My Wikimedia work combines English-to-Italian translation and adaptation, original explanatory writing, citation review, structured-data editing and scientific visualizations. The public record shows both the edits and the material behind them.
These articles began as English-to-Italian translations. My work included terminology research, source checks, citation repair and adaptation for Italian readers. The reading links open my published contribution revisions, saved under my Digressivo account. The English source versions and full histories are listed separately; current collaborative articles may include later edits.
Daniela Bortoletto: developing an Italian particle-physics biography
An English biography of the Italian particle physicist Daniela Bortoletto was translated and adapted for Italian readers, then expanded and prepared for publication through terminology, sourcing and structure work.
Created an 8,721-byte Italian draft through Content Translation on 30 August 2021.
Reworked the article structure, corrected specialist terminology and added or repaired sources covering Oxford, CERN, detector development and the discoveries of the top quark and Higgs boson.
The English article on shadow libraries was adapted into Italian across scholarly communication, copyright, open access and distributed technical infrastructure.
Created a 9,713-byte Italian article through Content Translation on 26 July 2023 and moved the completed draft into mainspace the same day.
Adapted terminology spanning academic publishing, copyright, open access, databases, BitTorrent, the dark web and IPFS.
Freedom Cities: creating a neutral English-language policy article
An emerging US political and urban-development proposal was documented across campaign material, academic analysis, think-tank plans, draft legislation and independent reporting, without an existing English Wikipedia article that brought the evidence together.
Researched, structured and created an 18,351-byte English Wikipedia article, then moved it from userspace into mainspace on 16 August 2025.
Synthesized the original proposal, technological and social vision, supporting organizations, legal pathways, regulatory exemptions, infrastructure feasibility, governance concerns and ideological analysis.
The initial revisions are attributed to my Digressivo account. Current Wikipedia articles are collaborative and include later changes by other editors.
Selected source-review contributions
Syndromic autism: building a structured biomedical evidence section
The English Wikipedia autism article lacked a structured explanation of syndromic and non-syndromic autism and a comparative representation of associated genetic conditions.
Synthesized peer-reviewed biomedical literature into a sourced explanation of syndromic and non-syndromic autism.
Organized clinically defined, molecularly defined and currently undefined categories using phenotype-first and genotype-first concepts.
Archival reconstruction of a legally sensitive public record
A missing and fragmented public record concerned a journalist's reporting on an alleged internal organization chart, followed by criminal, appellate, cassation and civil proceedings.
Recovered unavailable or unstable source material through web archives, URL matching and reconstruction of likely document paths.
Located an archived copy of the original 2008 newspaper PDF and reconciled it with contemporary reporting, court coverage and later procedural developments.
Scientific visual communication and publication reuse
My original diagram, published on Wikimedia Commons on 10 February 2024 under CC BY-SA 4.0.What does this diagram explain?
Intersecting regions show genes associated with more than one clinical phenotype. This helps readers see shared associations alongside the sourced explanation; it is not a diagnostic tool.
My diagram was reused in Michele Di Salvo’s chapter “Genetic Research on Autism: From the ‘Autism Gene’ to the ‘Genetic Susceptibility Base’”, in Autism Research between Psychology and Neuroscience (Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature), 2024). The Commons reuse record also documents use across four Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata: organising a book and its critical literature
In July and August 2025, I organised bibliographic records around Against Intellectual Monopoly, linking the book to five reviews and critical discussions.
Created the book record and four review or discussion records, adding publication metadata, source URLs and identifiers including DOIs and an SSRN record.
Added links from reviews to the book and from the book to sources discussing it, including an existing article record.
These are attributable contributions to a collaborative bibliography. The linked material includes reviews and critical discussions with different publication statuses; current records may include later edits.
Wikidata: bilingual terminology and descriptions
My volunteer Wikidata work includes English and Italian terminology and descriptions for technical and biomedical records. These examples show the text contributed through my Digressivo account and the revisions that establish attribution.
Search history: technical terminology
Existing English description:log of past queries made by a user in an information system
Italian description I added:registro delle query di ricerca passate di un utente
Added an Italian description, label and synonyms so the software concept can be identified and understood in Italian.
These are attributable volunteer terminology and metadata contributions to a collaborative public knowledge base. They complement the source-verification work in my Yourself to Science directory.
Selected article examples come from the September 2026 evidence review. Reading versions and attribution records were rechecked on 23 October 2026. The Wikidata terminology and bibliography examples and their attributed revisions were reviewed on 26 October 2026. Primary article links use revisions saved by my Digressivo account; full histories show the surrounding contributions.
Mario Marcolongo
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