Citizen science

Citizen science – or community science – is a relevant topic connected to the Wikimedia projects.

The Wikimedia projects can be considered citizen science or community science and they contribute to reinforce citizens' participation and the capacity of research to benefit from the contribution of citizens.

Tools to facilitate and support participation

Wikipedia

• File:Try the edit button
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  abc tool to correct a typo in one click (d:Q64847146)
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  Wiki2Reveal to create a presentation from Wikiversity, Wikipedia, WikiBook, Wikionary, WikiQuote, WikiSource (d:Q104675261)

Wikidata

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  Query data on Wikidata and Examples of queries. A possible query "paintings depicting frogs".
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  Scholia Wikidata service generating scholarly profiles, e.g. for authors, journals, topics, and organizations (d:Q45340488)
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  Lexemes Party
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  Lexemes Challenge (d:Q109617338)

• Educational activities on Wikidata
• Zephyr, Into the Rabbit Hole: A Game of Data, 01/02/2023, CC By-NC 4.0, https://whistlingzephyr.github.io/posts/a-game-of-data/

Wikimedia Commons

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  Lingua Libre aims at building a collaborative, multilingual, audiovisual corpus under free licence (d:Q60024037)
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  ISA Tool to easily add information about images on Wikimedia Commons (d:Q72678452)

OpenStreetMap

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  StreetComplete app to collect data for OpenSteetMap (d:Q56221667)
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  A map to support accessibility wheelmap (d:Q2566666)
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  HOT Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (d:Q27237385)
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  Kibera (d:Q117319701)

Visualizing participation and impact

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  [Wikipedia e la scuola italiana], a visualization about Wikipedia articles related to topics taught in Italian schools: how they can be improved and how they changed (d:Q117279813)
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  A visualization of images of Italian cultural heritage organised by municipality: what has been done and what is missing (d:Q117287812)
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  WMCH Map Service, a tool to explore locations, check article coverage and contribute with encyclopaedic content (in the image Swiss archives) (d:Q117210027)
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  GLAM stat tool Cassandra, statistics for Galleries, Libraries Archives & Museums (d:Q106904684)

Initiatives

• d:Wikidata:WikiProject Citizen Science
• Try the edit button (Prova il tasto modifica) https://eu-citizen.science/project/142
• w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Open

References

Citizen science and the Wikimedia projects

• Daniel Mietchen, Citizen Science and Open Science would benefit from closer interaction (ECSA 2018) https://w.wiki/5nDF
• Wikimedia projects and citizen science (2018) https://w.wiki/5nDE
• A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data (2018) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2560019
• Wikimedia Projects and Citizen Science (2019) https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.34722
• The Wikimedia ecosystem as a key component of an open science landscape (2020) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4321982
• Mietchen, Daniel, & Hussain, Netha. (2021, August 14). An overview of the COVID-19 related content of Wikimedia projects. Wikimania 2021. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5201623
• Science GLAM and Open Science (2021) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5535597
• Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem (2022) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7109345
• Daniel Mietchen, Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia, ECSA 2022 - 7 October 2022 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7134994
• Daniel Mietchen, Wikimedia projects and citizen science

Citizen science and OpenStreetMap

• A. Sarretta, M. Minghini, M. Napolitano, A. Kotsev and P. Mooney, OpenStreetMap: an opportunity for Citizen Science, Collection of open conferences in research transport (2020). Vol. 2020, 85 URL https://www.scipedia.com/public/Sarretta_et_al_2020a

Networks

• ECSA European Citizen Science Association https://www.ecsa.ngo/ License CC BY-ND!)
• eu-citizen.science https://eu-citizen.science/