2025:Program/Open Science for Wikimedians: Lessons learned and potential steps ahead
Session title: Open Science for Wikimedians: Lessons learned and potential steps ahead
- Session type: Panel
- Track: Legal & Advocacy
- Language: en
🎥 Session Recording: https://w.wiki/FCaB 🎥
The Open Science and Wikimedia communities share the common goal of developing high quality openly available content, yet collaborations between the movements have been limited. Following discussions at last year’s Wikimania, the speakers conducted a survey of Wikimedia affiliates to gauge their knowledge of, interest in, and activities surrounding Open Science. The results of the survey will be shared and will form the basis for discussions around coordinating and strengthening activities between the two communities.
Description
The session will start with a brief presentation about insights gathered in a Wikimedia-wide survey to capture activities, interests and knowledge about open science among Wikimedia affiliates. All affiliates will have been invited to sharetheir work relating to Open Science, and the results of this survey will contribute to a mapping of Open Science activities within the movement. Such a mapping has been lacking, which has made it harder to find opportunities for collaboration between affiliates, and between volunteers. The hope is that this mapping will make it easier to identify common opportunities, existing challenges and gaps and how to build better capacity and know-how in how to engage with open science stakeholders.
After the presentation of the insights, the audience will be invited to discuss how to build on these insights and what next steps the newly formed network on Open Science should take. The aim is thus to pave the way ahead for a stronger international collaboration within the Wikimedia movement and with external stakeholders around Open Science.
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 – Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
Open Science aims to make scientific research, data, code, and publications freely accessible to everyone, promoting transparency, collaboration, and reproducibility to increase the accessibility and impact of scientific knowledge. This session will present results of a mapping exercise of Open Science activities within the Wikimedia community and thereby help to strengthen the impact of such activities within the Wikimedia community by coordinating and mutually supporting our work.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Some experience will be needed
Resources
Speakers
- Melissa Hagemann
- Melissa Hagemann is the Director of the BOAI Org and has been at the forefront of the Access to Knowledge movement for over twenty years. She managed the Open Society Institute’s (now Open Society Foundations) work to define Open Access through the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and went on to support the development of the global Open Access movement. To mark the 20th anniversary of the BOAI, she spearheaded the development of new recommendations which emphasize that Open Access is not an end in itself, but a means to further ends, above all, to the equity, quality, sustainability, and usability of research.
- She is a member of the Board of Creative Commons and has served on numerous boards, including the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the Steering Committee of the Open Climate Campaign.
- eric luth
- I am Project Manager for Involvement and Advocacy at Wikimedia Sverige. In that capacity, I have recently worked primarily with international partnerships, such as with the UN agencies, and advocacy for the open movement at the national, European and international level. I have an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and live in Stockholm.
- Julian Cueto
- .I’m an anthropologist, teacher, and WIR at the National University of La Plata, and a member of the Wikimedians of the UNLP. I organize and support collaborative activities and projects with GLAM institutions, research teams, and university professors.
- Fernando Archuby
- Argentine scientist and University Professor, specialized in fossil and current marine biodiversity. Wikimedist since 2015, I devote my volunteer effort to improve Wikimedia Projects from a global south and gender sensitive perspective.
- I belong to the Equipo de Wikimedistas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata and lead the initiative Wikimedistas en Ciencia Abierta (Wikimedists in Open Science). Our goals are involving Wikimedia Projects in Universities and Scientific institutions. We try to recruit scientists and teachers.
- Some more information:
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedistas_de_la_Universidad_Nacional_de_La_Plata
- Alice Kibombo
- She is a librarian and a former WiR with AfLIA