Story of the image: Reconstruction of the first Atomic Layer Epitaxy experiment

On December 6th, 2018, I have made a small donation to the world. I uploaded the image, which shows a reconstruction of the first Atomic Layer Epitaxy experiment (nowadays Atomic Layer Deposition) in Wikimedia Commons. (I also created a new gallery, Tuomo Suntola.)

The image is shared in Wikimedia Commons with the Creative Commons Attribute-Share Alike license (CC BY SA 4.0). This means that anyone in the world is free to use the image, also in commercial works, without the need to ask for further permission. The licence requires that one acknowledges the source (BY) and if edits are made, they are shared with a similar licence (SA). Ok ways in my view to acknowledge the source are: 

1. Noting the authors & licence: Riikka Puurunen & Tuomo Suntola 2014 (CC BY-SA 4.0) 
2. linking to the Wikimedia page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reconstruction_of_the_first_atomic_layer_epitaxy_experiment_by_Tuomo_Suntola.jpg. 

This image is quite special in my view and it was quite an effort to make it, so I am happy it is now shared for anyone's further use. (If someone is interested, I can tell another time, how it was made.) Had the image been used in the way it was first intended, it would not have been possible to share it in Wikimedia Commons. Luckily, things don't always go as planned. 

Here, I want to tell the story of this Suntola image, as an example to perhaps learn from.

Views on Wikipedia related to ALD and VPHA

People of all sorts of backgrounds (including journalists and politicians) use Wikipedia as a quick source to find basic information on a variety of subjects.

The next image shows pageviews analysis for a few pages relevant to ALD and VPHA, taken on January 28, 2017, and showing the statistics for the past twenty days. For example, the page of atomic layer deposition is viewed typically 100 to 200 times per day, while chemical vapor deposition is viewed typically 300 to 700 times per day. There is a pattern related to week days: towards weekend, there are less views. To compare, in ALD History Blog, the typical number of pageviews for an average page is several tens; the most viewed post (travel notes from ALD 2016) has received 297 views all time as of Feb 28, 2017.

I have during VPHA understood how valuable Wikipedia and also Wikimedia Commons are as a sources, and I invite everyone to contribute in continuously improving their information. Non-specialists will appreciate clear and jargon-free language, logical structure of the page, good pictures and relevant references. Review articles should be good as links. All references should be openly available for viewing---regarding scientific articles, this means that they should be not be behind a paywall but be of open access.

VPHA status update 2016-02-12

The status update below was sent to 49 co-authors and 32 prospective co-authors.

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Dear VPHA co-authors and prospective co-authors,

In this VPHA status update, you find information on the following items:

1. VPHA abstract to ALD 2016 conference (new DL: Feb 17)
2. ALD thesis list - 183 entries, and many missing
3. Wikimedia Commons ALD collection
4. Wikipedia updates #WikiALD
5. VPHA in numbers
6. Other ALD History Blog posts

Wikimedia Commons has new categories: Atomic Layer Deposition and Tuomo Suntola

Categories are an easy way to organize files in Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons, again, is an easy way to store files of general use in Wikipedia, to be used in related texts written on the same topic in different languages. As part of VPHA Wikipedia update (#11 in our Publication Plan), two new categories have been created in Wikimedia Commons:

• Atomic Layer Deposition 
• Tuomo Suntola

If you add files to Wikimedia Commons, please remember to add the right categories, to find back files easily.



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Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) - in atmosphere of Openness, Respect, and Trust

Wikipedia update: English page and photograph for Tuomo Suntola

Recent progress in the Wikipedia update (#11 in the VPHA Publication Plan):

1. Tuomo Suntola has a Wikipedia page in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomo_Suntola. Thank you to Angel Yanguas-Gil for creating this first version of the Suntola page. Updates are to come. 
2. A photograph of Suntola has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for everyone's use: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuomo_Suntola,_2014.JPG. This photo was taken by myself at the Baltic ALD 2014 conference in Helsinki during Suntola's opening invited talk, and I have now donated it to the Wikipedia update effort. The photo has been uploaded with a Creative Commons licence, and the copyright line needs to be remembered in further use. I think this will do: "Author: Riikka Puurunen. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Internationallicense". Tuomo himself has also approved the use and uploading of the photograph to Wikimedia Commons.   

Tuomo Suntola giving the opening invited talk entitled "From ideas to global industry - 40 years of ALD in Finland" at the International Baltic ALD conference, May 12, 2014, in Helsinki, Finland. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. Released to Wikimedia Commons on January 20, 2016.

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Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) - in atmosphere of Openness, Respect, and Trust