Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-10 Thread Mayo FM
Hi! I agree with Melissa in promoting the use of open access journals. Plus, there is also the possibility to create solidarity for access between academics. In the sense that, if my University does not have access to a paper I need to complete an article, but another academic in Boston does, to

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 02:00 -0500, MZMcBride a écrit : Apologies for the slew of questions. I skimmed the FAQ, but didn't see any of these answered. I've added some of these questions to the FAQ page; I cherry-picked those that I thought would be really frequently asked, based on my

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-10 Thread \Mike .
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 01:05:59 +0300 From: Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: AANLkTingbZREF8n5A-yhjsh7+igUH3TSCMCjKtpRSE=c...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-10 Thread M. Williamson
2011/3/9 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: I have no objection to people using this list for announcements and QAs, but if people are wanting proper discussion then I strongly recommend sticking to English. I have no objection to people having discussions on this list in any language, and

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread KIZU Naoko
Thank you Guillaume, and all those who are in charge, please give a look to translators-l archives (if possible, join it)! There our volunteer translators are looking forward replies for more accurate translations. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:

[Foundation-l] get your cc project funded

2011-03-10 Thread phoebe ayers
Possibly of interest: Creative Commons is running a workshop in April on how to get a Creative Commons project funded. The course consists of a series of workshops and seminars that will take you through the steps from an initial idea to having a finished project proposal for submission, including

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread MZMcBride
Guillaume Paumier wrote: Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 02:00 -0500, MZMcBride a écrit : Apologies for the slew of questions. I skimmed the FAQ, but didn't see any of these answered. I've added some of these questions to the FAQ page; I cherry-picked those that I thought would be really frequently

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread Mani Pande
MzMcBride wrote: After having looked at the survey content, the survey software, and the survey format (particularly the length), I have very, very low confidence that anything of value will come from this (beyond lessons of what not to do next time). Based upon my experience having

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mani Pande mpa...@wikimedia.org wrote: MzMcBride wrote: After having looked at the survey content, the survey software, and the survey format (particularly the length), I have very, very low confidence that anything of value will come from this (beyond

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread Pronoein
Hello Keegan. I think this list is not about siding and throwing moqueries at each other. We should respect what each one believes. Le 11/03/2011 03:29, Keegan Peterzell a écrit : On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mani Pande mpa...@wikimedia.org wrote: MzMcBride wrote: After having looked

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: The pool of people who will click the banner is already fairly small. The people who will want to start a 20-minute survey is even smaller. When we did UNU-Merit which was a similar length, we got over 100,000 complete responses so your assessment that the pool is

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread David Gerard
On 11 March 2011 06:32, Pronoein prono...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Keegan. I think this list is not about siding and throwing moqueries at each other. We should respect what each one believes. To have an opinion respected,it helps if that opinion is not both (a) snide and (b) provably,

Re: [Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

2011-03-10 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Pronoein prono...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Keegan. I think this list is not about siding and throwing moqueries at each other. We should respect what each one believes. I wouldn't have called it a mockery myself, but it is a fair point and one that works in