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The Wiki Education Foundation has launched the Wiki Playlist, a new way for readers to select their favorite Wikipedia articles and share them through social media. There are already playlists from physicist Lawrence Krauss, Doc James, and theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin. Feel free to make and share your own #yearofscience playlist! [ edit ]

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Romero, Juan David (16 February 2016). "Edit-a-Thon Seeks to Fix Wikipedia's Gaps in Science". AAAS. Lewontin, Max (16 February 2016). "Term papers? These science students write Wikipedia pages instead". Christian Science Monitor. Bastian, Hilda (13 February 2016). "Wikipedia activism and diversity in science". PLOS blogs. Neal, Meghan (11 February 2016). "Science Students Are Writing Wikipedia Articles Instead of Term Papers". Motherboard. Timmer, John (22 January 2016). "Wiki Education says 2016 is the Wikipedia Year of Science". Ars Technica. Newmark, Craig (14 January 2016). "Wikipedia and the Year of Science". Craigconnects. Ford, Knatokie (30 November 2015). "Honoring NASA's Katherine Johnson, STEM Pioneer". White House. Timmer, John (29 December 2015). "Editorial: Wikipedia fails as an encyclopedia, to science's detriment". Ars Technica. Ghose, Tia (24 August 2015). "Is Wikipedia trustworthy when it comes to science?". Washington Post. Teplitskiy, Misha; Lu, Grace; Duede, Eamon (2015). "Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science". Forthcoming in: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. arXiv:1506.07608v1. Wilson, Adam M.; Likens, Gene E. (14 August 2015). "Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale". PLOS ONE. 10 (8): e0134454. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1034454W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134454. PMID 26275058. If you've seen recent coverage of science on Wikipedia in a reliable source, click "edit" to add it here! For older sources, see the Resources page. [ edit ]

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Find out about events related to the Year of Science. Want to attend an event? See what’s happening near you, or online. Hosting an event? Add it here. May 5/9: Transit of Mercury 5/26: 23rd Annual APS-STP Teaching Institute: Implementing the APS Wikipedia Initiative in General Education Coursework, 3:45pm to 4:45pm, Chicago, IL 5/31: Science Outreach Working to Inspire the Next Generation: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Simons Foundation, 160 Fifth Avenue (at 21st Street), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10010 June 6/15: American Astronomical Society edit-a-thon, San Diego 6/19: American Society for Microbiology edit-a-thon, Boston July 7/4: Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter August 8/23: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research edit-a-thon, Kuala Lumpur 8/24: American Chemical Society Notable Chemists and Chemistry edit-a-thon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 9/21: Science Literacy Week edit-a-thon, "Local Women in Science', Vancouver, Canada November 11/14: Edit-a-thon vol.2: Women in science, Prague, Czech Republic December 12/15: Edit-a-thon, AGU 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California Click "edit" to add an event! [ edit ]