User:Pintoch/accessibility of sources

Here is a simple experiment to evaluate the access level of url in cite journal templates.

It uses a parsed dump of the CS1 templates found on the English Wikipedia. (The parsed representation is the internal representation of the citation in the Lua code that generates structured metadata out of citation templates).

Once you have these templates, manually check whether you can access the full text from the URL given. I classified the results in 3 categories:
 * open: full text available, in a few clicks on the same website: 59
 * closed: subscription or registration required: 25
 * broken: the link no longer leads to the designated resource: 16

The full classification for my 100 samples can be found here:.

Note that many of the open links are using cite journal but should rather use another template such as cite news or cite magazine given the source they refer to (cite journal is designed for "academic and scientific papers and journals").