As one of Leeds' Research Data Managers said recently, "like dogs and
Christmas #openaccess is for ever not just for global crisis!"
<https://twitter.com/mrnick/status/1247828250224721920>
In the long term, Wikimedia should have a role in emphasising the value of
sharing information so the temporary availability may become permanent.
For now, I've set up a kind of watchlist
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&target=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_COVID-19%2FWMUK-WPME%2FWatchAllDF_Joint_Support_Task_Force&limit=50&days=7&urlversion=2>
showing changes to all the articles categorised as relating to the pandemic
except for the top level ones which have a lot of eyes on them already.
If people on this list have a few minutes, I'd appreciate your thoughts on
how practical the watchlist is either here or on the task force's talk page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_COVID-19/WMUK-WPMEDF_Joint_Support_Task_Force#Watchlist>
.
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 17:06, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 09 April 2020 at 18:00 Richard Nevell <richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
If anybody needs familiarity with the sourcing standards for medical
articles, take a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medic… -
although most of the content will only need to meet the usual standards for
sourcing that you're used to.
*Richard Nevell, on behalf of Wikimedia UK*
*Doug Taylor, on behalf of Wikimedia Medicine*
Yes, that's an important point in practice.
The extraordinary times Covid-19 has brought with it have seen the major
medical journal publishers react. This Twitter thread is very helpful with
the open access aspects of the huge volume of publications:
https://twitter.com/MsPhelps/status/1249662402255298560
Temporarily, much more of the literature is going to be available to read,
on the PubMed Central repository, than would usually be the case. The
actual details of all that could be the basis of a crash course on open
access. And why it matters.
The bibliographical situation that is emerging is scary, really. Let's
note that Wikidata can help cope: by holding details on papers, and data
giving an idea of the reliability of journals. By capturing Creative
Commons license information. By allowing us to add topical information. And
with queries that are quite intuitive, supporting use and maintenance of
the data.
Charles
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