
- Conference themes
- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for promoting informed public discussion
- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for research (including citizen science)
- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as models for scientific publishing
- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for scientific education
- Under-represented groups in STEM subjects
- Type of session
- Presentation (20 mins + 10 mins questions)
- This format is suitable for reporting on substantial work in the area defined by the conference themes, or taking an overview of work done.
- Lightning talk/demo (10 mins)
- This format is suitable for, but not limited to; floating ideas, giving personal perspectives, highlighting research that is in progress, demonstrating tools or resources.
- Further details
The Royal Society elects around 50 new scientists each year from around the world, similar to becoming a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the USA. These scientists are leaders in their respective fields, but many (both female and male) do not have wikipedia pages at the time of their election - despite their notability.
This presentation / lightning talk will use the Fellows of the Royal Society to illustrate some issues with improving the scientific content of wikipedia by starting with biographies of living and notable scientists.
We will describe some success stories in using the wikipedian in residence scheme to facilitate uploading of data and describe what future barriers remain to improving scientific content of wikipedia via notable scientists biographies.