User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2012/Original research at Wikimedia

Open Access

 * Overview
 * Open Access is just the first step towards Open Science, which opens up the process
 * As of now, Open access exists in not a single Turkic language

Policies on Open Research

 * Wikipedia, Wikispecies: No
 * Wikisource, Wikiversity: Yes



Problems

 * Without access to data, facts may sometimes be hard to tell apart from urban legends
 * Example: Batyr
 * My research notes on Kosik

Possible solution

 * Publish in journal first (i.e. with scholarly review), then post to Wikipedia


 * Doesn't solve the language issue: original research is published just once (i.e. in one language); no systematic transfer into other languages
 * Frog example