Wikiscience
| Wikiscience | |
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| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | closed |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | Wikiscience may eventually become a new, free, and community-based project within the Wikimedia movement. It is currently in its early stages of development and is intended to provide a central space for science and research in the future. The goal of the project will be to make scientific research freely accessible, transparent, and verifiable for everyone. The project will be aimed at all people with an interest in science. Wikiscience will allow all users – both registered and unregistered – to actively participate in the creation, publication, and discussion of scientific content, as well as to conduct research across all scientific disciplines (Citizen science). |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | German and English would be sufficient. |
| Proposed tagline | Science, research and teaching – free and open education for all people |
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| Technical requirements | |
| New features to require | The project will not require more technical extensions than those already available, for example, in Wikipedia. However, it is not yet possible to determine whether the project will need a few additional extensions later on. |
| Development wiki | No, but it was suggested. |
| Interested participants | |
| Andreas A. F. W. H. Ulrich sen. (Wulfrich) | |
Wikiscience may eventually become a new, free, and community-based project within the Wikimedia movement. It is currently in its early stages of development and is intended to provide a central space for science and research in the future. The goal of the project will be to make scientific research freely accessible, transparent, and verifiable for everyone. The project will be aimed at all people with an interest in science. Wikiscience will allow all users – both registered and unregistered – to actively participate in the creation, publication, and discussion of scientific content, as well as to conduct research across all scientific disciplines (Citizen science). The project will follow the core principles of the Wikimedia Foundation: openness, neutrality, transparency, and the free reuse of knowledge. Every participant will be able to create their own thematic areas within Wikiscience, provided these are based on recognized scientific disciplines. Within these areas, researchers and interested individuals will be able to write articles, provide data, verify results, and collaboratively work on scientific projects through open discussions.
The project will pursue several objectives: it will facilitate free access to scientific knowledge, promote collaborative research, strengthen the exchange between different disciplines, make scientific content understandable, and ensure the transparency and verifiability of research results. Wikiscience will serve as a platform where original research can be conducted and published – something that is not allowed in other Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. Participation will be possible in various ways: users will be able to publish their own scientific papers, review the work of others, take part in discussions, or initiate new research projects. In addition, interfaces with other Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons will be created to interlink content across the Wikimedia ecosystem.
To ensure quality, Wikiscience will rely on an open and transparent peer-review system, in which all submitted works can be reviewed, commented on, and evaluated by other users. At the same time, contributors will be required to provide verifiable sources, and all content must comply with established scientific standards of methodology, objectivity, and citation. All contributions will be released under free licenses, preferably Creative Commons, ensuring open access, reuse, and further development of the content. Wikiscience will differ from existing Wikimedia projects by offering a platform for original research, scientific publication, and open collaboration – whereas Wikipedia is limited to encyclopedic articles, Wikiversity focuses on educational materials, Wikidata collects structured data, and Wikisource provides historical source texts. The technical infrastructure will be based on MediaWiki, possibly with additional scientific extensions, supporting DOI assignment for citable works, providing a research data repository, offering interfaces to Wikidata and Commons, and including functions for version control, discussion pages, and peer review. In the long term, Wikiscience aims to become a central component of the global open-science movement, promoting free, transparent, and collaborative research.
Proposed by
[edit]- Andreas A. F. W. H. Ulrich sen. (Wulfrich)
- Brett Buttliere
- Matthew Vetter
- Iolanda Pensa
- Daniel Mietchen
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Alternative names
[edit]- Currently, there are no considerations for an alternative name. Wikiscience is the optimal name.
Related projects/proposals
[edit]- The concept of Wikiscience emerged from Wikiversity (de), as there is currently no real research community in the German-language version. The focus there is primarily on the creation of teaching materials, which deviates significantly from the original idea of Wikiscience. In the German-language Wikipedia, it has increasingly been observed that authors have proposed their own research approaches and supported them with sources, but these approaches were rejected – understandably, given the fundamental principles of Wikipedia. Against this background, it appears necessary to create a space where people can actively work on their research questions. This is exactly where Wikiscience comes in.
Similar examples
[edit]Domain names
[edit]- wikiscience.org (Domain registered but not used.)
- science.wikimedia.org
- meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiscience
Mailing list links
[edit]- Not known so far.
Demo
[edit]* The user subpage Wikiscience (Main Page) is already available for this purpose. The project is now part of the German-language Wikiversity, since research naturally belongs in Wikiversity.
People interested
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Discussion
[edit]- Please use the discussion page.
Annotation
[edit]* The project is now part of the German-language Wikiversity, since research naturally belongs in Wikiversity. A reopening of the proposal will still be decided by me. —Wulfrich Talk 18:59, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
- The Wikiscience project was outsourced by me because, unfortunately, it would not have had any chance within the German-language Wikiversity. I chose a new name but kept parts of the old logo. Depending on how the project develops, I may introduce it here again. Until then, it can be accessed at the following web address: https://scientia.wiki. Regards! —Andreas A. F. W. H. Ulrich sen. (Wulfrich) (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2025 (UTC)