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I'm forbidden by WP:COI from doing this myself, but I think the Galaxy Zoo article would benefit from the inclusion of links to the peer-reviewed papers we've released. Two (to date) have been accepted - Land et al and Lintott et al and one other is available online - Bamford et al.. Could someone oblige? Chrislintott ( talk) 14:26, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
An infinite loop is a programming error, and is not the same as an unresponsive site. Galaxy Zoo can be slow at times, it has a lot of users. But it remains valid and should not have been removed. Thanks to Olaf Davis for restoring it.-- GwydionM ( talk) 17:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
I have added a link in the "See also" section to the "Pea galaxy" article as I'm sure that it is relevant to this subject, and deleted some unwanted incorrect material. Rick Richard Nowell ( talk) 11:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
The Milky Way Project, http://www.milkywayproject.org, was launched today by galaxyzoo.org. Shouldn't that be included in the article? -- Mortense ( talk) 16:14, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
The table is excellent, but it consists mostly of detailed references that would only interest a professional astronomer or a very keen amateur. This could go on a new page, referenced from here.
On this page, I'd suggest just the titles of the articles, maybe grouped by 'Submitted', 'Accepted' and 'Publised'. Plus a few extra details where these might be of wider interest. The Sudden Death of the Nearest Quasar is an example: quasars have a high profile and it would be interesting if confirmed that there was one still functining during human prehistory. -- GwydionM ( talk) 12:08, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
BTW, the "Galaxy Zoo: An Unusual New Class of Galaxy Cluster" paper is an April Fools joke. nihil ( talk) 14:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I presume I am not allowed to edit this page as I'm the Project Scientist for Galaxy Zoo, but I wonder if the table of all the publications (which is out of date) is really helpful. Could it just point to the list we maintain of our publications at [www.zooniverse.org/publications]? I think Galaxy Zoo can claim to be the most scientifically productive (in terms of peer reviewed publications) of all online citizen science projects, but I cannot prove that. We currently have 42 published papers (as you can see at the above link), but I expect that number to increase quite quickly so probably not worth recording. KarenLMasters ( talk) 14:49, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I removed the entire list. It is unorthodox to have these kinds of lists on Wikipedia, as this is not done for scientists, authors, institutions, and other entities unless the papers themselves (not the discoveries described in the papers) attract third-party attention. A few representative papers is sometimes okay but rarely preferable. If anyone has comments on this removal then please share. Feel free to look at other articles on research organizations or data-producing organizations; these kinds of lists are out of scope for what Wikipedia tries to cover. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:28, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Well there has been press about some of the papers. We wrote a review article for Astronomy & Geophysics last October (based on a conference we had) - but I guess that's not third party. There's a paper by Ron Buta on Galaxy Morphology which cites the contributions of Galaxy Zoo (but perhaps not individual papers). I remember there being press about red spirals, the peas, the discovery that bars might make spiral galaxies redder, Hanny's Voorwerp of course, and there was a bit on the first results from Galaxy Zoo Hubble…. probably there's more. I'm not sure this is tons more than happens for many published results, but I guess the difference her is the general interest in results from Galaxy Zoo linked to the method of getting the classifications. KarenLMasters ( talk) 20:20, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
Really, if the article was filled out and used refs to all the available papers, then we wouldn't need a list. A list is lazy in many ways: it is far more useful if a paragraph is written and the available papers referenced. A list is just that: referenced sections are more encyclopedic and demonstrate understanding. That I consider is the next step- use the information in these 44 papers, rather than list them. Richard Nowell ( talk) 11:00, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
Have removed section 'Progress' and replaced it with 'Galaxy Zoo projects (active and retired)'. The refs used are the definitive results papers and do not include every paper as a result of that project. This is a first step for the updating of this article. Richard Nowell ( talk) 10:46, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Nice work Richard. :) My comments are that it would be nice to have some summary of science results on here. One of the things which distinguishes Galaxy Zoo (and the Zooniverse) from many other citizen science projects is the focus on peer reviewed published results. Great to list the number, but some summary of the high-lights would be even better. I'll think about 3rd party sources for that. Would also be nice to mention Galaxy Zoo was a very early adopter of online citizen science. Again noted the need for a 3rd party source to prove that. :) KarenLMasters ( talk) 11:19, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
In the "Importance of Volunteers" section, my book "Reinventing Discovery" is quoted as saying: "GZ went beyond computers, because it applied human intelligence to do deep analyses of large data sets." I don't believe this sentence appears in the book. The closest excerpt I can find (p 142) is: "Like a computer, Galaxy Zoo can find patterns in large data sets, data sets far beyond the comprehension of any single individual. But Galaxy Zoo can go beyond computers, because it can also apply human intelligence in the analysis, the kind of intelligence that recognizes that the voorwerp or a green pea galaxy is out of the ordinary, and deserves further investigation. Galaxy Zoo is thus a hybrid, able to do deep analyses of large data sets that are impossible in any other way. It's a new way of turning data into knowledge." Michael Nielsen ( talk) 22:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
As the above July 2014 Update section was getting very large, I've started a v2. I've endeavoured to place studies into groups, so that all the dust ones are in dust etc. This seems to work ok. I've deleted the 'Selected Science Papers' section from this Talk as it was no longer needed. I suggest the original 'List' of papers (The List) is removed, as this has become obsolete. I'm now trying to source pictures to illustrate the article. There needs to be more wikification and the sections need expanding, but this will happen over time. There is no 'highlights section', nor IMHO does there need to be. The list of some universities has been removed as it seemed arbitrary and did not represent all. I hope the article seems more encyclopedic now. It's certainly a lot easier to understand, access and edit I feel. The 'External links' now has only five in it, in accordance with WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. Richard Nowell ( talk) 10:27, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Have started to try and make it more 'readable' and not just a collection of ref'd sentences; less prosaic. Richard Nowell ( talk) 23:25, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
For another project we just collected independent references mentioning Galaxy Zoo as a successful project. I don't have time to properly wikify these right now, but though adding them here as a resource might be useful for others who might want to include some of this in the site.
The US Decadal Review of Astrophysics? http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/special-events/astro2010-astronomy-and-astrophysics-decadal-survey/
contains the following :
"One such project, Galaxy Zoo, enables on-line users to classify galaxies from Sloan Digital Sky Survey images; to date more than 230,000 registered users have analyzed data, and a few have produced unique new discoveries (see figure 4-3). The success of Galaxy Zoo has inspired the creation of similar Citizen Science projects to analyze imaging from space missions to the Moon and Mars, and the model is being duplicated in other fields of science. "
A similar mention in a Council of Canadian Science Culture document: http://www.scienceadvice.ca/uploads/eng/assessments%20and%20publications%20and%20news%20releases/science-culture/scienceculture_fullreporten.pdf
says "One example of a citizen science project that has attracted widespread attention is Galaxy Zoo. ", and "Well-known examples of citizen science initiatives include Galaxy Zoo,"
There's this from the EU on Environmental Citizen Science, http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/IR9.pdf
"With the internet has risen a ‘new wave’ of online crowd-sourcing projects sometimes termed ‘citizen cyberscience’. Possibly the most oft-cited and high profile example is Galaxy Zoo "
A report on New Visions in Citizen Science from the Wilson Center http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ profiled 17 successful citizen science projects (including Galaxy Zoo).
And David Willetts mentioned Galaxy Zoo as a part of the success story for UK science in a speech when he was minister for BIS. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/great-britain-the-best-place-in-the-world-to-do-science
"Indeed 1 of the secrets of our success is what we now call citizen science, which delivers large volumes of research quality scientific data, fast. Thousands of ordinary volunteers have analysed online images of galaxies with Galaxy Zoo,"
KarenLMasters ( talk) 16:14, 10 October 2014 (UTC) (Project Scientist for Galaxy Zoo)
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I'm forbidden by WP:COI from doing this myself, but I think the Galaxy Zoo article would benefit from the inclusion of links to the peer-reviewed papers we've released. Two (to date) have been accepted - Land et al and Lintott et al and one other is available online - Bamford et al.. Could someone oblige? Chrislintott ( talk) 14:26, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
An infinite loop is a programming error, and is not the same as an unresponsive site. Galaxy Zoo can be slow at times, it has a lot of users. But it remains valid and should not have been removed. Thanks to Olaf Davis for restoring it.-- GwydionM ( talk) 17:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
I have added a link in the "See also" section to the "Pea galaxy" article as I'm sure that it is relevant to this subject, and deleted some unwanted incorrect material. Rick Richard Nowell ( talk) 11:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
The Milky Way Project, http://www.milkywayproject.org, was launched today by galaxyzoo.org. Shouldn't that be included in the article? -- Mortense ( talk) 16:14, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
The table is excellent, but it consists mostly of detailed references that would only interest a professional astronomer or a very keen amateur. This could go on a new page, referenced from here.
On this page, I'd suggest just the titles of the articles, maybe grouped by 'Submitted', 'Accepted' and 'Publised'. Plus a few extra details where these might be of wider interest. The Sudden Death of the Nearest Quasar is an example: quasars have a high profile and it would be interesting if confirmed that there was one still functining during human prehistory. -- GwydionM ( talk) 12:08, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
BTW, the "Galaxy Zoo: An Unusual New Class of Galaxy Cluster" paper is an April Fools joke. nihil ( talk) 14:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I presume I am not allowed to edit this page as I'm the Project Scientist for Galaxy Zoo, but I wonder if the table of all the publications (which is out of date) is really helpful. Could it just point to the list we maintain of our publications at [www.zooniverse.org/publications]? I think Galaxy Zoo can claim to be the most scientifically productive (in terms of peer reviewed publications) of all online citizen science projects, but I cannot prove that. We currently have 42 published papers (as you can see at the above link), but I expect that number to increase quite quickly so probably not worth recording. KarenLMasters ( talk) 14:49, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I removed the entire list. It is unorthodox to have these kinds of lists on Wikipedia, as this is not done for scientists, authors, institutions, and other entities unless the papers themselves (not the discoveries described in the papers) attract third-party attention. A few representative papers is sometimes okay but rarely preferable. If anyone has comments on this removal then please share. Feel free to look at other articles on research organizations or data-producing organizations; these kinds of lists are out of scope for what Wikipedia tries to cover. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:28, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Well there has been press about some of the papers. We wrote a review article for Astronomy & Geophysics last October (based on a conference we had) - but I guess that's not third party. There's a paper by Ron Buta on Galaxy Morphology which cites the contributions of Galaxy Zoo (but perhaps not individual papers). I remember there being press about red spirals, the peas, the discovery that bars might make spiral galaxies redder, Hanny's Voorwerp of course, and there was a bit on the first results from Galaxy Zoo Hubble…. probably there's more. I'm not sure this is tons more than happens for many published results, but I guess the difference her is the general interest in results from Galaxy Zoo linked to the method of getting the classifications. KarenLMasters ( talk) 20:20, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
Really, if the article was filled out and used refs to all the available papers, then we wouldn't need a list. A list is lazy in many ways: it is far more useful if a paragraph is written and the available papers referenced. A list is just that: referenced sections are more encyclopedic and demonstrate understanding. That I consider is the next step- use the information in these 44 papers, rather than list them. Richard Nowell ( talk) 11:00, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
Have removed section 'Progress' and replaced it with 'Galaxy Zoo projects (active and retired)'. The refs used are the definitive results papers and do not include every paper as a result of that project. This is a first step for the updating of this article. Richard Nowell ( talk) 10:46, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Nice work Richard. :) My comments are that it would be nice to have some summary of science results on here. One of the things which distinguishes Galaxy Zoo (and the Zooniverse) from many other citizen science projects is the focus on peer reviewed published results. Great to list the number, but some summary of the high-lights would be even better. I'll think about 3rd party sources for that. Would also be nice to mention Galaxy Zoo was a very early adopter of online citizen science. Again noted the need for a 3rd party source to prove that. :) KarenLMasters ( talk) 11:19, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
In the "Importance of Volunteers" section, my book "Reinventing Discovery" is quoted as saying: "GZ went beyond computers, because it applied human intelligence to do deep analyses of large data sets." I don't believe this sentence appears in the book. The closest excerpt I can find (p 142) is: "Like a computer, Galaxy Zoo can find patterns in large data sets, data sets far beyond the comprehension of any single individual. But Galaxy Zoo can go beyond computers, because it can also apply human intelligence in the analysis, the kind of intelligence that recognizes that the voorwerp or a green pea galaxy is out of the ordinary, and deserves further investigation. Galaxy Zoo is thus a hybrid, able to do deep analyses of large data sets that are impossible in any other way. It's a new way of turning data into knowledge." Michael Nielsen ( talk) 22:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
As the above July 2014 Update section was getting very large, I've started a v2. I've endeavoured to place studies into groups, so that all the dust ones are in dust etc. This seems to work ok. I've deleted the 'Selected Science Papers' section from this Talk as it was no longer needed. I suggest the original 'List' of papers (The List) is removed, as this has become obsolete. I'm now trying to source pictures to illustrate the article. There needs to be more wikification and the sections need expanding, but this will happen over time. There is no 'highlights section', nor IMHO does there need to be. The list of some universities has been removed as it seemed arbitrary and did not represent all. I hope the article seems more encyclopedic now. It's certainly a lot easier to understand, access and edit I feel. The 'External links' now has only five in it, in accordance with WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. Richard Nowell ( talk) 10:27, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Have started to try and make it more 'readable' and not just a collection of ref'd sentences; less prosaic. Richard Nowell ( talk) 23:25, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
For another project we just collected independent references mentioning Galaxy Zoo as a successful project. I don't have time to properly wikify these right now, but though adding them here as a resource might be useful for others who might want to include some of this in the site.
The US Decadal Review of Astrophysics? http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/special-events/astro2010-astronomy-and-astrophysics-decadal-survey/
contains the following :
"One such project, Galaxy Zoo, enables on-line users to classify galaxies from Sloan Digital Sky Survey images; to date more than 230,000 registered users have analyzed data, and a few have produced unique new discoveries (see figure 4-3). The success of Galaxy Zoo has inspired the creation of similar Citizen Science projects to analyze imaging from space missions to the Moon and Mars, and the model is being duplicated in other fields of science. "
A similar mention in a Council of Canadian Science Culture document: http://www.scienceadvice.ca/uploads/eng/assessments%20and%20publications%20and%20news%20releases/science-culture/scienceculture_fullreporten.pdf
says "One example of a citizen science project that has attracted widespread attention is Galaxy Zoo. ", and "Well-known examples of citizen science initiatives include Galaxy Zoo,"
There's this from the EU on Environmental Citizen Science, http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/IR9.pdf
"With the internet has risen a ‘new wave’ of online crowd-sourcing projects sometimes termed ‘citizen cyberscience’. Possibly the most oft-cited and high profile example is Galaxy Zoo "
A report on New Visions in Citizen Science from the Wilson Center http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ profiled 17 successful citizen science projects (including Galaxy Zoo).
And David Willetts mentioned Galaxy Zoo as a part of the success story for UK science in a speech when he was minister for BIS. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/great-britain-the-best-place-in-the-world-to-do-science
"Indeed 1 of the secrets of our success is what we now call citizen science, which delivers large volumes of research quality scientific data, fast. Thousands of ordinary volunteers have analysed online images of galaxies with Galaxy Zoo,"
KarenLMasters ( talk) 16:14, 10 October 2014 (UTC) (Project Scientist for Galaxy Zoo)
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