AcaWiki:Related people and groups

This is a place to mention related people and groups, and brainstorm about outreach activities.

Community managers

For ideas on building community

• @darraghdoyle - Boards.ie
• @thekulway - Wikipedia
• Randy Fisher/@wikirandy (via Nadeem Shabir/#opened09)

Community groups and movements

• freeculture.org
• opened
• opened resources (subgroup)
• wiki educators

Related projects and possible collaborators

• See http://mathoverflow.net/questions/13619/ (particularly Anton Petrunin)
  • r-forum (proposed project description
  • [Ncat] - a math wiki for notes, may have some summaries, e.g. http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Categories+and+Sheaves and http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Topological+Quantum+Field+Theories+from+Compact+Lie+Groups
  • Wikademic (some past discussion with Yossi Farjoun)
  • [1] -- comments on math arXiv posts
• Research Blogging is distributed and more opinionated, focusing on blog posts
• bibdex Allows private groups (Sunir Shah)

Outreach ideas

• pick any issue of any OA journal, and write to the authors of the articles and invite them to write summaries for AcuWiki. (There are 4,000+ peer-reviewed OA journals in all fields and all languages listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.) If someone did this for a semi-random assortment of journals in the major fields, the idea could start to spread. Students who didn't write AcuWiki summaries might be willing to write messages to article authors to get this ball rolling. Similarly, if you could identify the major discussion lists for the major fields, you could post messages to each suggesting that members write AcuWiki summaries of the new articles they're reading, or assign their students to do so. The only snag here is that the messages would be generic (not about chemistry or history) and many forum moderators would reject them as off-topic. Here's a strategy to keep the messages from being rejected. If you're posting a note to a forum on psychology, then pick out half a dozen recent AcuWiki summaries of psychology articles. List them with links, and use them to introduce the idea of AcuWiki to the readers of the forum. (Peter Suber)
• solicit donations from existing summary collections
  • http://papersincomputerscience.org/about/
  • Tyler Schnoebelen's linguistics notes
  • Social decisions workshop
  • 'Commentary' sections for existing papers, e.g. Biochem J has these, see example
  • (list other ideas here)
• solicit donations of individual summaries
  • http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-logic-of-collective-action/
  • http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/11/toblers_law_urb.html
  • http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2009/11/density-hierarchy-and-power
  • parts of this: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Ckyi/~3/F5_9RzEN72A/accent-attitudes.html
  • http://www.bakadesuyo.com/are-the-most-romantic-gifts-expensive-and-wor
  • http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2011/05/14/recent-papers/ -- CC-BY-NC-SA
  • http://mikeolection.blogspot.com/2011/04/manifesto-for-web-science.html
  • http://finneboonen.org/?tag=paper
• solicit donations of articles with high public interest
  • http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jowei/
• collaborate with other groups with similar missions
  • Patients Participate "will investigate the potential of crowd- sourced “lay summaries”, derived from UK PubMed Central content". More info on their about page
  • Journalists' Resource

Collections we have permission to import

Explicit permission

• Brede wiki papers section -- Done! We are free to import these!
• Stian Haklev PhD wiki -- Note that all the clippings (on the clip: and kindle: pages) are direct extracts from articles, whereas the notes (on the notes:) pages are written by me, and are licensed CC-0. The same is probably the case for [Ryan Muller's], [Niklas Karlsson's] and [Cresencia Fong's] wikis, they all use the same system (I might be able to create a dump in a format useful to you, with bibtex metadata etc, if interesting)

Inherent in their licensing

• this paper and others at the same blog

What do we know already?

• Review existing summaries and draft a wiki meta page about best practices
• What can we learn from the history of Wikipedia?
• Use talk pages to *show* the community being built