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This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue IX, September 2013

Open Access report

Thanks, OKCon, featured content, stats and a final

Drama-based education. A token of appreciation for all those who have contributed to uploads by the Open Access Media Importer, e.g. by fixing conversion or thumbnail errors, adding descriptions or refining the categorization.

OKCon

From September 16-18, the Open Knowledge Conference 2013 (OKCon) took place in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring talks, sessions, demos and workshops around all things Open. This included a workshop on OpenGLAM (see Switzerland report) and several on open science, one of which was dedicated to editing the English Wikipedia's entry on the topic as well as its French counterpart.

Featured content

The spider Cupiennius salei - Did you know on the English Wikipedia on September 25.
The snail Zospeum tholussum - Did you know on the Swedish Wikipedia on September 22.
Two guitarists improvising, with their EEG recordings shown. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on September 21.
Spontaneous ejaculation in a wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on September 12.

Stats

In early October, GLAMorous reported for the Commons category Open access (publishing) that it had 21396 files, of which 5769 are used a total of 65068 times across 297 Wikimedia projects.

For this category, the latest BaGLAMa stats are available for August and indicate 30,606,315 views of 56,439 mainspace pages that were using materials from the category across 207 Wikimedia projects. About half of these views are due to files that have been featured as Open Access File of the Day, and a bit under 10% due to files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.

Open Access Media Importer

The following represents a selection of the 446 files files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total to over 14,000. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know. On October 1, the bot has been named one of six finalists in the Accelerating Science Awards Program. More on that will follow in the October report.

Open Access File of the Day

The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day this month:

September 30: Squalius janae.
September 29: A Common basilisk running on water.
September 28: Cuora amboinensis, an Asian box turtle
September 27: cladogram depicting evolution of cetaceans
September 26: The nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis.
September 25: a stain indicating HFE hereditary haemochromatosis
September 24: Abacoleptus carinatus, an Adephaga beetle
September 23: finger displaying systemic scleroderma
September 22: Boiga philippina.
September 21: Nasals of Einiosaurus procurvicornis.
September 20: Opisthorchis viverrini, a liver fluke
September 19: visualization of Alström syndrome
September 18: Reconstruction of a Rubeosaurus.
September 17: Ridleyandra chuana, a flower of the family Gesneriaceae
September 16: relations of genes and the DISC1 protein
September 15: larvae of the moth Dunama indereci
September 14: Koala bellowing at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
September 13: Elimia showalteri.
September 12: Icterus jamacaii.
September 11: Nomius pygmaeus.
September 10: cover of 2006 issue of PLOS Medicine talking about disease mongering
September 9: MRI of a pulmonary contusion.
September 8: Nigersaurus skeleton
September 7: MRI scan of a patient with Gliomatosis cerebri.
September 6: Apatura metis.
September 5: phylogenetic tree for major urinary proteins
September 4: a typical mouse and a muscular mouse after gene doping
September 3: Macrovipera lebetina.
September 2: MRI scan of a patient with chordoma.
September 1: eye tracking while driving