That's an interesting idea for how to promote such a milestone on social media. I'm not quite sure why Wikimedia feeds should be used for that purpose though - how does it further our mission?
(To clarify for others, the database being celebrated is not about Open Access per se, and as far as I know it's in fact proprietary itself - i.e. not free knowledge. Interestingly, a main motivation for the DOI standard - of which Crossref's database is probably the most important application - was to enhance copyright protection on the Internet and facilitate paywalls: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0003.204?view=text;rgn=main ) On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Alex Stinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey All, > > If you haven't been following both the Wikipedia LIbrary and Wikiemdia > Research have been working actively with Crossref to improve Wikipedia > citations and to reach out to the publishers and OA communities in their > network. > > They recently reached 80,000,000 records in their database, and are trying > to find other instances of other instances of 80,000,000 in response to > their tweet and using the hashtag at > https://twitter.com/crossreforg/status/718352010291113984 . We responded for > TWL at https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/718488294028353537 . It would > be great if we shared from Wikimedia accounts instances of 80,000,000 on our > projects. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
