Edinburgh Napier University

  The Wikipedia community has been involved in open access for a long time so it is fitting that the Wikimedia Foundation has now implemented an open access policy. This talk will discuss the links between open access and Wikipedia, and discuss the history of the interaction between the two communities. Projects in the area range from tools to get more open access content into Wikimedia, such as the Open Access Media Importer, to infrastructure projects designed to improve citation data. Open access shares many of the goals and ideals that drive Wikipedians to share their knowledge with the world, and having access to open access resources is vital for those who contribute to the encyclopedia. This talk will examine in detail some of the specific projects going on at the moment and show how they support the long-term goals of creating a knowledge commons.