Wikipedia and Web 2.0
Search & use for scientific purpose
by
Patrick 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

Clusty
http://clusty.com
Categories
Sub Categories
Pictures

Exalead
http://www.exalead.de/wikipedia/
Multilingual
pictures
facial browsing: categories, places, people
related 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