Thanks both.

Yes, we should keep trying to move this forward, both by way of adding
free-to-readness icons (as Antonin et al. are doing) and by importing
into Wikisource as much as possible of the openly licensed literature,
such that people become more aware of reusability.

Lots of past discussions on these topics, but not so much community
enthusiasm overall. Latest example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#Adding_a_license_parameter
.

The "subscription required" icon is one of the oldest in this space:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Subscription_required&action=history

Cheers,
d.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
<lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu> wrote:
> Hi Aubrey,
>
> About the signalling: we have worked to integrate OA locks into the
> citation templates, so that people can signal which source or which
> identifier is free to read or behind a paywall.
>
> For instance, in a {{cite journal}} template, you can use
>
> |doi=10.4204/EPTCS.244.2|doi-access=free
>
> to signal that this DOI is open access.
>
> It is not clear if the broader Wikipedia community really wants this
> signalling however, so the project is stalled by the outcome of the
> following RFCs:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_135#Access_locks:_Visual_Design_RFC
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_135#Access_Locks:_Citation_Template_Behaviour_RFC
>
> About finding OA versions of papers, there is a proposal for a bot that
> would add OA links to citations (using the same metadata sources as
> unpaywall and the OA button):
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OAbot
>
> Here is an example of the sort of edits it performs:
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/oabot/edits/2017-02-26T23:00:26.058245_765290719_Autocorrelation.html
>
> If anybody wants to get involved in the coding of this bot, that would
> be much appreciated. I can give access to the Git repo and the Tools lab
> account.
>
> Pintoch
>
> On 06/04/2017 10:14, Andrea Zanni wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>> After the great meeting that some of us had in Berlin,
>> I'd like to ask again what can we do to revive the "signalling open
>> access" project¹.
>> For those who don't know it, the idea was to put an icon beside links in
>> references, on Wikipedia, expressing
>> * if it's behind a paywall
>> * if it's free-to-read
>> * if it's free to reuse
>>
>> There are already great projects who find OA-versions of articles
>> online, like Unpaywall² or Open Access Button³. All their code is open
>> source and also the indexing of OA articles, so I'm sure there is room
>> for collaboration.
>>
>> I've also noticed that, right now, on Wikipedia, you can have a
>> "subscription required" icon beside some references. Is someone involved
>> in the that upgrade?
>>
>> Aubrey
>>
>> ¹
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness
>> ² http://unpaywall.org
>> ³ https://openaccessbutton.org/
>>
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