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== Implementation plan ==

A minimal implementation of this might be: 

* port [[en:Template:Authority control]] to meta
* establish an OAuth2 relationship with ORCID
* a page of the toolserver with the following logic:
** Display some info and help text
** If the user is not logged into wikimedia account, invite them to
** If the user is not logged into ORCID account (OAuth2), invite them to
** If the user does not have a meta user page or the  meta user page does not have [[en:Template:Authority control]] with the orcid= parameter, invite them to create one. (Maybe using a template)
** Get global user stats (ideally reusing an existing tool such as https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/?user=Stuartyeates)
** Build a couple of widgets based on the user stats that the user might like to have on their ORCID profile 
*** "''User <user> has been a wikimedian for <y> years''"
*** "''User <user> has been a wikimedian for <y> years and contributed more than <e> edits with <x> projects in <l> languages''"
*** "''User <user> has been an editor of the <l> language wikipedia for <y> years''"
*** "''User <user> has been a contributor of the <l> language <project> for <y> years ''"
** Allow the user to select one of the widgets to push to their ORCID profile, replacing the current wikimedia one.
Obviously it could get quite elaborate if desired and need translation.

When looking at [[en:Template:Authority control]] be aware that it's one of the few templates which is used on both content and user pages. Adding it to a user page MUST be done by the user (see [[en:WP:OUTING]]). [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] ([[User talk:Stuartyeates|talk]]) 20:45, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

If you encourage people to add VIAF identifiers for themselves, we then have professionally-assigned age and gender info on these people too. This data is not perfect, however, as per http://opensourceexile.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/adrian-pohl-wrote-some-excellent.html [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] ([[User talk:Stuartyeates|talk]]) 08:27, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

== Prior art ==

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Please see [[ORCID]]. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 21:59, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

== Comments ==

Thanks for this idea {{u|Stuartyeates}}!  This is my first time hearing about ORCID, but a cursory review of the system tells me it would be pretty neat if there was a way to incorporate contributions to Wikimedia projects toward an ORCID account.  (Back when I was in grad school, there were definitely some articles [[User:I JethroBT|in my capacity as a volunteer]] I worked on that would have been useful to capture under this kind system.)  I did want to ask why Wikimedia Foundation staff would be needed to implement this idea.  My knowledge of what technical components volunteers can work on and what is restricted to staff is somewhat limited-- does it have something to do with the OAuth2 authorization?  Maybe there are some aspects of this that volunteers could develop?  It's possible that the WMF grant could fund this kind of work if it is appropriately planned out.  We have funded technical development work in the past.

Also pinging {{u|Astinson (WMF)}} (to comment on this proposal with respect to GLAM initiatives) and {{u|Halfak (WMF)}} (to comment on the viability of the WMF joining the ORCID consortia and who might be best suited to complete appropriate OAuth2 work. [[User:I JethroBT (WMF)|I JethroBT (WMF)]] ([[User talk:I JethroBT (WMF)|talk]]) 06:39, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
: Hey all.  I'm not quite sure I understand what would be involved in joining the ORCID consortia.  It seems like we'd need to work with ORCID to allow a researcher to associate their ORCID identifier with their Wikimedia central auth ID. Is that all that's proposed or have I missed something? --[[User:Halfak (WMF)|Halfak (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Halfak (WMF)|talk]]) 21:05, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
:: Yes, that's all that's proposed. [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] ([[User talk:Stuartyeates|talk]]) 09:32, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
:::That sounds like a really interesting idea! I know that {{ping|Pigsonthewing}} is interested in working more with ORCID ID, and might know more about the background on this work. [[User:Astinson (WMF)|Astinson (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Astinson (WMF)|talk]]) 17:12, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
::::Yes; I'm Wikimedian in Residence at ORCID. Please see [[ORCID]] for my thoughts. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:10, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
::::: For the record I should say that Andy is probably more qualified in pretty much every way to lead this work than I am. [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] ([[User talk:Stuartyeates|talk]]) 08:26, 28 February 2017 (UTC)