Neuromathematics on wikipedia: creating and improving content on web 2.0 platforms

• Grant number: 17/04989-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Journalism
• Start date: April 01, 2017
• End date: March 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications - Journalism and Publishing
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Jorge da Paixão Filho
• Grantee: Wilson Krugner Vicentim
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), Canada
• Associated research grant: 13/07699-0 - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics - NeuroMat, AP.CEPID

Abstract

One of the main challenges faced by the academic community, science diffusion may be and is already potentialized by technologies attributed to the so-called web 2.0, among which, there is Wikipedia. This project has as goal to continue the process of intensification of the use of the on-line encyclopedia in the diffusion of contents related to Neuromathematics, focus of the NeuroMat Wikipedia Initiative. Another purpose is to understand the relation between numeracy in a country and the level of its inhabitants' contributions to the entries on the subject on the electronic encyclopedia. (AU)