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This presentation provides an overview of ScientistsDB, a database of scientists based on MediaWiki that integrates Wikipedia articles about scientists and also allows community contribution of articles. By removing the notability guidelines associated with Wikipedia it is possible for ANY scientist to write their own article on ScientistsDB and have the community edit and contribute, all in the Open.
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Scientists DB A Wiki for Scientists, About Scientists, By Scientists
Antony Williams, PhD
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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
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Scientists on WikipediaRecommended reading: http://tinyurl.com/7e3l6rz
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ScientistsDBhttp://www.scientistsdb.com/
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ScientistsDBhttp://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
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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
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Wikipedia Content on ScientistsDB
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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
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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
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Fill in account details
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“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.
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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
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ScientistsDB Article
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ScientistsDB Article
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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
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Copy Template Contenthttp://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.
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Add an Image – Upload File
To upload a file (specifically image) click on the Upload File link at the bottom of the page
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Add an Image – Upload File
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Add an Image – Upload File
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Add an Image – Upload File
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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
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LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams
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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!
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Thank you
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