Scientific Significance Statement

Generation of and access to scientific information have traditionally been limited to those with privilege or power. The internet, and the development of Wikipedia, has revolutionized the way information is shared by allowing everyone connected to the internet to generate and access content. However, the scientific community has not taken full advantage of this information dissemination paradigm. This is particularly true in the aquatic sciences, as is evidenced by the scarcity and low quality of aquatic information on Wikipedia. We argue that societies, institutions, and scientists should prioritize and incentivize contributing to Wikipedia in parallel to traditional scientific outlets to increase both equity and efficiency in transferring aquatic scientific information among our community and to the public.

Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world.

Aaron Swartz (2008)

中文翻译：

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维基百科可以帮助解决水科学中的信息不平等问题

科学意义声明

传统上，科学信息的产生和访问仅限于具有特权或权力的人。互联网以及Wikipedia的发展，通过允许每个连接到互联网的人都可以生成和访问内容，彻底改变了共享信息的方式。但是，科学界尚未充分利用这种信息传播范式。在水生科学中尤其如此，维基百科上水生信息的匮乏和质量低下就是证明。我们认为，社会，机构和科学家应优先考虑并鼓励对Wikipedia的贡献（与传统科学手段并行），以提高在社区和公众之间传递水生科学信息的公平性和效率。

那些可以使用这些资源的人（学生，图书馆员，科学家）将获得特权。在世界其他地区处于封锁状态时，您可以在这种知识盛宴上养活自己。但是您不必-确实，从道德上讲，您不能-自己保留此特权。您有责任与世界分享。

亚伦·斯沃兹（Aaron Swartz）（2008）