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
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