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Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

Alice Kibombo, Daniel Mietchen, Eric Luth, Melissa Hagemann & Stephen Wyber

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Overview of Session

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  • Welcome: Stephen Wyber
  • Synergies with Wikimedia: Daniel Mietchen
  • Intro to Open Access: Melissa Hagemann
  • Intro to Open Science: Daniel
  • Challenges: Alice Kibombo & Melissa
  • Collaborations: Eric Luth & Stephen

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What Success Looks

Like

  • You:
    • Refresh your knowledge about the Open Science movement and its goals
    • Reaffirm your understanding of why Open Science supports the goals of the Wiki movement
    • Have the desire to work with Open Science advocates and practical plans for
  • We:
    • Know how we can support stronger partnerships between the Wiki movement and Open Science advocates around the world

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Who we are…

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Synergies with Wikimedia

(theory)

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  • Right to read (and mine)
    • For Wikimedia editors
      • and their tools
    • For Wikimedia readers
      • and their tools
  • Right to reuse
    • open licenses
      • incl. right to adapt
    • (fair use)
  • Right to participate
  • Papers, datasets, software …

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  • Right to read (and mine)
    • For Wikimedia editors ⇒ (Wikipedia Library)
      • and their tools ⇒ Open Access Media Importer
    • For Wikimedia readers ⇒ OA Signalling Project
      • and their tools ⇒ WikiCite
  • Right to reuse ⇒ OA Signalling Project / WikiCite
    • open licenses ⇒ OA Signalling Project / WikiCite
      • incl. right to adapt ⇒ OA Signalling Project / WikiCite
    • (fair use) ⇒ ?
  • Right to participate ⇒ WikiCite / WikiProjects (e.g. 🏜️)
  • Papers, datasets, software … ⇒ WikiCite / WikiProjects
  • Scholarly profiles ⇒ Scholia (based on WikiCite)

Synergies with Wikimedia (practice)

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  • Template: Citation

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  • Open Access Media Importer
  • 3 main steps
    • check article for license
    • check article for media
    • upload files to Commons
  • 36k file uploads to Wikimedia Commons between 2010 and 2018
  • 2k of these are used on 8k wiki pages
  • over 500 million page views

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  • WikiCite
  • Scholia

Katowice researchers using ImageJ

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Open Access

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By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.

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Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002

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Open Access

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To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies: �

  • Self-archiving/Repositories
  • Open Access Journals
    • Free to read & publish in (Diamond)
    • Article Processing Charge/Read & Publish Agreements�

Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002

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  • Almost 50% of research articles are OA
  • Open Access Journals: 20,700
  • Open Repositories: 5,600
  • University OA Policies: 890
  • Foundations, national governments
  • COVID-19: 79% of journal articles were OA

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20 years

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BOAI20

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“Open Access is not an end in itself, but a means to other ends, above all, to the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of research.”

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Open Science

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(meant to include all fields of research, just like Polish nauka does)

⇒ Open research

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“Open research is the concept of scientists sharing their research with the world as soon as they record it for themselves.”

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Open Science

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  • ethics first
    • who benefits / is harmed
    • if research is (not) done/ shared
  • sharing
    • whether to share
    • what (not) to share
    • why (not) share
    • when to share
    • how to share
  • open when possible
    • free to read/ mine/ reuse/ adapt/ participate
  • all around the research cycle
  • essentially a wiki way of doing and sharing research

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  • APC-based journals exclude authors for economic reasons and without regard to the quality and importance of their work.

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  • Read-and-publish agreements exacerbate existing inequalities in scholarly publishing.

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Challenges

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  • The research assessment process is broken; does not serve the scholarly community.

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  • OA research is at risk of enclosure when hosted on closed, proprietary or commercial infrastructure.

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Challenges

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  • Awareness raising

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  • Loss of sustainable publishing models.

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  • Barriers to publish in APC-based journals.

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  • Spread of Read-and-Publish agreements.

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Specific Challenges

in the Global South

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Poor law

  • Unwaivable remuneration rights
  • Leaving researchers with obligations, but no rights
  • Loopholes!
  • Lack of clarity around copyright ownership
  • Restrictions on data access and sharing

Collaborations against challenges

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Collaborations against challenges

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Underlying challenges

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  • Open science crucial for successful research�
  • Who’s talking on behalf of researchers?�
  • All parts of university and research sectors needed for advocacy

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Collaborations

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  • Cross pollination of the two communities

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  • OA Signalling Project

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  • WikiJournals

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  • Policy

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  • Equitable development of Open Access

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What are the priority areas for further collaborations?

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How can we make these happen?

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Let’s collaborate!

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Stephen Wyber

Stephen.Wyber@ifla.org

knowledgerights21.org

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Melissa Hagemann

mh@budapestopenaccessinitiative.org

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Daniel Mietchen

daniel.mietchen@wikipedia.de

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Eric Luth

eric.luth@wikimedia.se

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Alice Kibombo

akibombo-ctr@wikimedia.org

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