Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Improving the Enkore-WikiProject while aiming the Phasing Out of Projects on ResearchGate (ID: 22394915)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Fpa1981
- Organization
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- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Improving the Enkore-WikiProject while aiming the Phasing Out of Projects on ResearchGate
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-01-15 - 2024-05-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Australia
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Wikimedia Hackathon
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
We are helping researchers move their projects from ResearchGate to Wikimedia Foundation. We have clear guidelines with examples to make it easy.
In 2023, ResearchGate said they were retiring some projects. Even though they gave directions on how to move the projects, many still need a new home on the internet.
We want to encourage researchers to use different wiki-ecosystems like Wikidata, Wikicite, Scholia, and Toolforge. We are working on the "Invasive Species" wiki-project, which has added a lot of information to Wikidata.
You can find more information about our work here:
Invasive Species Wiki-Project: [1] Wikidata Invasive Biology Project: [2] Scholia Topic: Invasive Species: [3] Our main challenges are making wiki-projects appealing to the scientific community and creating a user-friendly system that brings scientists together to work with wikis.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
With the guidance of Fernando Andutta, we're working to make more than 7,000 Wikidata items better, especially in the area of scientific publications about invasive species. We're making sure all our improvements follow the rules of Wikimedia and use the right licenses. We want to keep Wikidata's database special and safe.
Lane Rasberry will show all the good things our project is achieving. Lane will explain how we are making Wikidata better with lots of details.
Daniel Mietchen is the expert at making new partnerships. He will try to bring in new projects to join our work and make it even better. We want to grow and work together to make our project even more amazing.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Daniel (User:Daniel_Mietchen; [4]) is responsible for 20% of the budget. He's good at making partnerships with other people in the Open Science community. He really believes in Open Science principles.
Lane (User:bluerasberry; [5]) also gets 20% of the budget. He's in charge of sharing the results of our project with others. Like Daniel, Lane is a strong supporter of Open Science.
Fernando (User:Fpa1981; [6]) is the one who planned this project and has 60% of the budget. He's in charge of making sure the computer code we use is top-notch and follows the right rules. His big goal is to create a bunch of computer functions that help us work with code. He also takes care of writing down what we do on GitHub-wiki. Fernando is good at working with other wiki-projects in Toolforge. He's new to the wiki-community, but he's very devoted to Open Science.
A very important rule we follow is that these three leaders won't get paid for editing Wikipedia projects. This helps make sure our work is independent and free from any conflicts of interest.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Our aim is to connect with knowledgeable researchers who want to share their valuable scientific knowledge on Wikidata. To engage with this group, our team members, Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry, don't just watch from the sidelines. They actively take part in wiki-conferences and open science events. At the same time, Fernando Andutta is working hard on the technical aspects of our project.
Daniel Mietchen is a well-known figure who specializes in building partnerships that lead to fruitful collaborations. Lane, who is great at getting attention in the media, focuses on sharing the results of our work.
To build strong relationships with new collaborators, we don't just offer a friendly gesture, but we invite them to bring their projects into Wikidata. This involves explaining how to integrate their work into Wikidata, setting the groundwork for a growing partnership.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
Our team, which includes Daniel, Lane, and myself, is actively working on various wiki-projects to help them grow. Here are some examples:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Invasion_biology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Open-source_hardware https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:CiTO We're also working with other Wikiprojects that have the potential to benefit the scientific community. Our progress is closely tied to our active involvement in community conferences and other events that promote open science. These efforts are significant steps in our journey.
Our project aligns well with key initiatives like Wikidata for integrating data, Wikicite for maintaining comprehensive bibliographies, and Scholia for presenting project details in a clear way. The ideas and code we're developing can be valuable for projects like Wikifunctions, which rely on open-source code, and Cito, which uses citation information from Wikidata.
We've had discussions and exchanged information with important Wikidata researchers like Denny Vrandečić and Lydia Pintscher through email. We've also had informal conversations on platforms like Telegram in groups like WikiCite. Our goal is to improve existing projects and make sure the information we create adds value across various initiatives, including Scholia and Enkore.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Climate Change and sustainability
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We're actively learning and adapting our ongoing and completed projects to make the most of existing data and code resources, inspired by Wikifunctions. One exciting concept we're going to explore is AcaWiki (https://acawiki.org/), which started in 2008 when Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools weren't as advanced as they are now. We're also interested in Wikicite (http://wikicite.org/), which aims to create a database of references based on Wikidata.
Because NLP tools have improved a lot, we can use them to make Wikidata items about scientific publications better. Our goal is to add detailed summaries to these items, which are currently missing. These summaries will not only make the information richer but also help people understand the content better.
What's really interesting is that we'll match these summaries with the abstracts of Open-Access publications. This matching can help create tools that find publications related to specific topics very accurately. This approach is promising because it combines the past with the latest technology to improve how we discover scientific publications.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 3 | Researchers advancing this project are: Daniel Mietchen, Lane Rasberry and Fernando Pinheiro Andutta |
| Number of editors | 2 | Editors advancing this project are: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry. |
| Number of organizers | 3 | Organizers advancing this project are: Daniel Mietchen, Lane Rasberry and Fernando Pinheiro Andutta |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 8000 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
We plan to make about 8000 improvements in Wikidata, but this number might go up because more items keep getting added to the platform.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Online report | We will maintain up-to-date metrics and statistics on the following link: https://enkore.toolforge.org/report.html | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
To check how much our project is improving, we're going to use some specific tools. One of these tools is called https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/sparql_rc.php. This tool helps us see how well we're adding new information through our sparql-query system. It lets us keep an eye on the new data we're adding.
We're also going to use the Wikidata API (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API) for a thorough evaluation. With this API, we can compare different versions of an item and find all the new information that has been added. This will help us look closely at the changes and better understand how our project is growing.
By using these tools, we'll be able to learn more about how our project is developing and how it's making a difference in the Wikidata community.
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
7695.65 AUD
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
5000 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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