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

Quick polls

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

Overview of the Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap

Zooming in on the Wikimedia part

Wikimedia logo family complete-2022

An ecosystem of about 1000 wikis

An Open Ecosystem

Cooperating with the Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap means using open licenses

The edit button

Give it a try

On desktop

On mobile

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