Hi guys. I'd like to signal this thread to you: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58033
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
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: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58033
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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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: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58033
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
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
-- __ Tomás Saorín
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
But I guess the aims and the target of Wikipedia Zero is more educational than scientific. Photos, clips and ilustrations have much more higher educational possiblities of use, than research articles.
There is a risk in trying to put inside Wikimedia project every kind of information source, specially when there is a stablished and reliable ecosystem of open access repositories, with standarized discovery protocols and long-run policies to increase its coverage.
Wikipedia Zero has to be perforce a limited effort, it can't contain itself thw whole web.
2013/12/6 Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com
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.comwrote:
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: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58033
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
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
-- __ Tomás Saorín
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
Pictures are generally not visible as they are too data heavy,
J
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.comwrote:
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.comwrote:
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: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58033
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
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
-- __ Tomás Saorín
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