Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task force

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Welcome to the pen access task force with the goals of (1) improving Wikimedia content with the help of Open Access materials; (2) improving coverage of Open Access and related topics in partnership with WikiProject Open. JOIN

The open access task force aims to help Wikipedians cooperate, organize, and share ideas on improving open access-related articles on Wikipedia, and provide OA materials with a new life, through Wikimedia projects. Ask questions on our talk page.

Everyone is welcome to help: people of all backgrounds and skill levels can contribute meaningfully. Join our list of participants, or just review the Task section below. You can also contact others on this list.

We hope you enjoy reading and improving Wikipedia's OA articles, or repurposing OA materials on Wikimedia projects,

-The members

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Userboxes

To support the project, you can use one of these userboxes: {{User OA}} This user is in the open access task force. {{User:UBX/open access}} This user is interested in open access to research literature. Adding one of the userboxes above will put you in Category:Wikipedians interested in open access.

The WikiProject Open Access is concerned with the following:

1. starting and improving articles related to open access, as per this provisional list
2. flagging OA-ness of references cited in articles on any topic, by way of the citation template parametersor{{Open access}}
3. bringing Open-Access articles onto Wikisource
4. bringing materials from open-access publications onto Commons
5. supporting the reuse of such open-access-derived materials across Wikimedia projects

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Do you support open access? If you have even a small amount of time and no experience or background in open access, there are still ways that you can help! Please consider trying to do one of the below tasks. If you need help getting started contact one of the people listed in the members section of this page.

{{WikiProject Open Access | class= | importance= }}

to the top of the talk page, which yields this discussion template:

Open Access C‑class Top‑importance

Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task force is part of WikiProject Open Access, a collaborative attempt at improving the coverage of topics related to Open Access and at improving other articles with the help of materials from Open Access sources. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Open AccessWikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task forceTemplate:WikiProject Open AccessOpen access articles C This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. WikiProject Open Access to-do list: edit history watch purge Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Creative Commons licensing (to replace Creative Commons license); Creative Commons Attribution License (currently a redirect), reproducible research (currently a redirect), supplementary material. Scholarly Open Access (currently a redirect) Cleanup : Access2Research Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stub-Class Open access articles. Other : add {{WikiProject Open Access}}totalk pages of related articles, and assess; Check media files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer for missingorincomplete categorizationorlack of descriptions, or put the files into suitable Wikipedia articles. See also recent uploads of open-access files more generally.

Quality and importance

"Quality" refers to article quality and "importance" refers to how important an article is for developing this project. When a user tags an article with the above template and rates the article, then it will be included in this table after the bot runs (every three days).

Open access articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			1				1
B	2	8	5	6			21
C	7	16	15	29		7	74
Start	3	13	54	106		19	195
Stub		2	11	83		10	106
List			1	4		3	8
NA	1	2	4	3	371		381
Assessed	13	41	91	231	371	39	786
Unassessed		1					1
Total	13	42	91	231	371	39	787
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,972			Ω = 4.97

Articles to be split

• 23 Jun 2021 – Intellectual property (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 03 May 2024 – Draft:Thoth Open Metadata (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Amandasramalho (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Mir@bel (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC

Feel free to add yourself to this list to indicate interest in wiki-work related to open access, or interest in answering related questions. Please also consider subscribing to the mailing list dedicated to matters at the interface of Open Access and Wikimedia more generally. For latest activity within the scope of the project, see here.

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The three most common organizational systems on Wikipedia are navigational boxes, lists, and categories. Here are the organizational tools used by this project:

The {{Open access navbox}} navbox:

The {{Academic publishing}} navbox:

• WikiProject Open Access on Wikisource
• WikiProject Open Access on Wikidata
• WikiProject Source MetaData on Wikidata
• Wikipedia:Open Access (archived proposal)
• WikiProject Academic Journals
• WikiProject Libraries
• ORCID on Wikipedia, a page about the use of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID on Wikipedia
• OA Navbox, part of the Wikipedia Library WikiProject
• WikiProject Open, which covers openness more broadly, including open educational resources, etc.
• WikiProject Software/Free Software