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The Journal Cited by Wikipedia compilation now reports whether journals are open accessible, and whether publishers publish open access journals. The feature is fresh, so tweaks are likely to happen, but what is currently there is very functional. Essentially, JL-Bot looks at various categories present on an article an determines as best it can if a journal/publisher can be classified according to the table below:
| Open | : | Open access publisher/publication. This includes CC-licensed journals, Diamond open access, Gold open access, etc. |
| S2Open | : | Subscribe to Open publisher/publication |
| Delayed | : | Delayed open access publisher/publication |
| Hybrid | : | Hybrid open-access journal publisher/publication |
| Closed | : | Closed access publisher/publication |
| Unflagged | : | Bot finds no information. For publishers, this likely means the publisher does not have a consistent open access publishing policy, and thus cannot be categorised. Or it could be that no one bothered to check. |
An example of where this can be seen in action is Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Target1. The table is sortable, so you can easily browse targets by open-access categories.
In light of this more-easily findable information about which journals/publishers are openly accessible, a parallel effort to tag citations with |doi-access= was happening. In August 2026, there were about 27.99% of DOIs that were tagged as free to read. This percentage has remained relatively constant, in the 27% range, never reaching 28%, since the compilation started tracking |doi-access=free usage (see chart on the right). This month, usage increased by a massive 1.25% to reach 29.24%. – H
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A new extension has been enabled on Commons allowing users to easily create and modify charts from a dataset. On pages in the Data namespace whose name ends with .chart, a new Edit with form mode can be selected from the top right of the page. This will bring up a menu, allowing editors to select a data source, the chart type, display title and other associated characteristics. Users will also be able to see a live preview of their chart as well as the generated code. – M
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