2011/7/18 Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> > On 07/09/11 2:06 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > My point (working in an academic digital library and just seeing the > > amount > > of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a > > difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional > > repository (5 minutes of their time, even less), how can we > wikilibrarians > > think that they will come to us and upload and "curate" their text? I > > clearly remeber the "Screw it" feeling I had the day after I graduated, > > meaning that I would not even touch my thesis again for the next months > (and > > so it was). > > > If 5 more minutes of an author's time is too much for uploading a thesis > that he has worked in for months or years that's his problem. He could > even pay someone to upload for him. It suggests he doesn't have much > faith in his own work. It's not our job to hold his hand. >
I agree that 5 minutes are an acceptable time: what I wanted to say (probably my English is worse than what I think :-) is that "curation" of a thesis on Wikisource doesn't take 5 minutes, but even 5 hours. 5 hours and a lot of knowledge in Wikisource policies, mediawiki, templates and so on. I perfectly know that having your own thesis in wikitext on Wikisource is a good thing, but I don't honestly know if it is worth the labor. Aubrey > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
