User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/CoSci12/Abstract

Abstract


Wikis like Wikipedia and its sister projects interact with scholarly resources in multiple ways - they may simply link to, cite or quote them, or suitably licensed scholarly materials may experience a second life when being reused in a new context as part of a Wikimedia project, e.g. on a Wikipedia page or in a Wiktionary entry.

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.