There are several ways in which the OA and Wikimedia communities could interact. Let me just give seven:
- Improving Wikipedia articles related to OA. A list of such topics for the English Wikipedia sits at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/OA/Catalogue. There are Wikipedias in over 200 languages, and all of them could do with improvements in this area.
- Reusing OA materials in articles at Wikipedia and its sister projects. Examples of such reuse are given at http://species-id.net/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/Open-Access-T....
- Wikimedia Commons has a Picture of the Day competition at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_day. There is also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_of_the_day and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_year. For all of these, materials from suitably licensed OA sources are eligible (Wikimedia uses a CC BY-SA license, so materials licensed with -NC or -ND clauses are ineligible), and there is no principle problem with having an "OA image of the day" along those lines.
- Similarly, there is a "Did You Know" project that features interesting bits of information on the Homepage of the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know. Why not try to highlight some bits of OA this way?
- The Wikimedia Foundation has drafted an OA and open data policy, which could benefit from feedback from the OA community: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest....
- Some journals have teamed up with Wikipedia or are considering to do so: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signp.... Others are invited to join these experiments.
- If there are suitably licensed materials from OA activities beyond publishing and self-archiving (e.g. from OA Week), they may well find a home at Wikimedia Commons too. An example is at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_research.ogg.
I am currently running a project that tries to facilitate all of these interactions ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_Residence_on_Open_Science ), so I am very interested in anyone trying any of the above, and if you run into problems while doing so, I am prepared to help.
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