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On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:56 AM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem and potential solution are explained here > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:OA-ness Thanks - I took one of the workarounds you pointed to, so http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Daniel_Mietchen/Sandbox&oldid=475001832 now does what I wanted it to do. > However adding those icons everywhere is a big change, and it needs to > be discussed on the project, e.g. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Citation > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Academic_Journals > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VPPRO Sure, though the discussion we are having here on the mailing list looks like a good preparation for that. I think the minimal variant that would make sense is just the flagging of OA (of whatever kind) by way of the orange padlock. In the demo, I have added in the CC logos for the license being used by that publisher. This makes sense only for the rather few publishers (and perhaps repositories) that have all their content under a CC license (and preferably the same license for all articles). I do think it makes sense to consider adding "license" as an additional field to citation templates, but I am not convinced the icons (particularly at the size in the demo) are the way to go. If we go that way, we could also use doi-based (or similar) tools to determine the default for a publisher or outlet, and allow it to be overwritten by entering a different value in "license" (which would be especially useful for hybrid journals but requires a lot of manual work). I have also added the grey padlock for closed access (i.e. for cases when the DOi provides no information about any potential OA-ness of the reference at hand), and question marks to signal the need for a check. I am not yet convinced we should make wide-spread use of the grey padlock icon, and the question marks could be replaced by something more similar to existing maintenance templates. > btw, the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany Open Access Catalogue > hosted on wikipedia seems to be replicating much of the work already > being done on the OAD wiki. > > http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page Yes, but much of the OAD would be considered OR, whereas the Catalogue serves - amongst other things - to facilitate the transfer of suitable OAD information onto Wikimedia projects. Thanks and cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l