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Open Access Media Importer: Page Templates, Automatic Import

Posted on September 11, 2012 by nilsdagssonmoskopp

Since the last post, most work was done on page templates for uploaded media files. Page names are now based on article titles and both the database and pages created by the Open Access Media Importer now contain articles’ DOIs. … Continue reading →

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Open Access Media Importer: Plugging in your own data source

Posted on March 29, 2012 by nilsdagssonmoskopp

From the beginning, the Open Access Media Importer was intended to be modular. Only with the latest patches that feature has actually landed, as a result of decoupling interface and actual application logic: Data sources are now Python modules that … Continue reading →

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Open Access Media Importer: Apology, frontend & usage

Posted on March 10, 2012 by nilsdagssonmoskopp

More than a month ago, I promised to blog about my quest to build the Open Access Media Importer for Wikimedia Commons about once a week. Obviously, I failed. In the first few weeks, I was stuck, not having any … Continue reading →

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Project Introduction: Open Access Media Importer for Wikimedia Commons

Posted on January 18, 2012 by nilsdagssonmoskopp

Open Access scientific literature contains, almost by definition, content suitable – both in substance and licensing – for Wikimedia Commons. However, currently, there seems to be no automated, easy way to identify such files, convert them into appropriate formats and … Continue reading →

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