Alexandre Hocquet, 17/04/19 20:40:
My point is : as it can be imagined that the number of CC-BY scientific papers will likely sky-rocket in the next years, would not it be relevant to try to organise "CC-BY scientific papers" driven edit-a-thons
Importing text and images from freely licensed papers to Wikimedia wikis is a common practice. Several initiatives exist to further spread it. Wikimedia entities have stressed the importance of "libre open access" (free licenses) for over a decade now.
When we rewrote the terms of use in 2009, we made sure to make such imports easy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use#7c
Many local explanations and tools also exist, like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_text_from_other_sources#Can_I_copy_from_open_license_or_public_domain_sources?
The biggest import happened on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot
Larger imports of text have been discussed several times, mostly for Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Open_Access/Programmatic_import_from_PubMed_Central/Draft_RfC
Federico