Hey folks!
For Open Access Week 2018 we're running the Wikipedia Library's
OAbot.org
campaign again. OAbot is a simple tool that helps you find a paywalled
citation on Wikipedia and add a free-to-read linked version in the
reference. Here's how you can help:
1) TRY THE TOOL YOURSELF
Just follow the steps at
OAbot.org. This one is self-explanatory. You
can see where you fall on the leaderboard here:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/oabot/stats
2) SPREAD THE CAMPAIGN ON SOCIAL MEDIA (SAMPLE MESSAGES YOU CAN USE):
- Many hands make light work. Clear the backlog of paywalled citations
on @Wikipedia without a free-to-read alternative link.
OAbot.org
- What's better than a citation on @Wikipedia? A citation you can
access, read, and verify. Make it happen:
OAbot.org
- This OAweek, make a dent in the scholarly universe by making just one
@Wikipedia citation free-to-read. Our
OAbot.org tool will show you a
reference and help you add it to Wikipedia. Try it out!
- Wikipedia can only truly share the sum of human knowledge if people
can read its references! Make our shared mission reality by adding
free-to-read links into paywalled citations using
OAbot.org!
- What if every scholarly reference on @Wikipedia included a link to a
free-to-read version, preprint, or author-hosted manuscript? You can make
it happen with
OAbot.org!
- We think we've found an open access version of an article cited on
Wikipedia! Can you review our guess and edit @Wikipedia to include a link
to it?
OAbot.org
- Imagine if every citation on @Wikipedia was free to read. You can get
us closer to that goal with
OAbot.org!
-
OAbot.org has made nearly 6,000 citations accessible to @Wikipedia
readers. Can we double that this year?
tools.wmflabs.org/oabot/stats
- A recent study found that 60% of scholarly citations on @Wikipedia are
*not* free for readers to access. Let's change that with
OAbot.org
Good hashtags to include: #openaccess #oaweek #wikicite. If you could
please share just one of these in the next week from your social media
account it would amplify the campaign all over the world.
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia more reliable and more verifiable for
everyone!
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
Wikipedia Library
Wikimedia Foundation