Wikipedia:WikiProject United Nations/Open Access Descriptions

Create Wikipedia articles on the state of Open Access on many countries around the world using open license text from the UNESCO Global Open Access Portal descriptions. The table below have been created to organise and make it easier to create articles from the existing open license descirptions To create an article:

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Converting draft pages into Wikipedia articles

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Before saving the draft page for the first time

Remove personal information of individuals
Ensure the Open Access text Attribution is included, otherwise the text may be deleted as a copyright infringement

Formatting

Remove any bold text from the body of the document
Change section headings from being Subheadings to be Heading

Style

Remove personal information of individuals
The first sentence should include the name of the article in bold e.g Open access in Algeria is a recent movement, however, there has already been positive and steady feedback on it from variety of stakeholders; librarians, academics and researchers - all support and participate in the OA movement.
Remove words that do not specify a time period e.g currently
Remove non encyclopedic words like moreover
Change the section title Past and Future Open Access Related Activities to Open Access Related Activities
Add full names where acronyms are being used and add the acronym afterwards where it is available, links should be created for the full names and not the acronym. E.g MVSL is changed to Maghreb Virtual Science Library (MVSL)
Where a section simply consists of a list, add a sentence at the start to introduce the list. E.g for a list of key organisations add the sentence: There are a number of key organisations involved in Open access in NAMEOFCOUNTRY, these include:
Remove references to the future that are speculative

Links

Where the name of an organisation is used create a Wikipedia link to it, even if the article doesn't exist yet.
Change List of Publications heading to External links
Create links to the articles in the External links section
Only link to external sources in the External Links section

Referencing

Ensure the original document is referenced at the end of every paragraph (using the Re-use section of the citation tool).
Find other references for the subject and these to the article.

Regions

Africa

Country	Draft	Wikipedia article
Algeria	draft article	Open access in Algeria
Angola	draft article	Open access in Angola
Benin	draft article	Open access in Benin
Botswana	draft article	Open access in Botswana
Burkina Faso	draft article	Open access in Burkina Faso
Burundi	draft article	Open access in Burundi
Cameroon	draft article	Open access in Cameroon
Cape Verde	draft article	Open access in Cape Verde
Central African Republic	draft article	Open access in Central African Republic
Chad	draft article	Open access in Chad
Congo	draft article	Open access in Congo
Democratic Republic Of The Congo	draft article	Open access in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Egypt	draft article	Open access in Egypt
Eritrea	draft article	Open access in Eritrea
Ethiopia	draft article	Open access in Ethiopia
Gabon	draft article	Open access in Gabon
Gambia	draft article	Open access in Gambia
Ghana	draft article	Open access in Ghana
Ivory Coast (Côte D'Ivoire)	draft article	Open access in Côte d'Ivoire
Kenya	draft article	Open access in Kenya
Lesotho	draft article	Open access in Lesotho
Liberia	draft article	Open access in Liberia
Libya	draft article	Open access in Libya
Madagascar	draft article	Open access in Madagascar
Malawi	draft article	Open access in Malawi
Mali	draft article	Open access in Mali
Mauritius	draft article	Open access in Mauritius
Morocco	draft article	Open access in Morocco
Mozambique	draft article	Open access in Mozambique
Namibia	draft article	Open access in Namibia
Niger	draft article	Open access in Niger
Nigeria	draft article	Open access in Nigeria
Rwanda	draft article	Open access in Rwanda
Sao Tome And Principe	draft article	Open access in Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal	draft article	Open access in Senegal
Seychelles	draft article	Open access in Seychelles
Sierra Leone	draft article	Open access in Sierra Leone
South Africa	draft article	Open access in South Africa
Sudan	draft article	Open access in Sudan
Swaziland	draft article	Open access in Swaziland
Tanzania	draft article	Open access in Tanzania
Togo	draft article	Open access in Togo
Tunisia	draft article	Open access in Tunisia
Uganda	draft article	Open access in Uganda
Zambia	draft article	Open access in Zambia
Zimbabwe	draft article	Open access in Zimbabwe

Arab States

Country (with link to text)	Draft	Wikipedia article
Algeria	draft article	Open access in Algeria
Bahrain	draft article	Open access in Bahrain
Egypt	draft article	Open access in Egypt
Iraq	draft article	Open access in Iraq
Jordan	draft article	Open access in Jordan
Kuwait	draft article	Open access in Kuwait
Lebanon	draft article	Open access in Lebanon
Libya	draft article	Open access in Libya
Malta	draft article	Open access in Malta
Morocco	draft article	Open access in Morocco
Oman	draft article	Open access in Oman
Palestine, State Of	draft article	Open access in Palestine
Qatar	draft article	Open access in Qatar
Saudi Arabia	draft article	Open access in Saudi Arabia
Sudan	draft article	Open access in Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic	draft article	Open access in Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	draft article	Open access in Tunisia
United Arab Emirates	draft article	Open access in United Arab Emirates
Yemen	draft article	Open access in Yemen

Asia and the Pacific

Country (with link to text)	Draft	Wikipedia article
Afghanistan	draft article	Open access in Afghanistan
Australia	draft article	Open access in Australia
Bangladesh	draft article	Open access in Bangladesh
Bhutan	draft article	Open access in Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam	draft article	Open access in Brunei
Cambodia	draft article	Open access in Cambodia
China	draft article	Open access in China
India	draft article	Open access in India
Indonesia	draft article	Open access in Indonesia
Islamic Republic Of Iran	draft article	Open access in Iran
Japan	draft article	Open access in Japan
Kazakhstan	draft article	Open access in Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan	draft article	Open access in Kyrgyzstan
Malaysia	draft article	Open access in Malaysia
Maldives	draft article	Open access in Maldives
Mongolia	draft article	Open access in Mongolia
Myanmar	draft article	Open access in Myanmar
Nepal	draft article	Open access in Nepal
New Zealand	draft article	Open access in New Zealand
Pakistan	draft article	Open access in Pakistan
Republic Of Korea	draft article	Open access in Republic of Korea
Russian Federation	draft article	Open access in Russia
Singapore	draft article	Open access in Singapore
Sri Lanka	draft article	Open access in Sri Lanka
Tajikistan	draft article	Open access in Tajikistan
Thailand	draft article	Open access in Thailand
Uzbekistan	draft article	Open access in Uzbekistan
Vietnam	draft article	Open access in Vietnam

Europe and North America

Country (with link to text)	Draft	Wikipedia article
Albania	draft article	Open access in Albania
Andorra	draft article	Open access in Andorra
Armenia	draft article	Open access in Armenia
Austria	draft article	Open access in Austria
Azerbaijan	draft article	Open access in Azerbaijan
Belarus	draft article	Open access in Belarus
Belgium	draft article	Open access in Belgium
Bosnia And Herzegovina	draft article	Open access in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria	draft article	Open access in Bulgaria
Canada	draft article	Open access in Canada
Croatia	draft article	Open access in Croatia
Cyprus	draft article	Open access in Cyprus
Czech Republic	draft article	Open access in Czech Republic
Denmark	draft article	Open access in Denmark
Estonia	draft article	Open access in Estonia
Finland	draft article	Open access in Finland
France	draft article	Open access in France
Georgia	draft article	Open access in Georgia
Germany	draft article	Open access in Germany
Greece	draft article	Open access in Greece
Hungary	draft article	Open access in Hungary
Iceland	draft article	Open access in Iceland
Ireland	draft article	Open access in Ireland
Israel	draft article	Open access in Israel
Italy	draft article	Open access in Italy
Kazakhstan	draft article	Open access in Kazakhstan
Latvia	draft article	Open access in Latvia
Lithuania	draft article	Open access in Lithuania
Luxembourg	draft article	Open access in Luxembourg
Malta	draft article	Open access in Malta
Monaco	draft article	Open access in Monaco
Montenegro	draft article	Open access in Montenegro
Netherlands	draft article	Open access in the Netherlands
Norway	draft article	Open access in Norway
Poland	draft article	Open access in Poland
Portugal	draft article	Open access in Portugal
The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia	draft article	Open access in Macedonia
Republic Of Moldova	draft article	Open access in Republic of Moldova
Romania	draft article	Open access in Romania
Russian Federation	draft article	Open access in Russia
San Marino	draft article	Open access in San Marino
Serbia	draft article	Open access in Serbia
Slovakia	draft article	Open access in Slovakia
Slovenia	draft article	Open access in Slovenia
Spain	draft article	Open access in Spain
Sweden	draft article	Open access in Sweden
Switzerland	draft article	Open access in Switzerland
Turkey	draft article	Open access in Turkey
Ukraine	draft article	Open access in Ukraine
United Kingdom	draft article	Open access in United Kingdom
United States Of America	draft article	Open access in the United States of America

Latin America and the Caribbean

Country (with link to text)	Draft	Wikipedia article
Argentina	draft article	Open access in Argentina
Bolivia	draft article	Open access in Bolivia
Brazil	draft article	Open access in Brazil
Caribbean Countries	draft article	Open access in Caribbean Countries
Chile	draft article	Open access in Chile
Colombia	draft article	Open access in Colombia
Costa Rica	draft article	Open access in Costa Rica
Cuba	draft article	Open access in Cuba
Dominican Republic	draft article	Open access in Dominican Republic
Ecuador	draft article	Open access in Ecuador
El Salvador	draft article	Open access in El Salvador
Guatemala	draft article	Open access in Guatemala
Haiti, Republic Of	draft article	Open access in Haiti
Honduras	draft article	Open access in Honduras
Mexico	draft article	Open access in Mexico
Nicaragua	draft article	Open access in Nicaragua
Panama	draft article	Open access in Panama
Paraguay	draft article	Open access in Paraguay
Peru	draft article	Open access in Peru
Puerto Rico	draft article	Open access in Puerto Rico
Uruguay	draft article	Open access in Uruguay
Venezuela	draft article	Open access in Venezuela