# Wikimedia as a platform for scientific information

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Computing Seminar
- Speaker: Daniel Mietchen
- Year: 2012
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3000651)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

During this presentation the topics that will touched upon include various ways in which wikis are being used in scientific research and publishing, currently, as well as some that are more speculative. Many of the examples are drawn from the biological sciences, and the talk is intended to stimulate debate as to how the physics community - and CERN in particular - can enhance its interaction with the Wikimedia community, or via Wikimedia with the public at large. For instance:

PLOS Computational Biology Topic Pages

Wodak SJ, Mietchen D, Collings AM, Russell RB, Bourne PE (2012) "Topic Pages: PLoS Computational Biology Meets Wikipedia". PLoS Comput Biol 8(3): e1002446

Open Access Media Importer

A proposed Wiki Journal, a peer-review journal to encourage academics to contribute Wikipedia articles

Encyclopedia of Original Research and JATS-to-MediaWiki

The Gene Wiki

Wikigenes

Wikis in Scholarly Publishing

The Journal of the Future

His talk is being drafted in public on Wikipedia, see here.

About the speaker

Daniel Mietchen is a freelancing scientist, trained in Biophysics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition to his conventional research, he works on the integration of research workflows with the World Wide Web, particularly by way of collaborative platforms like wikis. He is the Wikimedian in Residence for Open Science, hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Germany. .

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## Lectures

1. [Wikimedia as a platform for scientific information](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3000651/0273b6d69084), 1 h 35 min (CERN's player)