Teemu, As a followup:
We would love to be more aligned with Open Access publishers, but at this point, we have yet to find a demonstrably *repeatable* and *scalable* model of programming which we could promote to the entire movement and the Open Access community. When OA publishers already set the standard for Open knowledge, its less clear where to intervene (whereas, supporting GLAM, EDU, STEM and TWL outreach are about unlocking hard to find or closed access material for our community to take advantage of). We do have a relationship with PLOS at WMF: - We have been including contacts within PLOS on a collaboration to improve the Wikimedia ecosystem for citations and research, including looking at structured data in Wikimedia citations (something we are beginning to explore with Wikimedia Research, WikiProject X, WikiProject Source Metadata, WMDE, CrossRef and others). You should hear more about this in the next 4-6 months, as it becomes actual collaboration among these groups. - We are also reaching out to PLOS to participate in Dark Traffic Research: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy and they are further connected to us via our relationship with CrossRef. - We have had several calls with the PLOS partnerships team as The Wikipedia Library, and have seen a bit of stalled trying to figure out how both our community and theirs could benefit from a partnership more extensive than a WIR or volunteer led content drive, programatically -- and those kinds of individual leadership roles are outside what we develop at the WMF (see our criteria for new projects in Program Capacity and Learning: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Capacity_and_Learning) . So the question is: what are the best ways to collaborate with Open Access publishers? And who can lead in these initiatives? We would be happy to mentor any volunteers or affiliates who want to develop these program models on behalf of the movement. If you have ideas, we would encourage sharing them with WikiProject Open Access (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access), or on IdeaLab (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab). Cheers, Alex Stinson > > On 15.2.2016, at 18.07, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apart from brand affiliation, what do you see as a potential benefit from > > partnering with PLoS? > > I think brand affiliation would be a good start and could help PLoS, that > is not so well known as the Wikipedia. > > I wouldn’t be agains giving PLoS some financially supported, too, because > they are like-minded non-profit organization with very similar mission as > we have (and I am saying this without knowing anything about their > financial situation). > > - Teemu > -------------------------------------------------- > Teemu Leinonen > http://teemuleinonen.fi > +358 50 351 6796 > Media Lab > http://mlab.uiah.fi > Aalto University > School of Arts, Design and Architecture > -------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
