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Science Hub
Wiki support for scientists and science for wiki
About
[edit]The Wikimedia Science Hub seeks to facilitate Wikimedia activities relating to scientific and other scholarly content from all disciplines of systematic inquiries. In terms of knowledge domains, this includes the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, mathematics, medicine and so on. On the wiki side, it includes all content, communities and infrastructure of Wikimedia wikis as well as supporting activities.
The Hub concept
[edit]Within the Wikimedia ecosystem, Hubs are intended to facilitate community interactions within a certain scope. The scope can be regional, thematic or linguistic, and the Science Hub is a thematic one.
The goal of the Science Hub is to serve as an administrative and grantmaking center for the scientific community of affiliates and user groups in the Wikimedia Ecosystem. Our goal is to develop networks in each of the Wikimedia Regions, especially to help community members find partners for projects and granting opportunities in general. The hub is especially set up to support community members in finding partners, finding grants, and administering grants. This assistance can be for instance to develop standard ways for Wikimedia affiliates to report their science based activity, developing regular reports of the scientific initiatives and efforts that Wikimedia is undertaking, providing example inter-university grant agreements, and even serving as a fiscal sponsor where it makes sense.
This project has been fostered as a part of Buttliere, Vetter, and Ross (2024), Wikimedia Research Grant: Developing Wikimedia Impact Metrics as a Sociotechnical Solution for Encouraging Funder/ Academic Engagement
Lines of activities
[edit]Wiki about scientific matters
[edit]This includes on-wiki content relating to any knowledge domain, on any Wikimedia wiki, in any language. It also includes supporting infrastructure and activities.
The ultimate goal is to make scientific knowledge public and available where people look for it. There are many Wikimedians that are professionals or academics of all sorts, but they sometimes struggle to get credit for their work. The hub is meant to be a place for academic and science oriented Wikimedians to find each other, partners for projects, projects to apply to, and to assist in the preparation and facilitation of grant proposals.
The Wiki Science Hub values the contributions of its scientific and academic partners and wants to help the community get grants and other sorts of professional credit for their activities on Wikimedia.
Scientific matters about wiki
[edit]This includes scientific research and knowledge — from any field of knowledge domain — about Wikimedia contents, workflows, infrastructure or communities regarding any Wikimedia wiki, in any language.
Tightly interwoven wiki and scientific matters
[edit]This is about activities, materials or processes in which the wiki aspects and the scientific aspects are closely intertwined, e.g. because the research is both based on and contributing to wiki matters.