Hi all,
Open access week has been great and we've had a lot of usage of OAbot
<http://www.oabot.org>, the tool that finds paywalled citations on
Wikipedia and suggests a free-to-read link to add in the reference. Nearly
2,000 links have been added so far this week!
But OAbot has been a victim of its success and can't keep up with the
usage. It's suffering from the suggestion queue getting depleted,
resulting in users seeing suggestions that are low-quality and have already
been 'skipped' by other users.
Our first need is to implement a 'reject' suggestion option, to clean out
the cruft and keep the queue quality.
Our phenomenal lead developer, Antonin Delpeuch from dissem.in, doesn't
have time to maintain the tool alone, so I'm putting out an open request
for collaborators!
If you can code, love open access, and/or know someone who does, please
point them here or back to me. This is an open-licensed collaborative
project and we'd love help!
Jake Orlowitz
Wikipedia Library
Technical details:
- The tool is written in Python with flask
- It stores candidate edits as JSON files on disk
- Proposed edits are represented by the TemplateEdit class declared in
main.py.
- To add a reject button, one needs to decide how to represent rejected
edits (storing the link only, storing the template and the link, storing
the DOI and the link...) and choose a form of storage for the list of
rejected edits (SQL table, text file, Wikipedia page...) so that anyone can
refine the blacklist
- When rejecting a link, all matching edits in the store of proposed
edits must be invalidated, and candidate edits discovered after that must
be matched against this database to filter them out
- Or you have a simpler way?
Codebase: https://github.com/dissemin/oabot
Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2734/
Documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OABOT
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Open Knowledge International is pleased to announce a new blog post
titled ‘Understanding
the cost of scholarly publishing - Why we need a public data infrastructure
for publishing costs
<https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/24/understanding-the-costs-of-scholarly-publi…>’.
As we celebrate International Open Access Week
<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>, we wish to highlight the lack of
financial transparency in the scholarly publication system. How much is
paid for scholarly communication? Do current publishing models work in the
service of research? How can more financial data help to understand
problems in the publishing system? These questions are extremely hard to
assess at the moment, because we simply lack the data for it.
In our blog post we make the case for a public data infrastructure of the
cost of scholarly publication. The post summarises evidence from different
studies to explain the drivers of financial opacity, its detrimental
effects on scholarly publication, and outlines steps that we can
collectively take towards a public data infrastructure.
Since Open Knowledge International is planning substantial work in this
field, we would love to invite your feedback. Maybe you have thoughts on
how you would like to move the topic forward? Maybe you plan activities in
this area?
We would love to learn how your upcoming plans and interests align with
this topic. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us and email myself
and Sander van der Waal (Head of Network and Partnerships) at
research(a)okfn.org. We are happy to arrange a short call.
In any case, please do feel free to share our blog post widely in your
networks.
Warm wishes,
Danny Lämmerhirt
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*Danny Lämmerhirt*
Researcher & Research Coordinator at Open Knowledge International
<https://okfn.org/>
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To help researchers (and Wikipedians), I've been collaboratively working on
a now 24-option guide about how to access sources when you don't have
access to them. Many of you are pros at this kind of digging. Could you
give it 10 minutes and feel free to make comments, suggestions,
corrections, or additions? Don't hesitate to be bold :)
***Review the full guide
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OOw4Pcz920bkbP24uOI7AVr5SOOlVOCXOOw1G4t…>***
You're a Researcher without Access to Research: What do you do?
Investigating solutions for small nonprofits, social impact organizations,
and earnest individuals.
The world of publishing is evolving frantically, while it remains
frustratingly fragmented and prohibitively expensive for many. If you're a
student who just left your plush academic library behind only to discover
you are now locked out of the stacks; a Swedish startup researching water
usage in Africa and keep hitting paywalls; a small nonprofit that studies
social change activism, but all the latest papers cost $40 per read… This
article is for you.
***Review the full guide
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OOw4Pcz920bkbP24uOI7AVr5SOOlVOCXOOw1G4t…>***
*Thank you!*
*Jake Orlowitz*
*Head of the Wikipedia Library*
*Wikimedia Foundation*