Less known is reuse in the other direction: scholarly materials ever more frequently link to, cite or quote from Wikipedia and its sister projects, and in some cases, use content from Wikimedia sources in new contexts.
In this contribution, a number of reuse scenarios in both directions shall be outlined. In line with this theme, both the presentation and the paper are being drafted via the WP:COSCI12 page on the English Wikipedia: wiki pages take on the role of slides that serve as an illustrated guide to the reuse of freely licensed materials in scholarly contexts, and the article will then be written up on that basis, incorporating feedback from the discussions at the conference.
Science is already a wiki if you look at it a certain way. It’s just a highly inefficient one — the incremental edits are made in papers instead of wikispace, and significant effort is expended to recapitulate existing knowledge in a paper in order to support the one to three new assertions made in any one paper.
Logo of the Wikidata project, a collaboratively editable database from where information can be pulled into infoboxes and other data elements in Wikimedia projects, regardless of language.
Overview of Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Foundation's mission: "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally"
A whole set of collaborative platforms that channel and structure information in different ways.
Open licenses are key to allow interaction between Open Access, Open Science and Open Educational Resources.
Here, Open signifies that reuse is allowed beyond mere access.
Many researchers, editors, educators and institutions struggle with the choice of the proper license, especially with respect to the non-commercial condition
The kind of open-access materials most widely used on Wikimedia projects is figures from scholarly articles. This extends to historic publications, e.g. the benzeneformulae from Kekulé's original article that depict the molecule's two resonance structures.[4] However, chemical formulae are nowadays preferentially rendered in editable vector graphics formats like SVG.
A page from the lab notebook underlying the experiments described in Lang & Botstein (2011).[5]
Different kinds of media are being posted within articles or their supplements.
Butler, D. (2008). "Publish in Wikipedia or perish: Journal to require authors to post in the free online encyclopaedia". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2008.1312.
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^Alan Turner & Mauricio Anton: Evolving Eden, An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna. Columbia University Press, New York 2004 ISBN 0-231-11944-5)
^Xie, L.; Weichel, B.; Ohm, J.; Zhang, K. (2011). "An integrative analysis of DNA methylation and RNA-Seq data for human heart, kidney and liver". BMC Systems Biology. 5: S4. doi:10.1186/1752-0509-5-S3-S4.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
^Pöschl, U. (2012). "Multi-Stage Open Peer Review: Scientific Evaluation Integrating the Strengths of Traditional Peer Review with the Virtues of Transparency and Self-Regulation". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 6. doi:10.3389/fncom.2012.00033.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
^Kekulé, A. (1872). "Ueber einige Condensationsproducte des Aldehyds". Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 162: 77–12. doi:10.1002/jlac.18721620110.
^Leewenhoecks, M. (1677). "Mr. Leewenhoecks Letter Written to the Publisher from Delff the 14th of May 1677, Concerning the Observations by him Made of the Carneous Fibres of a Muscle, and the Cortical and Medullar Part of the Brain; as Also of Moxa and Cotton". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 12 (133–142): 899–905. doi:10.1098/rstl.1677.0027.
^Mietchen D, Hagedorn G, Förstner KU, Kubke MF, Koltzenburg C, Hahnel M, Penev L (2011), "Wikis in scholarly publishing", Information Services and Use, 31 (1–2), IOS Press: 53–59, doi:10.3233/ISU-2011-0621, retrieved 2012-07-23{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Versioned wiki page: 2012-04-13, version 23217, http://species-id.net/w/index.php?title=Wikis_in_scholarly_publishing&oldid=23217 , contributors (alphabetical order): Konrad Foerstner, Gregor Hagedorn, Mark Hahnel, Claudia Koltzenburg, M Fabiana Kubke, Daniel Mietchen, Stephen Thorpe. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution License.