Hi, I don’t think it was recorded as it wasn’t in the main auditorium.
Hopefully Daniel remembers the fourth reason. Thanks, David On 16 Oct 2014, at 19:26, Yana Welinder <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all! I'm sorry that I missed the OA panel at Wikimania. Does anyone > know if there is a video of the panel? > > Thanks, > Yana > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Melissa Hagemann > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yana, > > To build on Daniel's comment re inclusion of OA in Wikimania this year, Jimmy > spoke on an OA panel Daniel and I participated in. Jimmy gave four great > reasons as to why OA is important to Wikimedia. Unfortunately, I was chairing > the session, and didn't write them all down, but perhaps Daniel remembers, as > Jimmy framed his talk very well. I believe three of them were: > > OA is important to Wikimedia as it provides access to research in: > - developing countries > - everyone with Jack Andraka as an example > - the OA scholarly research which is made available which can be used to > develop WMF projects > > Cheers, > Melissa Hagemann > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Mietchen > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:42 AM > To: Open Access discussions > Subject: Re: [OpenAccess] Blog post on Open Access > > Thanks, Yana. Comments inline. > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Yana Welinder <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We are doing a guest blog post on open access for EFF next week. > Cool! > > > > > Free as in Open Access and Wikipedia > > > > > > Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia sites are closely connected to open > > access ideals > "ideals" has a bit too much of a romantic connotation here. Something like > "goals" would be better, I think. > > > of making scholarship freely available and reusable. Consistent with > > these ideals, the Wikimedia sites make information available to > > internet users around the world free of charge in hundreds of > > languages. Wikimedia content can also be reused under its free > > licenses. The content is enriched by citations to open access > > scholarship, and the Wikimedia sites play a unique role in making > > academic learning easily available to the world. As the next > > generation of scholars embraces open access principles to become a > > true Generation Open, > - the video linked there is licensed -NC-ND (as displayed shortly before the > end, and contrary to the CC BY indicated in the metadata), so I would not > link to it. > - "true" in such contexts is also problematic, especially near non-open > licenses and considering that open access refers only to access to (some of > the) final outputs of research, rather than all outputs and the entire > process. > > > we will move closer to "a world in which every single human being can > > freely share in the sum of all knowledge." > > > > > > To write and edit Wikipedia, contributors need to access high quality > > independent sources. Unfortunately, paywalls and copyright > > restrictions often prevent the use of academic journals to write > > Wikipedia articles and enrich them with citations. Citations are > > particularly important to allow readers to verify Wikipedia articles > > and learn more about the topic from the underlying sources. Given the > > importance of open access to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia community of > > contributors has set up > I don't think that "set up" should be linked, and the link currently in there > is not a good fit anyway (it would fit better to the "importance of open > access to Wikipedia" phrase above or the "closely connected" one from the > introductory sentence, or the "reciprocal relationship" below). > > > a WikiProject Open Access to > > improve open access-related articles on Wikipedia > and to increase the reuse of open-access materials on Wikimedia platforms > more generally, e.g. as per > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot > or > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness > . > For an overview of activities, see the monthly reports at > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:This_Month_in_GLAM_Open_Access_reports > . > > > and create an Open Access > > Policy for research projects with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation. > Those were not the goals of the creation of the WikiProject, and the policy - > which is still in draft stage, by the way - has not received support from the > Foundation, and that link is to a page that is misleading in the context of > this blog post, as it only clarifies the meaning of the term "significant > support" for the purposes of that draft policy. > > > Great potential lies in the reciprocal relationship between the open > > access scholarship that enriches Wikipedia and Wikipedia’s promotion > > of primary sources. As a secondary source, Wikipedia does not publish > > ideas or facts that are not supported by reliable and published > > sources. Wikipedia has tremendous power as a platform for relaying the > > outcomes of academic study by leading over 400 million monthly > > visitors to underlying scholarship cited in articles. Just as a > > traditional encyclopedia would, Wikipedia can make the underlying > > research easier to find. But unlike a traditional encyclopedia, it > > provides free access and free reuse to all. In that sense, Wikipedia is an > > ideal secondary source for open access research. > Here, it would be appropriate to mention the Open Access Reader project: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Access_Reader . > > > In light of this, we are thrilled to see Generation Open blooming. > Not sure what you see blooming here. > > > The > > Digital Commons Network now boasts 1,109,355 works from 358 institutions. > Most of these are actually not openly licensed. > > > The Directory of Open Access Journals further has over 10,035 journals > "over 10,000" would be more appropriate. > > > from 135 countries. > > > > Esteemed law journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and > > Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and Michigan Law Review > > subscribe to the Open Access Law Program, which encourages them to > > archive their articles under open access principles. > These journals archive their content under free-to-read principles, with > limited options for reuse. See also > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Open_Access_Initiative#Definition_of_open_access > . > > > Wikipedians are also contributing to the body of published open access > > scholarship. Earlier this month, four Wikipedians published an article > > on Dengue fever in Open Medicine (an open access and peer-reviewed > > journal) based on a Wikipedia article that was collaboratively edited > > by 1,369 > "over 1,300" may be better here > > > volunteers and bots. In addition to providing an open access scholarly > > article on this important topic, this publication validated that > > Wikipedia's editorial process can produce high quality content outside > > traditional academia. > Yes. > > It is worth mentioning that many more Wikipedia articles already incorporate > text from openly licensed scholarly articles (cf. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_text_from_open_access_publications > ) and that a subset thereof (cf. > http://topicpages.ploscompbiol.org/wiki/Category:PLoS_Computational_Biology_articles) > have actually been written by scholars for that purpose and published in a > peer-reviewed journal. > > > Placing scholarship behind paywalls has the effect of relegating new > > advances in human knowledge to small academic communities. As more > > academics allow their work to be shared freely, online secondary > > sources like Wikipedia will play a large role disseminating the > > knowledge to more people in new regions and on different devices. > Yup. Perhaps worth mentioning that there was an entire Wikimania track > devoted to Open Scholarship this year (with a focus on Open Access; > https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Scholarship ) and that > Wikimedia-related talks have been given at Open Access meetings (e.g. > http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/transparency-in-measures-of-scientific-impact/ > or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/COASP_2014 > ). > > Last but not least, Open Access Week has a Wikidata item ( > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2000002 ) and that Wikimedians have actively > participated in it in the past (e.g. > https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/ ). > > Looking forward to the next version of your post, Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAccess mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess > _______________________________________________ > OpenAccess mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAccess mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess David Carroll Open Access Button Project Lead [email protected] @davidecarroll ---- I prefer to use encrypted email. 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