A wikisource toolchain for importing articles would be wonderful. There is no equivalent place for public comments, categorization, and dense internal linking across such texts.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 2:36 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
