Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/The state of science and Wikimedia: Who is doing what, and who is funding it?
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Feedback from User:Elena_moz
[edit]I'm a member of the board of Wikimedia Italia and a contributor in Wikidata.
I think the project is very useful for giving visibility and legitimacy to Wikimedia projects in the scholarly field, and therefore for promoting the openness of data and contents in new disciplinary areas and research groups. I find Scholia to be a very effective communication tool.
Wikimedia Italia is supporting the conference Wikidata and reasearch and I think that this project could go in the same direction of reinforcing collaboration with universities and researchers. Elena moz (talk) 16:32, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Feedback from User:Anthere
[edit]I'm the co-director of Wiki in Africa, former founder of Wikimedia France and former Chair of Wikimedia Foundation. I have been a wikipedian for 23 years.
I think this project would be very useful first to give visibility and legitimacy to the Wikimedia effort in the scholarly field certainly, but also would be useful for the non-wikimedian public, in particular to journalists and those in charge of preparing heavily documented and reliable studies related to global governance for example.
I believe it would also be very useful for Wikimedians themselves, to help them search in a rather vast corpus and identify information relevant to their specific projects (such as evaluating the gaps in gender representation in Wikipedia content). Understanding who funds wikimedia research on the matter and the actors involved in the research field). Some Wikipedians attempt to track such information, but with limited tools, the outcome is usually patchy and quickly outdated [1]. Gender gaps research is obviously not the only topics interesting wikimedians groups, other topics are also ranking fairly high (eg, climate change, geographical representation, bias, AI, health... )
A project aiming to put « order » in the research output, and facilitate findability would be welcome.