Hi all,
I'm still trying to figure out whether these partnerships are a good or bad
thing for Wikimedia.
Yes, it's good/great that Wikimedia volunteers are able to access these
resources so that they can develop Wikipedia articles, and hence increasing the
amount of knowledge that we can
My thoughts are as follows: These paywall resources only make accessible
information that has already been published, and which editors would
otherwise have to purchase or access through other financially-restrictive
means. But the same is true of our readers, who would have to check the
Mike has a good point. I expect Access2Research (see archives of
wikimedia-l) to be creating more open research though.
On 2012-08-11 6:56 PM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
I'm still trying to figure out whether these partnerships are a good or bad
thing for
On 11 August 2012 22:56, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
So this is a balancing act - but I'm not currently sure which side outweighs
the other, or whether the two sides are currently balancing each other out…
What does everyone think? And is there an on-wiki page where we
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 August 2012 22:56, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
So this is a balancing act - but I'm not currently sure which side outweighs
the other, or whether the two sides are currently balancing each other
I think there is fair reason to raise questions about the benefit of paywalled
sources, despite my optimism about the partnerships. I don't totally share the
concerns, but they are surely worth addressing:
First off, we are not handled any ideal choices here. Either our editors do
not have
A few additional thoughts:
This is not just a problem with paywalled sources, but *any* source which is
not available free *and* online. Not all of the sources that have been donated
are solely pay-for-access; some of them, for example, you would just need a
good university library reference
On 12 August 2012 00:07, Ocaasi Ocaasi wikioca...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is not just a problem with paywalled sources, but *any* source which is
not available free *and* online. Not all of the sources that have been
donated are solely pay-for-access; some of them, for example, you would just
On 8/12/12 1:20 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 12 August 2012 00:07, Ocaasi Ocaasi wikioca...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is not just a problem with paywalled sources, but *any* source which is
not available free *and* online. Not all of the sources that have been donated
are solely pay-for-access;
