English subtitles for clip: File:Wikipedia Science Conference 2015 summary video.webm

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This is the first Wikipedia Science Conference.

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It's a two-day event around Wikipedia and those open communities and their ways of working,

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and scientific research, scientific publication on the other and how those two things connect.

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I've come along to the conference because I'm particularly interested in researcher training,

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and at Cancer Research UK we're interested in how our researchers

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could work with Wikipedia to help the public interact with their research.

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I think the interactions that happen between research scientists and Wikipedians

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and everybody else who comes here is amazing. They really have very specialist

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knowledge that they can share with each other, and also they come up with ideas and they

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can solve each other's problems and work on projects together

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and that's something that's very difficult to do online.

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We've been very lucky to have on the first day as keynote speaker, Professor Dame Wendy Hall.

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Not only is she a very distinguished scientist, very accomplished,

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but her work is in scientific data and its availability on the web,

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and the technological and political aspects about how that becomes must usable and sharable.

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So it's all about cataloguing at this stage. It may change over time; this is a social machine we're building,

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and who knows what it will become. But the idea is open access

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to the information about where the datasets are, and who's got what datasets, so we

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can start to join them up, rather than keep them in lots of different silos.

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Initially, this was just an idea that I posted on a wiki-page, and I roped in the volunteers and staff

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of Wikimedia UK, that they would support an event if we found a partner organisation to host.

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We asked Wellcome, and we got to host the conference in this fantastic conference centre with the

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library and collection, the whole building celebrating science, and health, and the advance

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of knowledge. And then we needed an evening event, as all conferences need,

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and the Royal Society of Chemistry stepped in to sponsor a drinks reception. So, not only did we have

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that, the Wellcome Collection opened their reading room which is a fantastic display

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of books and artefacts about health, so we feel quite privileged to have a conference event in that place.

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I gave a presentation at the conference today, called 'Changing the Ways the Stories are Told'

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which is really about Women in Science edit-a-thons, where we get groups of women

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together to edit Wikipedia, looking at the history of medicine, and the history of science,

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and we just improve the coverage and the articles about those women and the historical events.

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At the Natural History Museum, as an example, we used to be very,

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very closed with our data and our images. And now you're starting to see more

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and more of our images appearing on Wikipedia and that's a really good thing.

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People are realising how what we're doing in Wikipedia is central to what the scientists and scientific

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bodies want to do. Now we have a whole conference where we've set up the conference and they've

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come to us. That's a real milestone in our relationship with the scientific community.