Liam Wyatt wrote: > On 2 February 2012 00:31, Daniel Mietchen > <daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> I think that skipping non-OA sources is not a valid option, though >> encouragement of the use of relevant OA sources is. >> >> One way to achieve that could be by highlighting the "OA-ness" of >> cited references, as is now common practice in the Research section of >> the Signpost (most recent example: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-30/Recent_ >> research#References >> ). >> >> So far, this flagging is done manually, but at least for publishers >> that use the same Creative Commons license for all the articles they >> publish, it would be easy to modify citation templates like >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal to include the OA >> icon for all DOIs belonging to the prefixes listed at >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Open_Knowledge_Foundation_Germany >> /Open_Access_Catalogue/OA_publishers/DOI_prefixes_entirely_OA >> . Things get a bit more complicated on the journal level, especially >> in the case of hybrid OA journals, in which some articles are OA, >> others not, and even the OA ones may be under different licenses. >> >> <snip> > > THIS! > > I agree with what was said before that it would be technically (and > intellectually) difficulty to boycott links to particular sources from > Wikipedias. I think it would be fantastic if we could *promote* Open Access > sources in our references - see Daniel's link to the Signpost (above) for a > good example. If we could overcome some technical difficulties (Daniel > describes some above). This would be a positive action to support OA rather > than a punitive action against other less open (but still legal) publishers > of Reliable Sources. It would also help promote the idea of OA sources in > the general public. > Ideally this could be done automatically by compiling a list of "OA > compliant" sources and automatically adding in the OA icon to a footnote > whenever the relevant citation code is called.
Feature requests go in Bugzilla: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>. :-) It's fairly easy to recognize URLs by protocol (MediaWiki already does it to spot mailto: links and irc: links and add pretty icons). Comparing against a list that's maintained in the MediaWiki namespace probably wouldn't be very difficult. It'd go in an extension, I guess. Extensions are nice for something like this because they can be deployed across all Wikimedia wikis easily. It might even make sense to have a global journals list at Meta-Wiki. Don't know how often these resources are cited cross-language, though. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
