Hello,
2017-05-17 10:08 GMT-07:00 David Cuenca Tudela :
> Are there any activities that could have a meaningful impact if we ask
> donors for such amount of seed money? Are there reasons to do so?
>
> Can we offer anything else in this world than truth, free knowledge, and an
> open inclusive e
One billion dollars, judiciously invested, is an income of present-day
value around 20 to 30 million dollars a year for ever. That would buy any
of the following
* One reasonably expensive book per month for every one of the 30,000 most
active content contributors for ever
* 300 full-time permane
2017-05-17 10:38 GMT-07:00 Amir E. Aharoni :
> Heh, I remember Mr Wales asking what could the movement do with a million
> dollars some time around 2006.
That question was about a hundred million, actually:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-16/Copyright#.24100_mill
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:19 AM, FRED BAUDER wrote:
> I think we could hire professional fact checkers and target articles that
> have gotten off track. I don't think a great deal of money would be
> necessary to set an example, and illustrate some of our notorious problems.
This is what the AR
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Hi,
> Are there any activities that could have a meaningful impact if we ask
> donors for such amount of seed money? Are there reasons to do so?
In many areas we lack good secondary sources
On 17 May 2017 at 18:08, David Cuenca Tudela wrote:
> Are there any activities that could have a meaningful impact if we ask
> donors for such amount of seed money? Are there reasons to do so?
Space program. A billion should get you a couple of dawn clones and if
you focus on flybys rather than
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> I love it, although I suspect that 1B wouldn't be enough. The industry of
> for-profit academic publishing is probably worth much more than that, and
> it won't give up easily.
>
> Not that I don't support th
Hi,
> Are there any activities that could have a meaningful impact if we ask
> donors for such amount of seed money? Are there reasons to do so?
In many areas we lack good secondary sources. Some times we don't even
have any secondary sources. I did some work at the National Manufacture
of Cerami
We have built up an amazing amount of good will. When we raise money we
spend some of that good will. Unless we have something worth spending it
on, no need to do so. We already have a lot of professional fact checkers.
I for example am a professional and check a lot of facts :-) Cochrane has
also
I love it, although I suspect that 1B wouldn't be enough. The industry of
for-profit academic publishing is probably worth much more than that, and
it won't give up easily.
Not that I don't support the general idea, but the resistance will be hard.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲר
I am pretty sure we already have the Bible translated in all the languages
(don't know because I didn't check). You inspired me though to think about
the benefits of interlinking it down to the word level and how that might
benefit Wikidata in achieving a level playing field in basic terminology
fo
I saw a very interesting documentary about a South American country
(Brazil? Argentina?) where they were already ignoring Western copyright law
in order to free up collaboration in science. I have no idea what the legal
repercussions are of doing something like that and from what I have seen on
Eng
(I'm not sure I was understood correctly... I didn't mean translating the
Bible to yet more languages, but translating an encyclopedia to more
languages.)
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moo
That is an interesting idea! Maybe we should be working on modelling the
Bible better on Wikidata and cross-referencing it to dictionaries and all
other religious texts. If it is so important for literacy, it may help
unite efforts on labelling in Wikidata. I have no idea how many words are
used in
With that amount of money,
we could probably put an end on closed science in less than a decade, and
make open access and open science the new standard.
There's already a lot of efforts going on, but incumbent publishers are
much more rich and resourceful.
Lobbying, advocacy, outreach could do a lo
Heh, I remember Mr Wales asking what could the movement do with a million
dollars some time around 2006. Is anything on the horizon?
What could we do? Many things; one of them would be to get our act together
and become a true leader in software and content localization. Currently we
are proud abo
I think we could hire professional fact checkers and target articles
that have gotten off track. I don't think a great deal of money would
be necessary to set an example, and illustrate some of our notorious
problems. In general more money, however, draws flies even better than
shit.
Fred Bau
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