Scientists Database

Scientists DB A Wiki for Scientists, About Scientists, By Scientists Antony Williams, PhD

Do you have a Wikipedia reputation?
Are you a notable scientist? That’s what it takes to establish a Wikipedia presence for yourself
DON’T write your own Wikipedia page! That is self-marketing. You may contribute but someone else should publish and police initially
Check the rules for notability on Wikipedia – it is policed very carefully
But you can add yourself to ScientistsDB Wiki

Scientists on Wikipedia Recommended reading: http:// tinyurl.com/7e3l6rz

ScientistsDB http://www.scientistsdb.com /

ScientistsDB http://www.scientistsdb.com/
Wikipedia has stringent notability guidelines: http:// tinyurl.com/7r6s7gt
Many scientists are not notable enough to be on Wikipedia based on these guidelines
ScientistsDB is a database of scientists, young and old, historical and active, from various arms of science. Content is
Almost 50,000 articles from Wikipedia
User-contributed content

Cloned Wikipedia Content
Almost 50,000 Wikipedia articles cloned under Creative Commons licensing to ScientistsDB
A list of all available categories in science are available here
An alphabeticized list of almost 50,000 scientists is available here
A list of all scientists categorized by country is available here

Wikipedia Content on ScientistsDB

Scientists DB User-Contributions
Scientists can write their OWN articles, without the constraints of Wikipedia notability guidelines. This includes linking to other associated social network sites – Google Scholar Citations, Mendeley, LinkedIn, Blog, etc.
Scientists can contribute/edit other articles. Even articles written with potential Conflict-of-Interest (self-authored) can be policed by the community
Articles may get moved to Wikipedia when approved

Register for an Account
Go to www.scientistsdb.com and click on Log in
If you have an account then log in else Request One

Fill in account details

“ Approval” process
Your e-mail address will be sent a confirmation message once the request is submitted.
Respond by clicking on the confirmation link provided by the e-mail.
A password will be e-mailed to you when your account is created.

User Page
Your “User Page” is NOT your ScientistsDB article. It is a short description of who you are.
Keep short and sweet and save the detail for the full ScientistsDB article

ScientistsDB Article

Create Article
Search for the scientists name on Scientists DB
If it does not exist then Create the Page by clicking on the red text

Copy Template Content http:// tinyurl.com/7cqylsp
A template has been created for you to use as the basis of each ScientistsDB article. Hopefully you are familiar enough with MediaWiki to create your own page. Once the page has been created then simply copy the text contained within the template into the page and edit as appropriate. The template is available by clicking on the word template in this sentence.
An Infobox template has also been created here showing how to create an Infobox embedded in an article. In order to upload image files use the Upload File page.

Add an Image – Upload File
To upload a file (specifically image) click on the Upload File link at the bottom of the page

Add an Image – Upload File

Link out to all of your network pages
My social network links
My Blog: www.chemconnector.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChemConnector
My Total Impact: http:// tinyurl.com/3obnt6v
SciMobileApps Wiki : www.SciMobileApps.com
Amazon Author Page: Follow Link to Author Page
My Klout: http://www.klout.com/#/ChemConnector
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonywilliams
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
YouTube: http:// www.youtube.com/user/ChemSpiderMan
Google Scholar Citations Profile: Antony Williams Citations
Researcher_ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-3089-2009
Wikipedia Page: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_John_Williams
Mendeley Profile: http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/antony-williams/
My ProSkore: http://www.proskore.com/profile.cfm?ContactID=52423086
ResearchGate Profile: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antony_Williams/
My Microsoft Academic Research Page: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/12789419/antony-j-williams

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams

Scientists DB Proof-of-Concept
ScientistsDB is simply a proof-of-concept to see whether the community will participate and see value
Some potential integration paths include
Mendeley
Google Scholar Citations
Microsoft Academic Search
LinkedIn
Ideas are welcome but mostly we encourage you to create your own article!

Thank you Twitter: ChemConnector www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams

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by Antony Williams, ChemConnector on Jan 01, 2012

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