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?

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?

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

• 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/

Get Involved

About the idea creator

en.wiki editor of >12 years from an academic background.

Participants

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

Endorsements

• I am cautious, as this idea could also have adverse effects, but all in all I think it can indeed bring more academics to WIkipedia. Pundit (talk) 22:07, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

See also

• ORCID (drafted May 2016)