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?

Academics, postgraduate students, independent researchers.

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About the idea creator

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

Participants

Becoming part of the ORCID consortia is probably something that would have to be done by a WMF staffer (with input from legal). ORCID Auth2 work probably needs to be done by WMF 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)
- What kind of thing are you thinking of, User:Pundit? Academics making many small edits to improve their perceived contributions? Stuartyeates (talk) 22:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
  - Yes, exactly - and also all kind of system games to pump one's stats up that we can't think of right now. Plus, bringing specifically ego-driven people to an encyclopedia may increase the amount of work needed to clean after. Still, I think the project has a positive net value. Pundit (talk) 22:40, 21 February 2017 (UTC)