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Hi all,
This morning I met Nick Shockey from SPARC [1] and the Right to Research
Coalition [2]. He's in Brussels to set up their Advocacy strategy and
campaign on OA and OER.
What we have have very much in common with them is that we're both worried
that the term "Open Access" might be diluted to mean just having access.
They also like to have more and more things put under a cc-by license,
which overlaps with our goals. (As a reminder, here are our positions on
the topic: [3][4])
The R2RC is organising an Open Access, Open Education and Open Data
conference in Brussels coming November [5] and have asked us for some help:
1. Advise them on their advocacy targets and strategy. (I am already doing
that.)
2. Participate in the conference by sending Wikimedians on scholarships.
(Do you think we could/should do it and if yes how?)
3. They're planning a reception in the European Parliament in November and
need a speaker. (Can we recommend someone?)
4. Struggle for interpretation: They have a brochure in the US explaining
and defining OA in line with the Budapest Declaration. (Should we work with
them on creating a European version and disseminating it?)
Thanks!
Dimi
[1]http://www.sparc.arl.org/about/staff/nick-shockey
[2]http://www.righttoresearch.org/
[3]http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/
[4]http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/20/free-open-access-and-wikipedia/
[5]http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/opencon-2015-details-announced.shtml
Hello everyone,
Thanks a lot for all your great suggestions and comments. I appreciate your
insights.
Stuart - that's a really good point. One quick way to ensure the bot isn't
adding information that's already there is by checking if the source
article has already been cited on that specific Wikipedia page. If the
citation is already present on that page, then users could potentially
check if the new content is redundant.
Edward - I read about Open Access Reader and I think it's a great
initiative. I could contribute to this project by providing summaries,
citation information, and the target page section to insert the summary
into. We could crowdsource the 'integration' step.
Lane - thanks a lot for all your great ideas. I would be interested in
discussing options 3 and 4 in further detail.
Option 3 - Talk pages would be a great platform for directly posting the
summaries. Volunteers could help with the integration process.
Option 4 - Do you have any suggestions on where we could post information
on Wikipedia? Volunteers could propose where to post and / or my bot could
propose possible page sections for volunteers to choose from. This will
definitely serve as a useful continuous feedback loop.
Pierre-Carl - I understand the Open Access Project OA-signalling tool is
working on annotating whether citations refer to open access articles or
not. That initiative could definitely help identify the OA citations for
each articles. Is there any other way to determine this currently?
I look forward to hearing from all of you.
Best,
Saloni
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> Hi everyone,
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> I think an interesting first trial would be to select automatically
> retrieve relevant OA bibliographies for each articles. As an experienced
> wikipedian, I can testify that searching for references might be a
> time-consuming activity, especially whenever I'm dealing with a topic I
> don't know fully well. This kind of feature would allow to focus on the
> actual writing.
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> Greetings,
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> PCL
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> Le 27/05/15 13:34, Lane Rasberry a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here are some options. We could talk more about any of them.
> >
> > 1. A bot which created new Wikipedia articles about certain well
> > reported clinical trials would probably be more feasible than
> > putting sentences into Wikipedia health articles.
> > 2. If you actually want to put content into existing articles, there
> > probably is no way for your team learning how to do this without
> > someone close to you spending about 40 hours on Wikipedia learning
> > community practice. Wikipedia is the world's most consulted source
> > of health information and takes itself seriously in this space.
> > 3. If you want the easiest path, make the bot exactly as you say, but
> > have it post to article talk pages so that a human volunteer can
> > preview the content and integrate it into the Wikipedia article
> > manually.
> > 4. If you want to trial this, have the bot post information in a list
> > anyone on or off Wikipedia and let volunteers choose where to post
> > this. If you do this you would get feedback on what works and how
> > it works.
> >
> > yours,
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Edward Saperia
> > <ed(a)wikimanialondon.org <mailto:ed@wikimanialondon.org>> wrote:
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> > Very interesting!
> >
> > I've been working on a project that is related, but uses humans to
> > do summarising and inserting:
> >
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenAccessReader
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> > On 27 May 2015 at 08:49, Saloni Agrawal <saloniagrawal(a)gmail.com
> > <mailto:saloniagrawal@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone, my name is Saloni, and I’m a bioinformaticist.
> >
> > I am interested in integrating scientific literature into
> > Wikipedia. I’m developing software that imports short 3 or
> > 4-sentence summaries from open access articles into
> > appropriate sections of Wikipedia pages. The idea is for
> > readers to have access to open and recent published research
> > and to make Wikipedia a more comprehensive resource.
> >
> > For example, this paper
> > (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10906501) describes
> > a clinical study carried out among Latin American women to
> > test a combined injectable contraceptive called Mesigyna. My
> > software is designed to summarize a few sentences from the
> > abstract (Creative Commons license for legal reasons) and
> > integrate it on this page “Combined injectable contraceptive”
> > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_injectable_contraceptive
> )
> > elaborating on Mesigyna in the Formulations sections.
> >
> > Ideally, I would like to develop this into a bot so that users
> > don’t have to manually add information. I would really
> > appreciate any guidance and guidelines on implementing this
> > and how to get approval from the Wikipedia community.
> >
> >
> >
> > I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions.
> >
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> > Best regards,
> >
> > Saloni
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Hello everyone, my name is Saloni, and I’m a bioinformaticist.
I am interested in integrating scientific literature into Wikipedia. I’m
developing software that imports short 3 or 4-sentence summaries from open
access articles into appropriate sections of Wikipedia pages. The idea is
for readers to have access to open and recent published research and to
make Wikipedia a more comprehensive resource.
For example, this paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10906501)
describes a clinical study carried out among Latin American women to test a
combined injectable contraceptive called Mesigyna. My software is designed
to summarize a few sentences from the abstract (Creative Commons license
for legal reasons) and integrate it on this page “Combined injectable
contraceptive” (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_injectable_contraceptive)
elaborating on Mesigyna in the Formulations sections.
Ideally, I would like to develop this into a bot so that users don’t have
to manually add information. I would really appreciate any guidance and
guidelines on implementing this and how to get approval from the Wikipedia
community.
I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions.
Best regards,
Saloni
(apologies to those who have heard about this from every librarian they
know for the past month)
A major publisher announced at the end of April that they will seek to
prevent green OA author's manuscripts* from appearing on
publicly-accessible websites, including institutional repositories,
within an embargo time of up to four years (depending on the journal).
According to COAR (the Confederation of Open-Access Repositories), this
is retroactive. They also announce a policy of noncommercial noderivs
licenses on all copies of author's manuscripts, which would mean that
we, for instance, couldn't use images from these sources, even after the
embargo had expired.
*(post-peer-review, pre-publisher-copyediting-and-formatting, for
complete clarity; see W:self-archiving)
This seems to have annoyed some repositories, and they are requesting
signatures for their statement of opposition:
https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-a….
The signatories make a nice list of possible institutional
collaborators. It is possible the Wikimedia Foundation may also wish to
comment.
The publisher does say that academics may publish their own articles on
their personal blogs and websites (judging from past takedown requests,
this appears not to cover personal webpages hosted by universities).
Compared to institutional repositories, indexing and discovery would be
more difficult and more fragile. So we have a substantial new use case
for WikiData WikiProject Source MetaData.
Can we write something to post to the Confederation of Open-Access
Repositories, essentially saying that we can help crowdsource links to
historical papers, and maintain those links in future? How far do people
think we are, practically, from being able to do this? Many of these
repositories have good open APIs and good staff, so we could in
principle upload a lot of metadata fast.
Regards,
HLHJ
Hi folks,
I'm reposting below a request from the advocacy-advisors list. My hunch is
that this list will be pretty well informed about Freedom of Panorama
issues and be able to help.
Jake (Ocaasi)
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Hi Everyone,
I'm a legal intern in WMF's San Francisco office. I'm doing some research
on Freedom of Panorama and the digital single market. If anyone is able to
suggest any cases or other sources that discuss or demonstrate the effects
that harmonizing FoP laws would have on the single market, please get in
touch. Thanks very much!
Best,
Aeryn Palmer
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