This week, my University of Innsbruck hosted the conference on “Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in science communication”. I had the honor to deliver the opening keynote on “Science (Communication) and Wikipedia: Potentials and Pitfalls”. In this talk, I offer some thoughts on the following questions:

  • How ‘scientific’ is Wikipedia?
  • How important is science for Wikipedia?
  • How important is Wikipedia for science?
  • How important is Wikipedia for our common knowledge?
  • What are potentials when science communication meets Wikipedia?
  • What are the pitfalls?
  • Is it worth it?

The slides are available over at Slideshare.