February 10: The two
Requests for comment on using icons in citation templates to signal accessibility of the cited sources have been closed. One of them was concerned with the
behaviour of the citation templates, the other one with the
design of the icons. In both cases, consensus was not clear, though some aspects could be agreed upon.
November 9: The open license text reuse tool for the Visual Editor toolbar originally
proposed in June is
reposted as part of the
community wishlist.
November 1: The
Open Access Media Importer crosses the mark of
30,000 uploads after expanding in scope and uploading over 7000 multimedia files to Wikimedia Commons within a few days.
October 29: Citation templates on the English Wikipedia have been
updated so they can now signal the accessibility of cited sources. References cited via their
PubMed Central ID automatically get a
green OA lock.
June 25: a
paper on how scholarly references are cited on Wikipedia concludes "the chief effect of open access policies may be to significantly amplify the diffusion of science, through an intermediary like Wikipedia"
April 1: A
JATS-Con talk discusses technical aspects of importing open-access materials from
PubMed Central into Wikimedia projects on an automated basis. (
traffic stats).
January 19: An
op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost presents the
Signalling OA-ness project to a wider audience and contains a demo of how it might fit with both the NISO recommendations and existing Wikimedia workflows for handling references, especially with signalling full text available via Wikisource, media via Wikimedia Commons and metadata via Wikidata.
January 15: On the
13th birthday of Wikipedia, two posts on the Wikimedia blog discuss access to the scholarly literature in the context of Wikimedia projects. The
first one concentrates on
The Wikipedia Library and its efforts to provide Wikipedia authors with read access to quality sources in order to improve and expand Wikipedia content. The
second one focuses specifically on Open Access and how the Wikimedia and Open Access communities have interacted over the years. Both form part of the Wikimedia contributions to
Copyright Week, a week of actions around copyright legislation, led by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
January 10: WikiProject Open Access was
created on this day in 2012. It now counts about
60 members who oversee about
260 articles on the English Wikipedia as well as
about 23,000 files on Wikimedia Commons, about 6,000 of which are used some 66,000 times across 300 Wikimedia projects, gathering around
30 million monthly page views.
January 6: The
NISO Workgroup on Open Access Metadata and Indicators have released a
draft of recommendations for how to signal use and reuse rights of scholarly publications. These consist of a <free_to_read> tag intended to signal whether and when a publication is available publicly without a requirement for payment or registration, and a <license_ref> tag intended to point to a URI containing the licensing terms. The draft is open for public comments until February 4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access is
exploring how such signalling could work in a Wikipedia/ Wikimedia context.
September 30: A
paper on how inconsistent
XML delivered by publishers to
PubMed Central hinders the reuse of open-access materials by automated tools like the
Open Access Media Importer is now available on the NCBI Bookshelf. It shall be presented at
JATS-Con at the
NIH on October 22.
September 26: The
BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for August are out,
indicating 31 million visits across 210 Wikimedia projects to a total of 56k article pages that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
September 18: According to
GLAMorous (
WebCite copy), over 300 Wikimedia projects now use materials from
Category:Open access (publishing) on Wikimedia Commons, which currently has 21107 files, 5626 of which are used a total of 64326 times across Wikimedia platforms.
August 15: Wikipedia articles on the newly discovered mammal species of Bassaricyon neblina ("Olinguito") - whose formal description was
published earlier today in
ZooKeys - exist
in 8 languages and are featured (with the image shown here) in the "in the news" sections of the
Main Pages of the
Catalan,
English,
Portuguese and
Russian Wikipedias as well as in an
article on the Polish Wikinews.
July 29: A bug inflating some of the
GLAMorous stats has been fixed. For the Commons category
Open access (publishing), the corrected version now
indicates a total of 19683 files, 5266 of which have been used a total of 54308 times across 296 Wikimedia projects.
July 11: The
BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for June are out,
indicating 35 million visits across 206 Wikimedia projects to a total of 47k article pages that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
July 3: The
GLAMorous tool has been ported to Wikimedia Labs. For the Commons category
Open access (publishing), it
indicates a total of 19218 files, 5111 of which have been used a total of 93839 times across 297 Wikimedia projects.
July 1: An
abstract on "Inconsistent XML as a barrier to reuse of Open Access Content" has been accepted for
JATS-Con at
NCBI from October 22-23 (i.e. during
Open Access Week). It documents how work on the
Open Access Media Importer has been impeded by inconsistencies in the XML that publishers supply to
PubMed Central.
June 30: The
BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for May are out,
indicating 39 million visits across 207 Wikimedia projects to a total of 45k article pages that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
February 8: The BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for January are out,
indicating 42 million visits (up from 21 million last January) across 203 Wikimedia projects (up from 142) to a total of 39k article pages (up from 19k) that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
October 29: The
Bot request for the
Open Access Media Importer has been
approved. The bot will now routinely spider the biomedical literature deposited in
PubMed Central for articles that are licensed compatibly with reuse on Wikimedia Commons and that have audio or video files in their
supplementary materials. The videos featured under
under Media of the Day on Commons this month have all been uploaded during the test phase of the bot.
October 23: Examples of reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing Open Access materials in the context of Wikimedia projects are being highlighted in a
blog post on the
PLOS blog on the occasion of
Open Access Week.
September 18: The article
Lesula was
featured on the
Main Page of the Swedish Wikipedia after this new species of monkey (scientific name: Cercopithecus lomamiensis) had been
described in
PLOS ONE.
Traffic stats.
August 22-25: The article on the green lacewing Semachrysa jade (see below for image) is
featured on the Main Page of the Russian Wikipedia.
Traffic stats.
February 10: The two
Requests for comment on using icons in citation templates to signal accessibility of the cited sources have been closed. One of them was concerned with the
behaviour of the citation templates, the other one with the
design of the icons. In both cases, consensus was not clear, though some aspects could be agreed upon.
November 9: The open license text reuse tool for the Visual Editor toolbar originally
proposed in June is
reposted as part of the
community wishlist.
November 1: The
Open Access Media Importer crosses the mark of
30,000 uploads after expanding in scope and uploading over 7000 multimedia files to Wikimedia Commons within a few days.
October 29: Citation templates on the English Wikipedia have been
updated so they can now signal the accessibility of cited sources. References cited via their
PubMed Central ID automatically get a
green OA lock.
June 25: a
paper on how scholarly references are cited on Wikipedia concludes "the chief effect of open access policies may be to significantly amplify the diffusion of science, through an intermediary like Wikipedia"
April 1: A
JATS-Con talk discusses technical aspects of importing open-access materials from
PubMed Central into Wikimedia projects on an automated basis. (
traffic stats).
January 19: An
op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost presents the
Signalling OA-ness project to a wider audience and contains a demo of how it might fit with both the NISO recommendations and existing Wikimedia workflows for handling references, especially with signalling full text available via Wikisource, media via Wikimedia Commons and metadata via Wikidata.
January 15: On the
13th birthday of Wikipedia, two posts on the Wikimedia blog discuss access to the scholarly literature in the context of Wikimedia projects. The
first one concentrates on
The Wikipedia Library and its efforts to provide Wikipedia authors with read access to quality sources in order to improve and expand Wikipedia content. The
second one focuses specifically on Open Access and how the Wikimedia and Open Access communities have interacted over the years. Both form part of the Wikimedia contributions to
Copyright Week, a week of actions around copyright legislation, led by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
January 10: WikiProject Open Access was
created on this day in 2012. It now counts about
60 members who oversee about
260 articles on the English Wikipedia as well as
about 23,000 files on Wikimedia Commons, about 6,000 of which are used some 66,000 times across 300 Wikimedia projects, gathering around
30 million monthly page views.
January 6: The
NISO Workgroup on Open Access Metadata and Indicators have released a
draft of recommendations for how to signal use and reuse rights of scholarly publications. These consist of a <free_to_read> tag intended to signal whether and when a publication is available publicly without a requirement for payment or registration, and a <license_ref> tag intended to point to a URI containing the licensing terms. The draft is open for public comments until February 4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access is
exploring how such signalling could work in a Wikipedia/ Wikimedia context.
September 30: A
paper on how inconsistent
XML delivered by publishers to
PubMed Central hinders the reuse of open-access materials by automated tools like the
Open Access Media Importer is now available on the NCBI Bookshelf. It shall be presented at
JATS-Con at the
NIH on October 22.
September 26: The
BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for August are out,
indicating 31 million visits across 210 Wikimedia projects to a total of 56k article pages that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
September 18: According to
GLAMorous (
WebCite copy), over 300 Wikimedia projects now use materials from
Category:Open access (publishing) on Wikimedia Commons, which currently has 21107 files, 5626 of which are used a total of 64326 times across Wikimedia platforms.
August 15: Wikipedia articles on the newly discovered mammal species of Bassaricyon neblina ("Olinguito") - whose formal description was
published earlier today in
ZooKeys - exist
in 8 languages and are featured (with the image shown here) in the "in the news" sections of the
Main Pages of the
Catalan,
English,
Portuguese and
Russian Wikipedias as well as in an
article on the Polish Wikinews.
July 29: A bug inflating some of the
GLAMorous stats has been fixed. For the Commons category
Open access (publishing), the corrected version now
indicates a total of 19683 files, 5266 of which have been used a total of 54308 times across 296 Wikimedia projects.
July 11: The
BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for June are out,
indicating 35 million visits across 206 Wikimedia projects to a total of 47k article pages that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
July 3: The
GLAMorous tool has been ported to Wikimedia Labs. For the Commons category
Open access (publishing), it
indicates a total of 19218 files, 5111 of which have been used a total of 93839 times across 297 Wikimedia projects.
July 1: An
abstract on "Inconsistent XML as a barrier to reuse of Open Access Content" has been accepted for
JATS-Con at
NCBI from October 22-23 (i.e. during
Open Access Week). It documents how work on the
Open Access Media Importer has been impeded by inconsistencies in the XML that publishers supply to
PubMed Central.
June 30: The
BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for May are out,
indicating 39 million visits across 207 Wikimedia projects to a total of 45k article pages that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
February 8: The BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for January are out,
indicating 42 million visits (up from 21 million last January) across 203 Wikimedia projects (up from 142) to a total of 39k article pages (up from 19k) that use images or media from the Commons category
Open access (publishing).
October 29: The
Bot request for the
Open Access Media Importer has been
approved. The bot will now routinely spider the biomedical literature deposited in
PubMed Central for articles that are licensed compatibly with reuse on Wikimedia Commons and that have audio or video files in their
supplementary materials. The videos featured under
under Media of the Day on Commons this month have all been uploaded during the test phase of the bot.
October 23: Examples of reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing Open Access materials in the context of Wikimedia projects are being highlighted in a
blog post on the
PLOS blog on the occasion of
Open Access Week.
September 18: The article
Lesula was
featured on the
Main Page of the Swedish Wikipedia after this new species of monkey (scientific name: Cercopithecus lomamiensis) had been
described in
PLOS ONE.
Traffic stats.
August 22-25: The article on the green lacewing Semachrysa jade (see below for image) is
featured on the Main Page of the Russian Wikipedia.
Traffic stats.