Should you write on Wikipedia?

Authors

  • Trond Trosterud UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Erik Lieungh UiT The Arctic University of Norway

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/19.5304

Keywords:

academic publications, academics, journals, knowledge, library, Open Access, open education, Open Science, peer review, science, UiT, Wikipedia

Abstract

In this episode, we talk about Wikipedia. Is this something that researchers should engage themselves in? What is the greater good? How do you resolve conflicts over facts? And does your research credentials matter for the Wikipedia-community? In 2011 the Guardian wrote an article on this: Wikipedia wants more contributions from academics. Our guest today is Trond Trosterud, professor of Sámi Language Technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He’s an administrator on Wikipedia, and have been contributing there the past 14 years.

The message from Trosterud is clear: More researches should contribute, especially if they want to get more readers. However, Wikipedia is not a place to publish your new research. The site even states this on their Help-page.

The host of this episode is Erik Lieungh.

This episode was first published 25 September 2019.

Author Biographies

Trond Trosterud, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Trond Trosterud is a professor in Sámi Language Technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His research interests include language technology, morphological theory, Machine Translation and Parser-based Computer-Assisted Language Learning.

Erik Lieungh, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Erik Lieungh is a digital adviser at the University Library and the host and editor of Open Science Talk.

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Published

2020-02-04

How to Cite

Trosterud, T., & Lieungh, E. (2020). Should you write on Wikipedia?. Open Science Talk, (21). https://doi.org/10.7557/19.5304

Issue

No. 21 (2019): Should you write on Wikipedia?

Section

Podcasts