A true "flaw to address more decisively" is the unwarranted assumption that a multitude of authors', researchers', funders', and publishers' complex choices of a CC BY-NC license (rather than a supposedly always superior CC-BY license) or any other license is any impediment whatsoever to Wikipedia's simple core content policies of verifiability, neutral point of view, and no original research. Granted, Wikidata unilaterally changed CC-BY to CC-00, but that unauthorized maneuver itself may at least partially explain the perceived shift to more nuanced content licensing. .

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
This is the OA we like at Wikimedia: CC-BY everywhere!

I wonder why the uptick in CC BY-NC articles since 2016, though. That's a flaw to address more decisively.

Federico

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Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] OASPA members demonstrate another year of steady growth in CC BY articles for fully-OA journals
Data: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:02:53 +0100
Mittente: Leyla Williams

Dear all,

We are pleased to report that once again, the recent data OASPA has
collected on articles published with the CC BY license in open access-only
(fully-OA) journals by members of OASPA shows that, for OASPA members,
year-on-year growth remains steady for CC BY articles in fully-OA
peer-reviewed journals. A total of 1,128,721 articles were published with
the CC BY license in open access-only (fully-OA) journals by members of
OASPA during the period 2000-2017, with 219,627 of those being published in
2017 alone.

We are also pleased to report on the growth of the Directory of Open Access
Books (DOAB), which now includes over 10,000 titles.

Our full data and analysis can be found here:
https://oaspa.org/oaspa-members-ccby-growth-2017-data/

Best wishes,
Leyla
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Leyla Williams
Events and Communications Coordinator
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA
oaspa.org | Twitter: @OASPA <https://twitter.com/OASPA>

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