Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science

This project ran from July 2011 till July 2013. Its activities are being continued under the umbrella of WikiProject Open Access.

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Open science - often used interchangeably with the more encompassing term open research - is concerned with making scientific research more transparent and more efficient. A central aspect to it is to provide open access to scientific information, especially to the research published in scholarly journals and to the underlying data, much of which traditional science tends to hide away. Other aspects are more open forms of collaboration and engagement with a wider audience, including citizen scientists and the public at large.

An overview of the Wikimedian in Residence scheme.

About

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Following in the footsteps of several Wikipedians in Residence working in GLAM-Wiki frameworks, this project run by Daniel Mietchen and hosted by the German chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation has two main goals, shared with the newly established WikiProject Open Access:

improving the coverage of topics related to Open science (and Open Access in particular) on Wikimedia projects
facilitating the reuse of suitably licensed scholarly materials on Wikimedia projects - an ongoing media donation project

An additional goal - pursued together with the Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee (RCom) - is the development of policies regarding open access and open data pertaining to research about Wikimedia projects.

For an introductory overview, see Wikimedia blog, Signpost or OKFN blog.