Wikipedia:Meetup/CitSciHelvetia Solothurn 2023/Impact-oriented Citizen Science: The role of Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap

Impact-oriented Citizen Science: The role of Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap is a workshop organised within the conference CitSciHelvetia by Iolanda Pensa (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland; SUPSI) in collaboration with Daniel Mietchen (Ronin Institute) and Diego Haettenschwiler (Wikipedian).

Short link: https://w.wiki/6SWS, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7791417

Summary

 * Title: Impact-oriented Citizen Science: The role of Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
 * Location: III, Salle de workshop 1, auberge de jeunesse, Landhaus, Solothurn.
 * Date and time: Wednesday 29 March 2023, h 14h00–15h30 CET.
 * Duration: 1 hour and a half.
 * Organizers: Iolanda Pensa, Daniel Mietchen and Diego Haettenschwiler.

What this workshop is about
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. They 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; 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.

Programme

 * 14.00-14.10 Welcome and presentations
 * 14.10-14.20 Introduction to Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap ($$ W_m O$$)
 * 14.20-14.25 How a wikipedian realized that he is a citizens scientist
 * 14.25-14.50 Strategies to rely on $$ W_m O$$ to trigger impact-oriented Citizen Science
 * 14.50-15.20 Testing $$ W_m O$$ and some specific tools
 * 15.20-15.30 Feedback about how to use $$ W_m O$$ for citizen science activities

How many people are we in the room?
28

How many have ever used Wikipedia?
28

How many have ever edited Wikipedia?
14

How about Wikidata?
4

And OpenStreetMap?
8

Zooming in on the Wikimedia part
An ecosystem of about 1000 wikis

Wikimedia experience of a citizen scientist
This will be a live performance.

Collaborating with Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap for Citizen Science
Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap are:
 * existing platforms with active communities
 * open. They have clear licenses, open for reuse, also for commercial purposes. They are a model of open access, open data, open infrastructure and software, open science and they respect personal data of users
 * sustainable. The last beyond specific financed citizen science projects and they provide content for reuse to anyone.
 * tools already used by researchers

Listen to recent changes
Listen to Wikipedia

A visualization of images of Italian cultural heritage by municipality: what has been done and what is missing
https://data.wikilovesmonuments.it/

WMCH Map Service
Explore locations, check article coverage and contribute with encyclopaedic content (in the image: Swiss archives)

Paintings
Paintings depicting frogs

Scholarly profiles
Scholia: research topics co-occurring with citizen science

Linguistic profiles of words and phrases
Ordia: compound and derivation graph for rød

Fix typos
https://typos.toolforge.org

Record the pronunciation of words and phrases in your language(s)
Lingua Libre

Describe words and phrases in your language(s)
Lexeme Party

Annotate images
https://isa.toolforge.org/

Enrich OpenStreetMap


StreetComplete

Give wiki-based presentations
Wiki2Reveal

About this page
This page can alternatively be presented via this link. To get back to the wiki page, use https://w.wiki/6SWS.

Further resources

 * List of tools on the page dedicated to Citizen science on Wikimedia meta
 * List of activities involving Wikidata

Related projects

 * WikiProject Open
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Citizen Science
 * Try the edit button (Prova il tasto modifica)
 * uMap - create custom maps on top of OpenStreetMap