Hi Tomas.
I brought the thread to our attention because I remember another conversation with DocJames, 
who had a very important point stating that Wikipedia Zero could be the way where millions of people can access scientific literature, via Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Zero is a project by WMF to give access for free to Wikipedia via mobile devices, all around the world, expecially in the "global south". 

Now, I don't really know if pictures in Wikipedia articles are visible with Wikipedia Zero, of if they would be in the near future: but in that case, 
PDFs stored on Commons could be the same thing.
The viewer could allow users to access sceintific articles for free, directly. 

Aubrey



On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Tomas Saorin <saorintomas@gmail.com> wrote:
In my opinion it's enough with easy linking and citing facilities of papers that are yect in a good open access repository (institutional or subject-based). Let's focus in core-business of Wikipedia or Commons.

In the Wikipedia side, what it's useful is just a fine-tuned template for marking a reference as "open acces". In repositories`side, a widget to generate the code to "cite on Wikipedia", as Europeana an others are doing.

Tomas


2013/12/6 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com>
Hi guys.
I'd like to signal this thread to you:

I think that having a good MediaViewer that handles PDFs could be a disrupting feature on Wikipedia.

We, for example, could upload Open Access articles, which are cited in bibliographies or references, directly on Commons, and have them viewed and read directly on Wikipedia. 

Not sure if this is feasible,but it's worth discussing.

Aubrey


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