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This week I had the great honor of providing the opening keynote to the conference "Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in science communication" hosted at @uniinnsbruck

The video recording of my talk and the slides are already online available, please check them out over at @osconjunction

https://osconjunction.net/2024/04/11/opening-keynote-on-science-communication-and-wikipedia-potentials-and-pitfalls/

Opening Keynote on ‘Science (Communication) and Wikipedia: Potentials and Pitfalls’

Recently I had the honor of providing the opening keynote to the conference “Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in scie…

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Leonhard Dobusch Apr 11, 2024

I seized the opportunity to reflect on the following questions:

- How 'scientific' is Wikipedia?
- How important is science for Wikipedia?
- How important is Wikipedia for science?
- How important is Wikipedia for our common knowledge?
- What are potentials when science communication meets Wikipedia?
- What are the pitfalls?
- Is it worth it?

Of course, the slide deck features the nowadays obligatory AI slide and an Elon Musk joke.

https://chaos.social/@osconjunction.ne[email protected]/112251386471922963

Opening Keynote on ‘Science (Communication) and Wikipedia: Potentials and Pitfalls’

Recently I had the honor of providing the opening keynote to the conference “Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in scie…

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Leonhard Dobusch Apr 11, 2024

PS: in line with the topic, the video recording of my talk is now also available on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_(Communication)_and_Wikipedia._Potentials_and_Pitfalls.webm

File:Science (Communication) and Wikipedia. Potentials and Pitfalls.webm - Wikimedia Commons

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Hugo Apr 11, 2024

@leonido Thank you ! this is too rare. I may use this material in a class. 👍

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Leonhard Dobusch Apr 11, 2024

@Hugo Great to hear, please do!

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Christian Erlinger Apr 11, 2024

@leonido + #Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125427760 🙂

Science (Communication) and Wikipedia: Potentials and Pitfalls

keynote lecture by Leonhard Dobusch at the EUPRIO workshop "Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia" at University of Innsbruck, 9 April 2024

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Achim Zeileis Apr 11, 2024

@leonido @uniinnsbruck @osconjunction Great opening lecture, I very much enjoyed it!

Regarding YouTube & video licenses & reuse in Wikipedia: Is it good enough to flag your YouTube videos as CC-BY on YouTube (instead of the default YouTube license)?

That's what I do with my own YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/@azeileis) but I wondered whether I should do something else instead of or in addition to that?

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Leonhard Dobusch Apr 11, 2024

@zeileis

yes in principle, but usually such content won't end up in Wikipedia:
- YouTube does not allow downloads (yes, there are workarounds...)
- the video has to be converted into an open file standard (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Converting_video)
- Wikipedian's usually don't search YouTube for content to download and convert

>> if you really want your videos to have chance of being used in Wikipedia, you probably would have to convert and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.
@uniinnsbruck

Help:Converting video - Wikimedia Commons

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Achim Zeileis Apr 11, 2024

@leonido @uniinnsbruck OK, I wasn't aware of the first two issues, but that clearly makes sense.

Currently I don't have content geared towards a Wikipedia audience but I'll keep it in mind for when I want to try this out.

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Universität Innsbruck Apr 11, 2024

@leonido @zeileis already happened: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_(Communication)_and_Wikipedia._Potentials_and_Pitfalls.webm