Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Open Access
Description
[edit]The WikiProject Open Access would be concerned with
- 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 {{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
- Item 1 is in the purview of WikiProject Academic Journals but extends beyond journals into open-access books and open-access repositories.
- Item 2 would be integrated with existing citation templates, especially {{Cite journal}}, which is also in the scope of WikiProject Academic Journals.
- Item 3 overlaps with Wikisource:WikiProject Academic Papers
- Items 4 and 5 overlap with GLAM initiatives.
- List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
- Open access (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Open access journal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Self-archiving (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- List of open access projects (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Category:Open access (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of pages in the category: 0)
- Category:Open access journals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of pages in the category: 718)
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Science (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of pages in the category: 0)
- List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles and categories
- Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Science (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
- For the moment, I would just like to gauge interest in a WikiProject approach to matters of Open Access. If the goals set out above can be achieved by way of existing WikiProjects, that is fine too.
Support
[edit]Please specify whether or not you would join the project.
- I would join. Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 08:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
- Brilliant idea! I came here looking for just this. You have done enough here to inspire me. I am going to set up the project immediately. Blue Rasberry (talk) 06:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)