User:Wolfgang8741

Intro
My name is Jonathan Brier. I have a B.S. in Media and Communication Technology from Michigan State University and a Masters of Science in Information specializing in social computing from the University of Michigan School of Information. I entered the Information Studies PhD program at the University of Maryland, College Park in the University of Maryland College of Information Studies researching citizen science in August 2015. My advisor was Andrea Wiggins, but now I am advised by Brian Butler and Susan Winter.

I edit Wikipedia mainly in computers, Internet, and technology related subjects. I am also interested in improving data completeness for data used in citizen science platforms and research. I'm focusing on Lakes at the moment. My contributions come in bursts when I have the time...like a WikiOgre and often organizing and tackling backlogs like a WikiGnome. Dual class all the way.

My other profiles on WikiData, WikiVoyage, Meta, Commons.

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My main pages of interest are

 * Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
 * GridRepublic
 * other related topics in citizen science and volunteer computing.

A few links to reach me: | wolfgang8741@mastodon.social, @wolfgang8741, or brierjon.com

Current Projects
TODO

USGS Import
If you're interested in Named US geographic features I'm currently importing GNIS info to WikiData. You can help with Mix'n'match Lakes and Mix'n'match Streams.

OSM Wikipedia Geo Linking
Linking and Mapping of Michigan lakes on OpenStreetMap for powering Wikipedia Maps. I've completed an import of named Lakes from GNIS to Wikidata for Michigan. Hotlinks: WikiProject Lakes and Wikidata WikiProject Lakes

Citizen Science
I'm working on a broader data foundation for Citizen Science on Wikidata for broader benefit of citizen science as open science and part of the Swedish research project ARCS, join in the conversation at WikiProject Citizen Science. At some point I'll will work on rekindling the Wikiproject Citizen Science for EN Wikipedia once the Wikidata foundation is moving.

WikiProject Lakes

 * WikiProject Lakes articles only with WikiProject Lakes template and no geographic WikiProject associated. PetScan Lakes with only WikiProejct Lakes
 * Articles in Lakes by country without WikiProject Lakes tag Lakes missing Lakes Project

WikiProject Rivers

 * WikiProject Rivers articles only with WikiProject Rivers and no geographic WikiProject associated. PetScan Rivers with only WikiProject Rivers
 * Articles in Rivers by country without WikiProject Rivers tag Rivers missing River Project - still needs to exclude certain irrelevant categories within this, seeing lots of cities listed and things along rivers in the recursion.

WikiProject Mountains

 * WikiProject Mountains articles only with WikiProject Mountains and no geographic WikiProject associated. PetScan Mountains with only WikiProject Mountains
 * Articles in Mountains by country without WikiProject Mountains tag Mountains missing Mountains Project - still needs to exclude certain irrelevant categories within this, seeing archaeological sites and other non mountain content listed in the recursion.

Proactive COI disclosures
In an effort of clear disclosure per DISCLOSE I created the following sections to identify my relationships under my own effort for clear objective editing.

Paid Editing
See:Template:Connected contributor (paid) No edits have been made for compensation.

I will edit at times now as part of my research for which I am compensated, but such activities fall withing the existing editing practices by any volunteers and are targeted to cleanup for consistency with the manual of style for processing of article content and ensuring correct links to WikiData. An example is adding infoboxes to Lakes which did not have an infobox and tagging articles with WikiProject Lakes.

Notes to Self

 * Format for Body of Water Infobox multiple other_name or native_name should use unbulleted list template like Lake Champlain
 * Creating shape maps from OpenStreetMap data

My focus is citizen science in Sweden - medborgarforskning