> 'This archive contains 18,592 scientific publications totaling 33GiB, all > from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and which should be > available to everyone at no cost, but most have previously only been made > available at high prices through paywall gatekeepers like JSTOR. Limited > access to the documents here is typically sold for $19 USD per article, > though some of the older ones are available as cheaply as $8. Purchasing > access to this collection one article at a time would cost hundreds of > thousands of dollars. > > ...When I received these documents I had grand plans of uploading them to > Wikipedia's sister site for reference works, Wikisource - where they could be > tightly interlinked with Wikipedia, providing interesting historical context > to the encyclopedia articles. For example, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by > William Herschel; why not take a look at the paper where he originally > disclosed his discovery? (Or one of the several follow on publications about > its satellites, or the dozens of other papers he authored?) > > But I soon found the reality of the situation to be less than appealing: > publishing the documents freely was likely to bring frivolous litigation from > the publishers. As in many other cases, I could expect them to claim that > their slavish reproduction - scanning the documents - created a new copyright > interest. Or that distributing the documents complete with the trivial > watermarks they added constituted unlawful copying of that mark. They might > even pursue strawman criminal charges claiming that whoever obtained the > files must have violated some kind of anti-hacking laws. > > In my discreet inquiry, I was unable to find anyone willing to cover the > potentially unbounded legal costs I risked, even though the only unlawful > action here is the fraudulent misuse of copyright by JSTOR and the Royal > Society to withhold access from the public to that which is legally and > morally everyone's property.'
--User:Gmaxwell, http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro > 'We're projecting today that 2010-11 revenue will have increased 49% from > 2009-10 actuals, to $23.8 million. Spending is projected to have increased > 103% from 2009-10 actuals, to $18.5 million. This means we added $5.3 million > to the reserve, for a projected end-of-year total of $19.5 million which > represents 8.3 months of reserves at the 2011-12 spending level. > > ...We started the year with an ambitious plan to grow the Wikimedia > Foundation staff 82% from 50 to 91 and a decision to, if necessary, sacrifice > speed for quality (“hiring well rather than hiring quickly”). We expect to > end the year with staff of 78, representing an increase over 2009-10 of 56%.' http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/37/2011-12_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE_.pdf -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
