User:Open Access Media Importer Bot
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This user account is a bot operated by Daniel Mietchen (talk). It is part of the Open Access Media Importer that crawls scholarly publication databases (starting with PubMed Central) for supplementary audio and video materials and uploads them (35766 files so far) to Wikimedia Commons if they are available under licenses compatible with such reuse. The code is reusably licensed and can be found on GitHub.
It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
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Overview edit
- Some background as well as the basic features of the bot are described in these two blog posts.
- Original proposal (in German, with English summary)
- Initially funded by Wikimedia Deutschland as part of the Wissenswert 2011 initiative
- Random file uploaded by the bot
- Ongoing expansion to full-text import
Details edit
- Bot request
- Operator: Daniel Mietchen
- Tasks: upload multimedia files from suitably licensed scholarly articles (gallery; usage, view stats)
- Home category: Category:Uploaded with Open Access Media Importer (Related changes)
- Mode: run automatically
- Time of operation: continuously
- Maximum edit rate: 6 edits per minute
- Code: https://github.com/wpoa/open-access-media-importer
- Language: Python
Technical notes edit
- The delay between publication of an article and it being indexed in PubMed Central varies between a few days and a few months (not counting embargoes, which do not apply to Wikimedia-compatibly licensed content anyway), sometimes even years (e.g. for back issues of newly indexed journals).
- Most articles indexed in PubMed Central are not in the Open Access Subset. For an idea how many articles are indexed in the Open Access Subset on a given day, see the data for April 1.
- Most articles in the Open Access Subset are not licensed compatibly with reuse on Wikimedia Commons.
- Only a small minority of the suitably licensed articles in the Open Access Subset have audio or video files associated with them.
- The delay between a suitably licensed article being indexed in the Open Access Subset and its video and audio materials being uploaded here is typically days to weeks, but can in rare cases be hours or years.
- The usefulness and completeness of the information used for file conversion, descriptions and categories varies by publisher, journal, article and file. Some more details here.
Related publications edit
- Beck J, Chodacki J, Eaton A, Evans M, Gatti R, Gilbert J, Harrison M, Maloney C, Mietchen D, Mowlam T; JATS4R Working Group (2015) Improving the reusability of JATS. In: Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) Proceedings 2015.
- Mietchen, D.; Maloney, C.; and Moskopp, N. D. (2013) Inconsistent XML as a Barrier to Reuse of Open Access Content. In: Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) Proceedings 2013.
Accelerating Science Award edit
The bot is one of three winners of the inaugural Accelerating Science Awards aimed at highlighting the value of reusing scientific information. For further information, see
Uploads edit
Popular edit
A selection of uploads that are being used on multiple and/ or popular pages across Wikimedia projects.
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Most recent edit
The 50 most recent uploads are embedded below. See here for 500 most recent uploads and here for all contributions or here for a random file uploaded by the bot.