Wikipedia:Meetup/CitSciHelvetia Solothurn 2023

From March 29-30, the citizen science conference CitSciHelvetia 2023 will take place in Solothurn, which will feature two sessions on Citizen Science in the context of Wikimedia projects. Besides these conference sessions, a meetup in Solothurn outside the conference is being planned.

This page and its subpages are to facilitate the participation to all events and to make available their documentation.


 * Title: CitSciHelvetia 2023. The second Swiss conference about Citizen Science "Citizen Science - The impact of participation!"
 * Dates: 29 and 30 March 2023
 * Location: Landhaus, Solothurn

Events related to the Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects at CitSciHelvetia

 * Impact-oriented Citizen Science: The role of Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, Iolanda Pensa (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Haute école spécialisée de la Suisse italienneWorkshop), Daniel Mietchen (Ronin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, United States) and Diego Haettenschwiler (Wikipedian), III, Salle de workshop 1, auberge de jeunesse, Wednesday 29 March 2023, h 14h00–15h30.
 * Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap are existing Citizen Science tools, structured to allow measuring, evaluating, planning and communicating the impact of citizens’ contribution and the effects of open research. Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap are the largest participatory open and multilingual projects ever created. They activate communities, they use Open Science, they produce content, data and infrastructures, which are available to anyone (20 billion views per month and reused for services and products); furthermore they are huge repositories that document edits, references, uploads and participatory dynamics. This workshop presents and discusses strategies to rely on Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap to trigger impact-oriented Citizen Science and to assess it through information design.


 * Citizien Scientists – Wiki Scientist. Christian Erlinger (Bibliothèque centrale et universitaire de Lucerne), Dialogue Session Säulenhalle, 30 March 2023, h 12h15–13h45.
 * The Wiki*Versum - as a sum of all wiki projects under the patronage of the Wikimedia Foundation like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikisource and similar - is one of the most successful example of common scientific and open civic engagement of the last 20 years. Nevertheless, for many Citizen Scientists in terms of their own research work is not clear how these wikis can be used for one's own work. The traceability and measurability of the contributions when participating in these formats allow the effectiveness and the recognizability of the commitments. Let's discuss together experiences related to Wikis in and for Citizen Science. Good examples, suggestions, tips or simply new questions.


 * Meetup in Solothurn.

Collaboration between "Science et Cité" and the Wikimedia projects
"Science et Cité" - promoter of the conference CitSciHelvetia - has been collaborating with Wikimedia CH since 2019 by promoting workshops and trainings, edit-a-thon and events, with the active involvement of Flurin Beuggert (promoter of the initiative), Philipp Burkard (director of Science et Cité, Amandine Cabrio (wikipedian and University of Neuchâtel, Marcel Falk (Communication SCNAT), Diego Hättenschwiler (Wikipedian) and Jun Sarbach (media relation of FNS).

Participants at CitSciHelvetia
Please indicate whether you are planning to attend the conference or the local meetup or both and optionally what topics you would like to discuss at the meetup.


 * Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:02, 8 March 2023 (UTC) - I plan to attend both and am interested in discussing how citizen science activities on Wikimedia projects could interact more systematically both amongst themselves (e.g. via initiatives like WikiProject Citizen Science) and with the wider citizen science/ community science/ participatory research ecosystem
 * Iopensa (talk) 06:31, 8 March 2023 (UTC) - I'll be at the conference only on March 29th, 2023.
 * Christian Erlinger (User:Mfchris84) (talk) 21:17, 9 March 2023 (UTC) - i'll be there on both days and i am very excited to have some exchange on Wiki*everything during the conference.
 * Diego Hättenschwiler aka --Hadi (talk) 16:40, 15 March 2023 (UTC) After talking to Christian, I suggest the meetup after the workshop on the 29th of March.