Thanks, Yana. It turned out great! Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Yana Welinder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The post is now live on the EFF blog: > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/free-open-access-and-wikipedia > > We will cross-post it to the Wikimedia blog shortly and I think that > Stanford CIS may cross-post it on theirs. > > Thanks so much for all your input and help with this! > > Best, > Yana > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Daniel Mietchen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Yana, >> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Yana Welinder <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Quick question about this comment: >> > >> >> 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. >> > >> > >> > Were the articles in the subset written by scholars on Wikipedia and >> then >> > published in a peer-review journal like the article on Dengue fever? Or >> did >> > the scholars publish scholarship in a peer-reviewed open access journal >> in >> > order for the papers to be incorporated in Wikipedia articles? I think >> it is >> > the former, but just wanted to make sure that I got it right. >> It's more of the latter - the articles are actually drafted and >> reviewed on a separate MediaWiki instance (e.g. >> >> http://topicpages.ploscompbiol.org/wiki/Multi-state_modeling_of_biomolecules >> ), then published in the journal, then on Wikipedia. For more details >> on that, see >> >> http://wikiambassador.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/03/28/publishing-scholarly-wikipedia/ >> . >> >> When precisely do you intend to post the piece? We're working on a video >> about >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness >> that should be ready in the next few days and may be a good fit for your >> post. >> >> d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenAccess mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess >> > > > > -- > Yana Welinder > Legal Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 > @yanatweets <https://twitter.com/yanatweets> > > NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you > have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the > mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical > reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community > members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more > on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAccess mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess > >
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