User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Beijing Genomics Institute/Wikimedia and you

Some food for thought

 * Coursework with wiki component (see also School and university projects)


 * Review of genomics-related articles and materials by BGI scientists
 * Routine upload of non-publishable items of encyclopedic value to Wikimedia Commons
 * Provide data (and images/ videos) on villages around field sites, so that the wiki entries related to them can include that information
 * Provide photos and short biographies of genome researchers
 * Publish in reusably licensed journals
 * If that is not possible, upload at least some of the non-published items (example)


 * Wiki workshops
 * Edit-a-thons
 * Hackdays
 * Backstage pass
 * Release in-house publications, info brochures or press materials under an open license
 * Open Access Week
 * QRpedia codes in public places
 * Wikimedian in Residence program
 * Wikimedia day, or recognition of Wikimedia work on zoology-related information as adequate use of zoology staff time
 * Library training (e.g. work with sources)

Research questions

 * What is the value that Wikipedia and its sister projects - or open projects more generally - bring to zoological research?


 * What would be the costs and benefits of zoological research switching to an open mode?


 * What is it that incites millions of people to donate in Wikimedia funding drives? How can that be leveraged to fund zoology-related research?


 * What is it that incites thousands of people to donate their free labour to Wikimedia projects, or volunteer work more generally? How can that be leveraged to fund zoology-related research?


 * Are there any categoric objections to publicly funded research projects doing their accounting in public?