Structure of the talk
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Times not meant to be precise.
- 5 min introduction: what is a wiki or Wiki(m/p)edia and how does this work?
- 5 min on coverage of taxonomy in general and North American mycoflora in particular, focus on English but show other languages too; include some GLAM stats
- 5 min on quality control
- 5 min on dispute resolution
- 5 min buffer
- 5 min discussion
- discussion is encouraged throughout the talk
intro:
Internet: link computers
Web: link documents
Wiki: make documents collaboratively editable
http://www.wikimedia.org
Wikipedia - the encyclopedia that anyone can edit
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Key issues for the Flora:
- How to ensure that claims in articles are based on the most appropriate (reliability, topicality) sources?
- "the most important references in terms of date, content, method, etc. get only as many references as do less important to unimportant and, even, forgetable secondary or tertiary sources."
- Doing this right requires access to sources and an understanding of recent developments in the field.
- Preference for secondary sources due to WP:NPOV
- Should macro- and micromorphology and phylogeny and keys all be included?
- Neither Wikipedia nor Wikispecies allow keys (considered Original research), Wikisource and Species ID do allow them. Scholarpedia does not yet have mycological articles, Citizendium very few.
- Phylogeny is often being revised these days, so may not be suitable for systematic inclusion across taxa.
- Micromorphology currently sparsely covered
- Macromorphology covered best, but extent biased by pop culture.
- Are there databases that could be queried systematically to provide authoritative data on things like spore size?
- Example at http://www.amanitaceae.org?Amanita+magniradix .
- This could be automated and integrated with Wikidata (if community wants it).
- How to handle non-scientific aspects of articles on mycological topics (e.g. role of fungi in murders of emperors; use of entheogens/hallucinogens)?
- Dedicated sections or sub articles, possibly mentioned in lead
Quality control:
Go to assessment matrix in WP:FUNGI
Conflict resolution: WP:ARBCOM
- Various WP policies and activities that en- or discourage constructive collaboration
- Learn from failures
- median number of contributors to open projects
- role of feedback and leadership
- Contribution = interest + barnstars + Jimbo (23:39)
- identification key papers: editorial, example
- Wikispecies, Species-ID & MycoKeys
- WP:NOR does not apply the same way to Wikiversity, Wikispecies and Wikisource
- Problem: taxonomy inconsistent between Wikipedia, Wikispecies and Wikimedia Commons
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