Grants:IdeaLab/drive contributions from the academic world through better ORCID integration

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drive contributions from the academic world through better ORCID integration

Give academics and grad students direct credit via ORCID for their contributions.

idea creator• Stuartyeates

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created on20:18, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

What problem are you trying to solve by doing this project? This problem should be small enough that you expect it to be completely or mostly resolved by the end of this project. Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question.
For many subjects, the majority of the subject experts are in (or connected to) the academic world. Many of these people are time-poor and have no motivation to contribute to wikimedia efforts, so their expertise is lost to us.

What is your solution?

For the problem you identified in the previous section, briefly describe your how you would like to address this problem. We recognize that there are many ways to solve a problem. We’d like to understand why you chose this particular solution, and why you think it is worth pursuing. Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question.
ORCID is a consortia-based attribution framework for the academic world: individuals using connect their contributions across publishers, institutions and fields to present their research outputs as a whole. By (optionally) bi-directionally linking wikimedia accounts to ORCID identifiers, we would enable these people (primarily academics and grad students) to get professional credit for their work, while expanding the motivation for this pool of subject experts

Project goals

What are your goals for this project? Your goals should describe the top two or three benefits that will come out of your project. These should be benefits to the Wikimedia projects or Wikimedia communities. They should not be benefits to you individually. Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question.
More academic subject experts contributing to wikimedia projects Lower barriers to the use of wikimedia projects in academic teaching and learning

Who will you be doing outreach with?

http://orcid.org/

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About the idea creator

en.wiki editor of >1 years from an academic background.

Participants

ORCID Auth2 work probably needs to be done by wikimedia devs.

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