User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Wikimania 2012/FESIN North American Mycoflora Workshop/Notes

Structure of the talk
Times not meant to be precise.


 * 5 min introduction: what is a wiki or Wiki(m/p)edia and how does this work?
 * 5 min on coverage of taxonomy in general and North American mycoflora in particular, focus on English but show other languages too; include some GLAM stats
 * 5 min on quality control
 * 5 min on dispute resolution
 * 5 min buffer
 * 5 min discussion
 * discussion is encouraged throughout the talk

intro: Internet: link computers Web: link documents Wiki: make documents collaboratively editable

http://www.wikimedia.org

Wikipedia - the encyclopedia that anyone can edit Go to Main Page

Key issues for the Flora:
 * How to ensure that claims in articles are based on the most appropriate (reliability, topicality) sources?
 * "the most important references in terms of date, content, method, etc. get only as many references as do less important to unimportant and, even, forgetable secondary or tertiary sources."
 * Doing this right requires access to sources and an understanding of recent developments in the field.
 * Preference for secondary sources due to WP:NPOV


 * Should macro- and micromorphology and phylogeny and keys all be included?
 * Neither Wikipedia nor Wikispecies allow keys (considered Original research), Wikisource and Species ID do allow them. Scholarpedia does not yet have mycological articles, Citizendium very few.
 * Phylogeny is often being revised these days, so may not be suitable for systematic inclusion across taxa.
 * Micromorphology currently sparsely covered
 * Macromorphology covered best, but extent biased by pop culture.


 * Are there databases that could be queried systematically to provide authoritative data on things like spore size?
 * Example at http://www.amanitaceae.org?Amanita+magniradix.
 * This could be automated and integrated with Wikidata (if community wants it).


 * How to handle non-scientific aspects of articles on mycological topics (e.g. role of fungi in murders of emperors; use of entheogens/hallucinogens)?
 * Dedicated sections or sub articles, possibly mentioned in lead

Quality control: Go to assessment matrix in WP:FUNGI

Conflict resolution: WP:ARBCOM

Topics

 * Various WP policies and activities that en- or discourage constructive collaboration


 * Fungus of the day?


 * Database reports


 * Recent research


 * Mako's keynote
 * Learn from failures
 * median number of contributors to open projects
 * role of feedback and leadership
 * Contribution = interest + barnstars + Jimbo (23:39)
 * identification key papers: editorial, example


 * Collaborative authoring


 * NMRWiki,


 * Wikispecies, Species-ID & MycoKeys


 * Wikia


 * Scholarpedia


 * WP:NOR does not apply the same way to Wikiversity, Wikispecies and Wikisource


 * Problem: taxonomy inconsistent between Wikipedia, Wikispecies and Wikimedia Commons

Quality control

 * Quality review

WikiProject Fungi

 * WP:FUNGI
 * Signpost notice


 * DYK

Sample article

 * Myriostoma
 * FA nom
 * Signpost coverage


 * Etherpad
 * incl. 38 Featured Articles in Category:Fungi of North America

Other articles

 * International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
 * Taxonomy
 * DNA barcoding

Dispute resolution

 * Submissions/Eternal December: How Awful Arguments are Killing the Wiki, and Why not to Make Them
 * WP:ARBCOM