Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task force - Wikipedia

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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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 parameters or {{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.

Articles to be split

• 18 Sep 2024 – Acta Crystallographica (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by TheBigPikachu (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Jun 2021 – Intellectual property (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 03 Oct 2024 – Draft:Virtual and Physical Prototyping (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Research-wiki-content (t · c)
• 10 Sep 2024 – Draft:Jeffrey Yoo Warren (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BriC510 (t · c)
• 06 Sep 2024 – Draft:Claude Ake Visiting Chair (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hankydoodle (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Mir@bel (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was accepted to Mir@bel (talk · edit · hist) by SafariScribe (t · c) on 28 Sep 2024

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.