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The learn, share, invent cycle is a model describing how researchers can incorporate Wikipedia editing into their existing professional workflow. It is composed of three basic steps:
- Learn: The researcher does background research in an area, based on an immediate need such as a research idea in that area.
- Share: The researcher creates new Wikipedia articles or fact-checks and expands existing articles to summarize what they have just learned about the area.
- Invent: The researcher uses what they have learned to derive novel results.
After making some progression in the invent stage, the research may discover that more background research is needed, completing the cycle.