The Wikipedia Library/OAWiki/Help

1. Register an account (Note: If you don't have a personal account, you should first create a personal account; on English Wikipedia you can't register as your organization.)
2. Check that the Visual Editor is turned on by ensuring "Temporarily disable the visual editor..." is unchecked in your preferences on your main language Wikipedia (here on the English Wikipedia). w:Wikipedia:Visual editor allows you to use a feature called "Citoid" which uses an API to get preformatted reference information (see the documentation for more details).
3. Whenever you check whether a citation is Open Access in Wikipedia, make sure to include the hashtag #OAWiki in the edit summary.

Note that instructions 1–2 default to English Wikipedia. Change the language to your preferred Wikipedia, though note that accounts are global.

In OABot

These instructions are for English Wikipedia; other Wikipedias have slightly different interfaces. Instructions for adding references in OABot are here .

1. A highlighted link will appear to a citation. You have the option of adding or skipping that link
2. To check if the link is OA, click on the link
3. If the link is OA, it will open in your browser to the cited material (or to a link to the cited material; if there is a link, be sure to click on that link as well to make sure it does NOT take you to a paywalled source). If it is NOT OA, it will open to a page requiring some kind of log in or membership and a paywall
4. If the link is OA, click "Add Link".
5. If the link is not OA, click skip
6. You can then refresh the page for a new link to check
7. Click save in the top right corner of the page
8. Add an edit summary of your change that includes the hashtag #OAWiki

• Adding a free to read |url=:
  • Before: Groussard, M.; Rauchs, G.; Landeau, B.; Viader, F.; Desgranges, B.; Eustache, F.; Platel, H. (2010). "The neural substrates of musical memory revealed by fMRI and two semantic tasks". NeuroImage 53: 1301–1309. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010年07月01日3.
  • After: Groussard, M.; Rauchs, G.; Landeau, B.; Viader, F.; Desgranges, B.; Eustache, F.; Platel, H. (2010). "The neural substrates of musical memory revealed by fMRI and two semantic tasks" (PDF). NeuroImage 53: 1301–1309. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010年07月01日3.

In Wikitext

1. Identify a reference in a Wikipedia article by clicking on the superscript number associated with the reference in the text
2. Click on the highlighted blue link, if it is present
3. Determine whether the source you are linked to is OA
4. Does the link open to the full source? If yes, it is highly likely this is an OA source
5. Does the source open to a page from a book or article or an abstract but not the full source? Check the page for a link to the full source (look for a pdf or html page link). If there is not a link to the full source, you will need to do an internet search for a link to that article. If there is a link to a full source, then this is probably an OA source. (see the dropdown in the image on the right)
6. Does the reference open to a paywall? If so, this is not OA.
7. Continue to the next reference in the document
8. Add an edit summary of your change that includes the hashtag #OAWiki
9. Click save below the edit summary box

• Reliable sources for Wikipedia include any source with a history of editorial control (newspapers, books, finding aids, scholarly journal articles, editorially controlled websites). The stronger the reputation or the greater the authority of the author on a topic, the more well received it will be.
• Though Wikipedia favors sources that are Open Access,^[1] it doesn't require them (after all, some knowledge can only be found in print books or behind paywalls). However, a reference to an open access source means that more public readers get a chance to find and read the research they need through Wikipedia. Wherever possible, we want to provide OA links.

• Visual Editor User Guide: Simple overview of the editing interface
• Introductory tutorial: Short review of the basics
• The Wikipedia Adventure: 1-hour interactive game teaching how to edit