Post on 19-Jun-2015
Wikipedia and Web 2.0Search & use for scientific purpose
byPatrick Danowski
About me
Computer scientist
Librarian (Master of LIS)
State Library of Berlin
Member of the board Wikimedia Germany
Scientific interests: library 2.0,Wikipedia, digitalization, open access
Programm
Basics
Web 2.0
Searching
Quality
Using / Citing
Writing
Basics
Wikipedia
User Generated Content
Free Licenses
Living Documents
Free Licences
GFDL
CC-BY
CC-BY-SA
Alle licences are Open Access Conform
Web 2.0
Content by the users
Everyone can publish
Wikipedia
Weblogs
Social Tagging
Searching
Methods Finding Information
Searching Browsing
The „normal“ search
Other search engines
Wikimedia Search
LuMrix
Clusty
Exlead
Wikimedia - Search
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kolossos/tree
multi-lingual
auto complete
but slow
LuMriX
http://wiki.lumrix.net
faster
autocomplete
search article beginnings
LuMrix
Exalead
http://www.exalead.de/wikipedia/
Multilingual
pictures
facial browsing: categories, places, peoplerelated terms, organizations
details editable
Other Tools
Widgets
Plugin for Open Office
Browsing
Links
Categories in Wikipedia
Portals
Categories
Portals
Starting Point for thematic browsing
For readers
For writers
Lot of themes
for example ....
General Tips
Try out more Search Engines (Always!)
The Firefox integration is a good helper
Browsing will sometimes bring interesting results
Quality
Quality test
Wikipedia / Encyclopedia Britanica
Average 4 Errors / 3 Errors
Featured articles
Good articles
How can we know which article is good and
which not?A few tips for critical reading Wikipedia
Indicators
Markers at the page
Discussion Page
History of the article
Markers
This Article is not neutral
In this Article is missing ...
Source is missing
History of the Article
How long is the article stable?
What are the comments of the editors?
Is there an edit war?
Discussion Page
Quality Classification
Read the Discussion
Also on the page: Reviews of the article
Citation
How should articles be cites?
Gene therapy. (2007, April 23). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:31, April 23, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gene_therapy&oldid=125190686
Should articles be cites?
Yes but....
not as proof
not alone
Source critic
Writing
Why writing?
Help others to find what there are searching
Share your knowledge
How Writing
But i have no time...
Other ways to help:
use free licenses for publications & pictures (GFDL, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA)
support Open Access
allow commercial use and changes
Conclusions
Try out different Searches
Support the open knowledge movement
And you will get something back
All links will be soon at:http://del.icio.us/user/PatrickD/BIOCONTROL
Contact: Patrick.Danowski@web.de