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with the goals of (1) improving Wikimedia content with the help of Open Access materials; (2) improving coverage of Open Access and related topics in partnership with WikiProject Open. |
The open access task force aims to help Wikipedians cooperate, organize, and share ideas on improving open access-related articles on Wikipedia, and provide OA materials with a new life, through Wikimedia projects. Ask questions on our talk page.
Everyone is welcome to help: people of all backgrounds and skill levels can contribute meaningfully. Join our list of participants, or just review the Task section below. You can also contact others on this list.
We hope you enjoy reading and improving Wikipedia's OA articles, or repurposing OA materials on Wikimedia projects,
- -The members
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Goals
The WikiProject Open Access is concerned with the following:
- starting and improving articles related to open access, as per this provisional list
- flagging OA-ness of references cited in articles on any topic, by way of the citation template parameters or {{Open access}}
- bringing Open-Access articles onto Wikisource
- bringing materials from open-access publications onto Commons
- supporting the reuse of such open-access-derived materials across Wikimedia projects
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Tasks
Do you support open access? If you have even a small amount of time and no experience or background in open access, there are still ways that you can help! Please consider trying to do one of the below tasks. If you need help getting started contact one of the people listed in the members section of this page.
Wikimedia Commons is the media repository for all language issues of Wikipedia and its sister projects. Images or media files published in scholarly articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License (also known as CC BY), a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA) or a Public Domain Dedication (CC0) can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and reused from there, e.g. in Wikipedia articles.
Audio and video files available under these licenses from PubMed Central are automatically uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by way of a bot. You can help this process, e.g. by using such files in Wikipedia articles or by checking the categories that the bot has proposed for its uploaded files. Bot support for uploading images is foreseen.If you see an article which is within the scope of this wikiproject, please tag its talkpage with our Wikiproject Open Access talk template. To tag an article as a Wikiproject Open Access article, please add
{{WikiProject Open Access | class= | importance= }}
to the top of the talk page, which yields this discussion template:
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- Quality and importance
"Quality" refers to article quality and "importance" refers to how important an article is for developing this project. When a user tags an article with the above template and rates the article, then it will be included in this table after the bot runs (every three days).
Click on any of the numbers in this table to go to a page where you can see the articles that have been rated as the table describes.Article alerts
Did you know
- 10 Feb 2025 – Anna's Archive (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by BruschettaFan (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 23 Jun 2021 – Intellectual property (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 21 Feb 2025 – Draft:Thoth Open Metadata (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Flavoursofopen (t · c)
- 31 Jan 2025 – Draft:The Aalitra Review (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eflac (t · c)
- 29 Jan 2025 – Draft:Emmanuel Olimi Kasigazi (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kasigaziemmanuel (t · c)
Members
Feel free to to indicate interest in wiki-work related to open access, or interest in answering related questions. Please also consider subscribing to the mailing list dedicated to matters at the interface of Open Access and Wikimedia more generally. For latest activity within the scope of the project, see here.
- Flavoursofopen, joined 22 April 2024
- 0066cc (talk) 18:14, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
- Cappuccino lover Rebecca💙 (talk) 15:59, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- DarTar (talk) 04:54, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) 17:06, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Guy Macon (talk) 18:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- John Vandenberg (chat) 00:01, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Pete (talk) (see also WP:COMMOER and WP:WIKISOO)
- Pnm (talk · contribs) 24 January 2012
- Rjwilmsi 12:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- ליאור • Lior (talk) 13:28, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
- Gaurav (talk) 07:27, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Gobonobo + c
- Maximilianklein (talk) 03:08, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
- Monadologist (talk) 12:35, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
- Was a bee (talk) 10:23, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
- Dcrjsr (talk) 23:40, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Mattsenate (talk) 06:03, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- Tvol (talk) 19:17, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
- Jeffrey Beall (talk) 13:41, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- Trondtr (talk) 06:27, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- mrchristian (talk) 11:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
- Lquilter (talk) 17:11, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
- KAS( talk) 16:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
- Klortho (talk) 10:34, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
- Nicke.me (talk) 07:03, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- Sridhar Gutam (talk) 08:48, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- User:Frederika Eilers
- Ron John(talk) 06:23, 17 January 2013 8:53 (EDT)
- Hindustanilanguage 18 February 2013.
- Sjgknight (talk) 15:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits
- Rulew (talk) 17:35, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
- --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:10, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- a13ean (talk) 22:04, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
- Leighblackall (talk) 23:32, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
- Aubrey (talk) 06:44, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- Dervorguilla (talk) 01:24, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- Sara FB (talk) 20:16, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
- Dentren
Organization
The three most common organizational systems on Wikipedia are navigational boxes, lists, and categories. Here are the organizational tools used by this project:
The {{Open access navbox}} navbox:
The {{Academic publishing}} navbox:
See also
- WikiProject Open Access on Wikisource
- WikiProject Open Access on Wikidata
- WikiProject Source MetaData on Wikidata
- Wikipedia:Open Access (archived proposal)
- WikiProject Academic Journals
- WikiProject Libraries
- ORCID on Wikipedia, a page about the use of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID on Wikipedia
- OA Navbox, part of the Wikipedia Library WikiProject
- WikiProject Open, which covers openness more broadly, including open educational resources, etc.
- WikiProject Software/Free Software
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