GLAM/Newsletter/April 2013/Contents/Open Access report
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Featured content; Wikimania sessions
Pictures featured both ways between Wikimedia Commons and OA journals
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From Commons to OA:
Pachypodium rosulatum. -
From OA to Commons:
Cicindela marginata.
On April 24, the frontpage of the journal PeerJ displayed an image of the flower Pachypodium rosulatum in order to highlight a new article that had been published on the species. This image - by User:Daderot - had been available from Wikimedia Commons since 2009. An attribution would have been nice, but since Daderot had placed the file into the Public Domain, that is OK.
Two days earlier, a photograph of the tiger beetle Cicindela marginata had achieved Featured picture status on Commons (nomination). The image had originally been published in an article by Yves Bousquet in ZooKeys. It is the fourth file from an Open Access source to be featured on Commons, and the first since 2009. Further potential candidates that meet the technical requirements are listed here.
At least three previous Featured picture candidates from Open Access sources had not been promoted:
Open Access materials on the Dutch Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia is the fifth one to use files from the Commons category Open access (publishing) more than 1000 times. The German and French Wikipedias as well as Wikispecies had reached that milestone earlier this year, whereas the English and Vietnamese ones had passed it long ago, mostly due to their heavy use of stub templates, many of which contain images, including some from Open Access sources.
WikiProject Open Access membership
Six new members have registered with WikiProject Open Access in April - more than in any previous month. In total, the project had 38 members by the end of the month, handling 325 pages altogether.
Wikimania submissions
The submissions for Wikimania 2013 include three that are directly relevant to Open Access: a panel on Open Access & Wikipedia as well as presentations on Wikimedia and Open Access (broader in scope than the panel) and on the Open Access Media Importer.
Open Access Media Importer
Plugin for images
In its current version, the bot uploads only audio and video files. There are many more image files in Open Access articles, and a good number - but by far not all - appear to be usable in Wikimedia projects, so a variant that allows an automated upload of selected images to Commons is currently being discussed.
Categorization
So far, a few hundred files uploaded and pre-categorized by the bot have undergone a review of the categorization. Thousands are still waiting for this treatment. Conversely, on the order of 2000 categories have been created to accommodate files uploaded by the bot, with a few hundred still to be done.
Gallery
The following represents a selection of the 279 files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total over 11,000. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.
Open Access File of the Day
The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day this month:
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April 30: Granular corneal dystrophy, a condition caused by a genetic disorder -
April 29: The microbiologist and Nobel laurate Hamilton Othanel Smith. -
April 28: eggs of Pomacea haustrum -
April 27: size of four Geosaurini present during the Kimmeridgian -
April 26: optical flow experienced by a rotating observer -
April 25: The soft coral Briareum violacea. -
April 24: PET scan of a patient with nasopharyngeal cancer -
April 23: lifecycle of Haliclystus antarcticus -
April 22: predicted habitat suitability for the Illacme plenipes millipede. -
April 21: The sea snail Terebra taurina. -
April 20: a model for the early olfaction system -
April 19: The blenny Helcogramma rhinoceros. -
April 18: skeleton of the prehistoric Nimbadon lavarackorum -
April 17: Cucujus haematodes habitus. -
April 16: The polychaete Notopygos ornata. -
April 15: Aquaporin Z, a protein -
April 14: An Erebia sudetica butterfly. -
April 13: An ass's ear abalone, Haliotis asinina. -
April 12: calling song of Magicicada cassini
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April 11: Bornella stellifer, a nudibranch in family Bornellidae -
April 10: A Bradypodion gutturale chameleon. -
April 9: The beetle Notiophilus aquaticus. -
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April 7: Shrimp Alpheus with parasite Cryptoniscidae attached -
April 6: CT scan of lung showing Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency -
April 5: schematic for a brain-computer interface -
April 4: Enyalioides azulae, a member of the lizard family Hoplocercidae. -
April 3: The blenny Helcogramma inclinata. -
April 2: A mandible of the fossil giraffe Mitilanotherium inexpectatum. -
April 1: A male Aptostichus angelinajolieae spider.
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