Hi all, 

The post is now live on the EFF blog: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/free-open-access-and-wikipedia

We will cross-post it to the Wikimedia blog shortly and I think that Stanford CIS may cross-post it on theirs.

Thanks so much for all your input and help with this!

Best, 

Yana

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi Yana,

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Yana Welinder <ywelinder@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Quick question about this comment:
>
>> It is worth mentioning that many more Wikipedia articles already
>> incorporate text from openly licensed scholarly articles (cf.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_text_from_open_access_publications
>> ) and that a subset thereof (cf.
>>
>> http://topicpages.ploscompbiol.org/wiki/Category:PLoS_Computational_Biology_articles)
>> have actually been written by scholars for that purpose and published
>> in a peer-reviewed journal.
>
>
> Were the articles in the subset written by scholars on Wikipedia and then
> published in a peer-review journal like the article on Dengue fever? Or did
> the scholars publish scholarship in a peer-reviewed open access journal in
> order for the papers to be incorporated in Wikipedia articles? I think it is
> the former, but just wanted to make sure that I got it right.
It's more of the latter - the articles are actually drafted and
reviewed on a separate MediaWiki instance (e.g.
http://topicpages.ploscompbiol.org/wiki/Multi-state_modeling_of_biomolecules
), then published in the journal, then on Wikipedia. For more details
on that, see
http://wikiambassador.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/03/28/publishing-scholarly-wikipedia/
.

When precisely do you intend to post the piece? We're working on a video about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness
that should be ready in the next few days and may be a good fit for your post.

d.

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