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Merger proposal of WikiProject Open Access into WikiProject Open

There is significant overlap between WikiProject Open and WikiProject Open Access. In fact, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Open Access has been redirecting to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Open (this page) since December 2013.

Combining these two relatively inactive projects would hopefully form a more active project, and would be consistent with how the talk page has been shared between the two projects for the past 6.5 years. As the scope of WikiProject Open Access (open access publishing) is a subset of the scope of WikiProject Open, the most appropriate merge target is WikiProject Open. — Newslinger talk 06:41, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Mbdfar (talk) 04:49, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as Task Force. Given the different levels of scope the WikiProject Open Access and WikiProject Open I don't agree that Open Access should be absorbed by WikiProject Open as that would lead to a loss of resolution of scope, but WikiProject Open Access does seem to be a natural fit to be merged as a Task Force of WikiProject Open. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 22:03, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds like a good solution. If there are no objections, I'll proceed with converting WikiProject Open Access into a task force in a week. — Newslinger talk 06:16, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Open Access has been moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task force. — Newslinger talk 08:47, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is quite a lot of tweaking to do whatever it is - see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:WikiProject_Open_articles - inactive - and if open source is going to be a task force it has much better structure for assessment that the current open format - well worth doing something to clean things up... JarrahTree 15:34, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is a lot of cleanup work to be done, and any help would be appreciated! I'll gradually address issues as I find them, but I expect this to be a long-term task. — Newslinger talk 18:44, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

and for whatever intuition I have on the issue - the mix is the wrong way around - I would have done it the other way - for very complicated reasons no need to explain here - but there are so few discussing any of this it is as bizarre as intelligence being absorbed into espionage - but hey this is wikipedia - so be it. JarrahTree 02:25, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Focus list for OA

Hello. Here is a provisional focus list in Wikidata for the Open Access Task Force. Additions/changes welcome.

TABernacle
WDQS (Wikidata query)

-- Oa01 (talk) 10:06, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frontiers Media request

Hello, I have suggested updates to Frontiers Media's list of journals (open access scientific journals) at Talk:Frontiers_Media#List_of_journals. Do any editors at this WikiProject care to vet these potential updates? I do not edit the article myself because I am an employee at Frontiers Media.

Best, JBFrontiers (talk) 09:24, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]