Re: [Wikimedia-l] Early thoughts regarding a global code of conduct and a GCC committee

2020-04-20 Thread Gnangarra
Kaya When we look at number we to interpret them in ways that the numbers themselves don't. Think about this 40% that think the the policies need 'quite a bit of improvement' but that doesnt tell us if it because the policy failed to protect them. More importantly it also doesn't say if was the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Jake Orlowitz
Thanks Tito, Pete and Shani... There is a formal comment period open until May 6. The U.S. government is accepting letters or briefs from any individual or organization. I've shared my own in the hopes others will do something similar. If it hasn't already, the Wikimedia Foundation's Research

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiSeder and four drinks to free knowledge

2020-04-20 Thread Pharos
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Geert Van Pamel
Perfect statement: only one correction: you need to negate the following phrase... And, if they are *un*able to read and cite it... If every country would vote an equivalent law for Free Knowledge, the world would become a better place to live... -- Geert Van Pamel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread James Heilman
We within the Wikimedia movement have a open access journal without any publication fees. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group There are also other platinum open access publishers. James On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:52 PM Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > As an actively publishing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
As an actively publishing researcher, I just know that mandating open access publishing would mean that the author pays the (huge) publication fee rather than the library pays the subscription. In an ideal world, the universities would refund the fees, and will get subsidy from the governments, In

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Shani Evenstein
Jake, well written and nicely put. Is this online somewhere, where we can share it further? Best, Shani. --- *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Pete Forsyth
Jake, How can we most effectively support your excellent effort with this? -Pete -- Pete Forsyth User:Peteforsyth on Meta, English Wikisource, English Wikipedia, etc. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:22 PM Tito Dutta wrote: > Hello, > Very well-written and well-supported by statistics. Thanks for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Tito Dutta
Hello, Very well-written and well-supported by statistics. Thanks for sharing. Regards. User:Titodutta On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:41 AM Jake Orlowitz wrote: > My Letter to the U.S. Office for Science and Technology Policy regarding a > proposal for federally mandate open access to publicly-funded

[Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Jake Orlowitz
My Letter to the U.S. Office for Science and Technology Policy regarding a proposal for federally mandate open access to publicly-funded research... --- Wikipedia is one of the ten most popular websites in the world. Each month 200,000 editors improve over 6 million articles. This vital public

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-20 Thread Peter Southwood
One of the advantages of this project is that the best of each Wikipedia can be used, allowing smaller Wikipedias to concentrate on topics of local interest and importance which are not in the other language wikipedias, and these can be used in the major wikipedias, expanding their diversity if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Early thoughts regarding a global code of conduct and a GCC committee

2020-04-20 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Pine, I don't think a global commitee would be the right place - stewards are currently filling this gap involuntarily, and it seems extremely difficult to judge situations on a local project properly (the Azerbaijani case might come to mind here). For me the ideal version of a universal CoC

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thank you, Scott, this is a great and important question. I go into more detail about the changes to the incentives structures for the contributors in the Wikipedia @ 20 essay here: https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah In short: it relies heavily on getting the user experience just