On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:58 AM Svetlana Belkin belkinsa@fastmail.fm wrote:
Hello all,
I know there is a FOSS portal
Links/examples almost always help! I'd guess you mean this page or the pages it links to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange but many other people won't know what you're referring to. Please include links when talking about something specific!
but are there any portals for other Open *
topics, such as Open Science (including citizen science), Open Access,
Yes! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_access
ect.?
Maybe these (from a very quick search) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Open_data_publishing and dozens of other local, or smaller, or older pages such as https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Open_Science_Fellows_P... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_Residence_on_Open_Science
The rationale behind is to have these portals as umbrella groups for resources and what's there in these big movement topics and have them in one place- which is Wikipedia. Would this idea be worth it for the other movements?
Yes, please do update / improve the documentation.
If it's a major topic and after searching you cannot find anything central, then perhaps start out by creating a disambiguation / linkhub for the pages that you can find, and expand from there - that way you can try to make sure you've found all the existing pages to begin with, and don't start off by accidentally re-inventing the wheel (portal)! We have a lot of historic link-lists / portals that are started and then abandoned and then accidentally reinvented elsewhere a few years later.
Hope that helps. Quiddity