The WMF corporate site (wikimediafoundation.org) currently has a
full-page ad with the text "We are watching Earth Day Live today. Will
you?". This links to an external site with the text "Click here to sign on
to the US Youth Climate Strike Coalition Earth Day Demands - From congress
and the next president, we demand a People’s Bailout, a Green New Deal, and
Land Back for Indigenous Peoples", and prompting readers to "Pledge to vote
for our future" and to subscribe to "US Climate Strike".
Everyone here already knows how unacceptable this is, and why, so I don't
think this requires any further explanation. The WMF should immediately
take this down, and make certain that this kind of thing can't happen
again. They've failed yet again at preventing inappropriate
political activism in WMF's communications, and must take serious action to
fix this constant stream of terrible failures.
-- Yair Rand
I have another question about that document:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Assoc…
In particular, I believe this part is out of date:
> Legislative Activities (Lobbying)
>
> At the federal level, there are serious restrictions on lobbying, including “direct” and “grassroots” efforts:
>
> Direct lobbying consists of “attempts to influence a legislative body through communication with a member or employee of a legislative body, or with a government official who participates in formulating legislation.”
> Grassroots lobbying consists of “attempts to influence legislation by attempting to affect the opinion of the public with respect to the legislation and encouraging the audience to take action with respect to the legislation. In either case, the communications must refer to and reflect a view on the legislation.”
I believe there has since been case law from the Supreme Court
allowing nonprofits including advocacy organizations, churches, and
civic groups, to communicate with legislators and attempt to influence
public opinion. I note that the irs.gov links from those paragraphs
are now dead.
Please correct me if I am mistaken.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 11:19 AM James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Assoc…
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:45 AM Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 07:27, Yair Rand <yyairrand(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
> > > Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA
> >
> > Link, please.
> >
> > --
> > Andy Mabbett@pigsonthewing
> > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
> >
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Hello,
I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia
Café on Saturday 25 April 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for joining are at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café
----> (video room open at that time) https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt
The agenda for this month includes discussing maps on Wikipedia and
Wikimedia community fundraising outside the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia Café is a modest, one-hour, monthly online meeting which for the
past few months has had fewer than 10 attendees. At these meetings anyone
can propose to discuss any topic of broad Wikimedia community interest, as
if we all were able to meet in person over coffee. The meetings themselves
are an experiment in small group Wikimedia community conversation with
video chat, phone access options, and online shared notetaking. Please see
WikiProject Remote Event Participation for more information about this
general style of online event.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation
- Anyone interested in joining may do so.
- Anyone interested in reading notes of past meetings can find them on
the meta page.
- If there is anyone who wants to get their ideas published in the wiki
world, consider looking at how this Café works, because voice chat with
notetaking could be a way to organize your own wiki community.
Thanks Pine for performing as host in this and thanks to anyone who submits
topics for discussion or who is able to join.
--
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
Dear all,
>From 8 March to 8 April, the second edition of the WikiGap Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge> took place. The WikiGap
Challenge is a challenge aiming to create or improve articles about women
on Wikipedia. It is a part of the WikiGap campaign, organized by Wikimedia
Sverige, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish embassies and
Wikimedia affiliates across the world. This year, we teamed up with the UN
Human Rights office, who proposed a list of 20 women human rights defenders
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/List> that had no
Wikipedia articles (or in only a very few languages). These articles gave
bonus points in the challenge.
It took some extra time this year to finalize the results from the WikiGap
Challenge <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge>, but now
we’re done! And I must confess that we are quite happy with the results.
General outcome
-
72 competitors with actual edits (90 signed up)
-
3,224 articles created or improved.
-
461 Wikidata objects improved
-
Edits made in 38 languages.
-
Editors have contributed 61,591,425 bytes, or roughly 61,5 megabytes.
Human Rights articles
-
There are 20 women in the list.
-
338 articles were created about these women during the challenge.
-
The articles have in total been created in 32 different languages.
-
The article about Bogaletch Gebre
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogaletch_Gebre> is available in the
highest amount of languages, 24 languages.
-
Anna Sharyhina has the largest total size among all languages, with
192,918 bytes (192kb).
-
The largest individual article is the article about Anna Sharyhina in
Ukrainian
<https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%BD%D0…>
.
We can now also announce that the winner of the WikiGap Challenge this year
is Andriy Gritsenko – who also won last year! During the WikiGap Challenge
2020, Andriy wrote or improved 416 articles about women during the month.
You can read more on his motivation and engagement in a piece on our blog:
[link]
Andriy gets to visit the UN Human Rights office in Geneva when the world so
permits, as the first prize. Congrats, Andriy!
His entries, and the rest of the top 10, can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Results
We also wrote a piece on the Wikimedia Sverige blog about it, which can be
found here:
https://wikimedia.se/2020/04/24/vem-blev-vinnare-i-wikigap-challenge-2020/
Best,
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
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
information is viewed on 1 billion unique devices as our pages are loaded
by people around the globe 7,000 times per second.
Wikipedia is the "free encyclopedia", both in its open CC-BY-SA licensing
as well as the unpaid contributions of its volunteer editors. Yet
Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors struggle to access scholarly
research. And, if they are able to read and cite it, then hundreds of
millions of readers cannot verify or explore it for deeper research.
Citations are the bridge between Wikipedia articles and a broader landscape
of reliable, secondary sources. Citations not only allow readers to verify
the reliability of the facts they find in Wikipedia; through citations
readers can also deep-dive into any given topic by exploring the books,
scholarly publications, and news stories referenced in an article.
A recently released dataset of all citations with identifiers in Wikipedia
found that less than half of the official versions of scholarly
publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely available on
the web. This chasm of for editors and for readers is a tragedy of public
education and digital literacy.
Just look at the most recent global catastrophe with Coronavirus. By April
2020 the main articles on COVID-19 had received 50 million views.
Wikipedia's medical content--made up of more than 155,000 articles and 1
billion bytes of text across more than 255 languages--has been ranked as
one of the top-3 most viewed sources for medical information on the entire
internet.
References are essential to the public's trust in Wikipedia. Indeed,
Wikipedia's medical content is supported by 757,855 references in English
and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across all
languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in other
languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal articles.
What happens when those journal articles lie behind a paywall? The public
suffers from a dearth of good information to make decisions about their
lives as independent citizens and members of a global community.
As founder of The Wikipedia Library, I arranged partnerships with dozens of
leading scholarly journals, to give Wikipedia editors free access to their
reliable content and so they would be able to do effective and rigorous
research. This time-intensive process took 6 years to amass access to only
1/5th of the most highly regarded academic publications. Frankly, Wikipedia
editors--volunteers who selflessly give of their intelligence and passion
to educate--should not have to beg and borrow to access publicly-funded
research. Readers should not hit paywalls when they are seeking
citizen-supported knowledge.
I implore you to make the bold but entirely reasonable decision and ensure
that taxpayers have access to the vital scientific and scholarly studies
that they themselves fund. This is not only sensible, it is essential to
civic health, societal progress, and human flourishing.
Sincerely,
Jake Orlowitz
Founder of The Wikipedia Library
---
"Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code
Resulting From Federally Funded Research"
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for…
*Dear all/A chairdeThe Call for Papers or Participation in the 2020
virtual/remote Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020> closes on
Thursday 30 April at midnight. The event will centre around 9-10 July with
workshops, help desks and other events taking place throughout the week.We
are looking for your most imaginative ideas for how we can host a variety
of interesting, engaging, and enlightening talks, workshops, presentations,
and events. We are looking for those with Wikimedia experience to share to
use their new virtual hosting and facilitating skills with those in Ireland
and beyond to bring those new events to Celtic Knot 2020.*
*Is there a new event format you have been experimenting with for your
language or other community?*
*Have you found the best platform to run a workshop, helpdesk, or learning
environment?Has a virtual/remote format you’ve developed, and you want to
showcase it to others?Are you a Wikidata, Commons, Translation Tool, or
other wizard, and you want to help new editors get involved through Celtic
Knot?Have you been trying something so innovative that you would like to
share with the Wikimedia community?Then submit a proposal here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020#Submissions>
to bring that event to Celtic Knot 2020 to work with those engaged with
minority languages. The submission formats are guidance, please feel free
to propose something that will suit your submission for a workshop, virtual
round table, interactive event or helpdesk.We look forward to hearing from
you!From the organization team,Wikimedia UK (Daria Cybulska, Director of
Programmes)Wikimedia Community Ireland (Rebecca O’Neill, Project
Coordinator)*
--
PhD in Digital Media
Project Coordinator Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie>
She/Her
Hi everyone,
Yesterday, the 2030 Brand Movement Project presented the unified concept
that will guide the upcoming branding proposals. Thanks to the 224
attendees who watched the presentation live! Participants brought a great
stream of comments and questions (averaging 8 per minute!) that helped
clarify important points.
The unified concept, “interconnection”, was arrived at after many community
workshops, exercises, and conversations. “Interconnection” distills the 23
distinct concepts generated in workshops into a single word that links
together the insights and definitions from the participants, and at the
same time adds more meaning to the answer to the question who are we? This
concept will not be a public or visible part of branding, but rather a
guiding idea.
Take a look at the video explaining interconnection as a unified concept
[1].
You can watch the full presentation video, together with the lively
discussion that accompanied it [2]. Most of the questions were answered
during the presentation (including questions about the project scope, the
upcoming naming convention proposals, and the RfC), but there wasn't enough
time to answer them all. Questions are being compiled on the Brand Network
talk page on Meta [3].
The team will be hosting a follow-up office hour next week to answer the
rest of the questions. Participation details will be shared on the Brand
Network talk page. The session will be recorded and shared, and answers
will be covered on the project pages. If you have a different question
you’d like to ask, feel free to add it to the page or bring it to the
office hour.
PS: As soon as these videos are ready for Commons we will upload them
there, and we will notify about this on the Brand Network talk page as well.
Thanks,
Samir & the Brand Project team
[1]
https://brandingwikipedia.org/2020/04/16/our-unified-concept-interconnectio…
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS72O6Si94Q
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brand_Network#Unified_concept:_Interco…
Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)
Community Brand and Marketing coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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 and Public Policy
teams should seriously consider a submission.
It would also be appropriate for Wikimedia affiliates with any U.S.
presence, such as Wiki Project Med, to submit their own letters.
Submission is simple and instructions are here:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for…
This is a unique opportunity to shift funding and scholarly communications
policy. We shouldn't waste it.
Jake Orlowitz
Founder of the Wikipedia Library
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:26:29 -0700
> From: Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy
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> 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 <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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 <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > information is viewed on 1 billion unique devices as our pages are
> loaded
> > > by people around the globe 7,000 times per second.
> > >
> > > Wikipedia is the "free encyclopedia", both in its open CC-BY-SA
> licensing
> > > as well as the unpaid contributions of its volunteer editors. Yet
> > > Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors struggle to access
> scholarly
> > > research. And, if they are able to read and cite it, then hundreds of
> > > millions of readers cannot verify or explore it for deeper research.
> > >
> > > Citations are the bridge between Wikipedia articles and a broader
> > landscape
> > > of reliable, secondary sources. Citations not only allow readers to
> > verify
> > > the reliability of the facts they find in Wikipedia; through citations
> > > readers can also deep-dive into any given topic by exploring the books,
> > > scholarly publications, and news stories referenced in an article.
> > >
> > > A recently released dataset of all citations with identifiers in
> > Wikipedia
> > > found that less than half of the official versions of scholarly
> > > publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely available
> > on
> > > the web. This chasm of for editors and for readers is a tragedy of
> public
> > > education and digital literacy.
> > >
> > > Just look at the most recent global catastrophe with Coronavirus. By
> > April
> > > 2020 the main articles on COVID-19 had received 50 million views.
> > > Wikipedia's medical content--made up of more than 155,000 articles and
> 1
> > > billion bytes of text across more than 255 languages--has been ranked
> as
> > > one of the top-3 most viewed sources for medical information on the
> > entire
> > > internet.
> > >
> > > References are essential to the public's trust in Wikipedia. Indeed,
> > > Wikipedia's medical content is supported by 757,855 references in
> English
> > > and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across all
> > > languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in other
> > > languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal articles.
> > >
> > > What happens when those journal articles lie behind a paywall? The
> public
> > > suffers from a dearth of good information to make decisions about their
> > > lives as independent citizens and members of a global community.
> > >
> > > As founder of The Wikipedia Library, I arranged partnerships with
> dozens
> > of
> > > leading scholarly journals, to give Wikipedia editors free access to
> > their
> > > reliable content and so they would be able to do effective and rigorous
> > > research. This time-intensive process took 6 years to amass access to
> > only
> > > 1/5th of the most highly regarded academic publications. Frankly,
> > Wikipedia
> > > editors--volunteers who selflessly give of their intelligence and
> passion
> > > to educate--should not have to beg and borrow to access publicly-funded
> > > research. Readers should not hit paywalls when they are seeking
> > > citizen-supported knowledge.
> > >
> > > I implore you to make the bold but entirely reasonable decision and
> > ensure
> > > that taxpayers have access to the vital scientific and scholarly
> studies
> > > that they themselves fund. This is not only sensible, it is essential
> to
> > > civic health, societal progress, and human flourishing.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Jake Orlowitz
> > > Founder of The Wikipedia Library
> > >
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > "Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code
> > > Resulting From Federally Funded Research"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for…
> > > _______________________________________________
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:33:01 +0300
> From: Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy
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>
> 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 Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
>
> * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
> * Azrieli Foundation Research Fellow.
> * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
> <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology,
> Internationalization
> and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
> <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
>
> * Member of the Board of Trustees
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>,
> Wikimedia
> Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>.
> * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
> <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
> * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://benyehuda.org>.
>
> +972-525640648
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:27 PM Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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 <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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 <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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
> > > > information is viewed on 1 billion unique devices as our pages are
> > loaded
> > > > by people around the globe 7,000 times per second.
> > > >
> > > > Wikipedia is the "free encyclopedia", both in its open CC-BY-SA
> > licensing
> > > > as well as the unpaid contributions of its volunteer editors. Yet
> > > > Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors struggle to access
> > scholarly
> > > > research. And, if they are able to read and cite it, then hundreds of
> > > > millions of readers cannot verify or explore it for deeper research.
> > > >
> > > > Citations are the bridge between Wikipedia articles and a broader
> > > landscape
> > > > of reliable, secondary sources. Citations not only allow readers to
> > > verify
> > > > the reliability of the facts they find in Wikipedia; through
> citations
> > > > readers can also deep-dive into any given topic by exploring the
> books,
> > > > scholarly publications, and news stories referenced in an article.
> > > >
> > > > A recently released dataset of all citations with identifiers in
> > > Wikipedia
> > > > found that less than half of the official versions of scholarly
> > > > publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely
> available
> > > on
> > > > the web. This chasm of for editors and for readers is a tragedy of
> > public
> > > > education and digital literacy.
> > > >
> > > > Just look at the most recent global catastrophe with Coronavirus. By
> > > April
> > > > 2020 the main articles on COVID-19 had received 50 million views.
> > > > Wikipedia's medical content--made up of more than 155,000 articles
> and
> > 1
> > > > billion bytes of text across more than 255 languages--has been ranked
> > as
> > > > one of the top-3 most viewed sources for medical information on the
> > > entire
> > > > internet.
> > > >
> > > > References are essential to the public's trust in Wikipedia. Indeed,
> > > > Wikipedia's medical content is supported by 757,855 references in
> > English
> > > > and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across all
> > > > languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in other
> > > > languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal
> articles.
> > > >
> > > > What happens when those journal articles lie behind a paywall? The
> > public
> > > > suffers from a dearth of good information to make decisions about
> their
> > > > lives as independent citizens and members of a global community.
> > > >
> > > > As founder of The Wikipedia Library, I arranged partnerships with
> > dozens
> > > of
> > > > leading scholarly journals, to give Wikipedia editors free access to
> > > their
> > > > reliable content and so they would be able to do effective and
> rigorous
> > > > research. This time-intensive process took 6 years to amass access to
> > > only
> > > > 1/5th of the most highly regarded academic publications. Frankly,
> > > Wikipedia
> > > > editors--volunteers who selflessly give of their intelligence and
> > passion
> > > > to educate--should not have to beg and borrow to access
> publicly-funded
> > > > research. Readers should not hit paywalls when they are seeking
> > > > citizen-supported knowledge.
> > > >
> > > > I implore you to make the bold but entirely reasonable decision and
> > > ensure
> > > > that taxpayers have access to the vital scientific and scholarly
> > studies
> > > > that they themselves fund. This is not only sensible, it is essential
> > to
> > > > civic health, societal progress, and human flourishing.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > Jake Orlowitz
> > > > Founder of The Wikipedia Library
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > "Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code
> > > > Resulting From Federally Funded Research"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for…
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:50:57 +0200
> From: Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy
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> 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 our real world, the researchers will have to pay everything
> out of their own pocket, with some of them losing all possibilities to
> publish, for the lack of funds. I tried to raise this before, and the
> universal reply was that this is my problem, not the problem of the
> society. I do not expect anything else this time.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:34 PM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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 Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
> >
> > * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
> > * Azrieli Foundation Research Fellow.
> > * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
> > <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology,
> > Internationalization
> > and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
> > <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
> >
> > * Member of the Board of Trustees
> > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>,
> > Wikimedia
> > Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>.
> > * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
> > <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
> > * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://benyehuda.org>.
> >
> > +972-525640648
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:27 PM Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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 <trulytito(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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 <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 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
> > > > > information is viewed on 1 billion unique devices as our pages are
> > > loaded
> > > > > by people around the globe 7,000 times per second.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wikipedia is the "free encyclopedia", both in its open CC-BY-SA
> > > licensing
> > > > > as well as the unpaid contributions of its volunteer editors. Yet
> > > > > Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors struggle to access
> > > scholarly
> > > > > research. And, if they are able to read and cite it, then hundreds
> of
> > > > > millions of readers cannot verify or explore it for deeper
> research.
> > > > >
> > > > > Citations are the bridge between Wikipedia articles and a broader
> > > > landscape
> > > > > of reliable, secondary sources. Citations not only allow readers to
> > > > verify
> > > > > the reliability of the facts they find in Wikipedia; through
> > citations
> > > > > readers can also deep-dive into any given topic by exploring the
> > books,
> > > > > scholarly publications, and news stories referenced in an article.
> > > > >
> > > > > A recently released dataset of all citations with identifiers in
> > > > Wikipedia
> > > > > found that less than half of the official versions of scholarly
> > > > > publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely
> > available
> > > > on
> > > > > the web. This chasm of for editors and for readers is a tragedy of
> > > public
> > > > > education and digital literacy.
> > > > >
> > > > > Just look at the most recent global catastrophe with Coronavirus.
> By
> > > > April
> > > > > 2020 the main articles on COVID-19 had received 50 million views.
> > > > > Wikipedia's medical content--made up of more than 155,000 articles
> > and
> > > 1
> > > > > billion bytes of text across more than 255 languages--has been
> ranked
> > > as
> > > > > one of the top-3 most viewed sources for medical information on the
> > > > entire
> > > > > internet.
> > > > >
> > > > > References are essential to the public's trust in Wikipedia.
> Indeed,
> > > > > Wikipedia's medical content is supported by 757,855 references in
> > > English
> > > > > and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across
> all
> > > > > languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in other
> > > > > languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal
> > articles.
> > > > >
> > > > > What happens when those journal articles lie behind a paywall? The
> > > public
> > > > > suffers from a dearth of good information to make decisions about
> > their
> > > > > lives as independent citizens and members of a global community.
> > > > >
> > > > > As founder of The Wikipedia Library, I arranged partnerships with
> > > dozens
> > > > of
> > > > > leading scholarly journals, to give Wikipedia editors free access
> to
> > > > their
> > > > > reliable content and so they would be able to do effective and
> > rigorous
> > > > > research. This time-intensive process took 6 years to amass access
> to
> > > > only
> > > > > 1/5th of the most highly regarded academic publications. Frankly,
> > > > Wikipedia
> > > > > editors--volunteers who selflessly give of their intelligence and
> > > passion
> > > > > to educate--should not have to beg and borrow to access
> > publicly-funded
> > > > > research. Readers should not hit paywalls when they are seeking
> > > > > citizen-supported knowledge.
> > > > >
> > > > > I implore you to make the bold but entirely reasonable decision and
> > > > ensure
> > > > > that taxpayers have access to the vital scientific and scholarly
> > > studies
> > > > > that they themselves fund. This is not only sensible, it is
> essential
> > > to
> > > > > civic health, societal progress, and human flourishing.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Sincerely,
> > > > > Jake Orlowitz
> > > > > Founder of The Wikipedia Library
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ---
> > > > >
> > > > > "Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and
> Code
> > > > > Resulting From Federally Funded Research"
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for…
> > > > > _______________________________________________
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:54:03 -0600
> From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> 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 <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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 our real world, the researchers will have to pay
> everything
> > out of their own pocket, with some of them losing all possibilities to
> > publish, for the lack of funds. I tried to raise this before, and the
> > universal reply was that this is my problem, not the problem of the
> > society. I do not expect anything else this time.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Yaroslav
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:34 PM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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 Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
> > >
> > > * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
> > > * Azrieli Foundation Research Fellow.
> > > * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
> > > <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology,
> > > Internationalization
> > > and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
> > > <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
> > >
> > > * Member of the Board of Trustees
> > > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>,
> > > Wikimedia
> > > Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>.
> > > * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
> > > <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
> > > * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://benyehuda.org>.
> > >
> > > +972-525640648
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:27 PM Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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 <trulytito(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 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 <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > 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
> > > > > > information is viewed on 1 billion unique devices as our pages
> are
> > > > loaded
> > > > > > by people around the globe 7,000 times per second.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Wikipedia is the "free encyclopedia", both in its open CC-BY-SA
> > > > licensing
> > > > > > as well as the unpaid contributions of its volunteer editors. Yet
> > > > > > Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors struggle to access
> > > > scholarly
> > > > > > research. And, if they are able to read and cite it, then
> hundreds
> > of
> > > > > > millions of readers cannot verify or explore it for deeper
> > research.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Citations are the bridge between Wikipedia articles and a broader
> > > > > landscape
> > > > > > of reliable, secondary sources. Citations not only allow readers
> to
> > > > > verify
> > > > > > the reliability of the facts they find in Wikipedia; through
> > > citations
> > > > > > readers can also deep-dive into any given topic by exploring the
> > > books,
> > > > > > scholarly publications, and news stories referenced in an
> article.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A recently released dataset of all citations with identifiers in
> > > > > Wikipedia
> > > > > > found that less than half of the official versions of scholarly
> > > > > > publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely
> > > available
> > > > > on
> > > > > > the web. This chasm of for editors and for readers is a tragedy
> of
> > > > public
> > > > > > education and digital literacy.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just look at the most recent global catastrophe with Coronavirus.
> > By
> > > > > April
> > > > > > 2020 the main articles on COVID-19 had received 50 million views.
> > > > > > Wikipedia's medical content--made up of more than 155,000
> articles
> > > and
> > > > 1
> > > > > > billion bytes of text across more than 255 languages--has been
> > ranked
> > > > as
> > > > > > one of the top-3 most viewed sources for medical information on
> the
> > > > > entire
> > > > > > internet.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > References are essential to the public's trust in Wikipedia.
> > Indeed,
> > > > > > Wikipedia's medical content is supported by 757,855 references in
> > > > English
> > > > > > and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across
> > all
> > > > > > languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in
> other
> > > > > > languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal
> > > articles.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What happens when those journal articles lie behind a paywall?
> The
> > > > public
> > > > > > suffers from a dearth of good information to make decisions about
> > > their
> > > > > > lives as independent citizens and members of a global community.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As founder of The Wikipedia Library, I arranged partnerships with
> > > > dozens
> > > > > of
> > > > > > leading scholarly journals, to give Wikipedia editors free access
> > to
> > > > > their
> > > > > > reliable content and so they would be able to do effective and
> > > rigorous
> > > > > > research. This time-intensive process took 6 years to amass
> access
> > to
> > > > > only
> > > > > > 1/5th of the most highly regarded academic publications. Frankly,
> > > > > Wikipedia
> > > > > > editors--volunteers who selflessly give of their intelligence and
> > > > passion
> > > > > > to educate--should not have to beg and borrow to access
> > > publicly-funded
> > > > > > research. Readers should not hit paywalls when they are seeking
> > > > > > citizen-supported knowledge.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I implore you to make the bold but entirely reasonable decision
> and
> > > > > ensure
> > > > > > that taxpayers have access to the vital scientific and scholarly
> > > > studies
> > > > > > that they themselves fund. This is not only sensible, it is
> > essential
> > > > to
> > > > > > civic health, societal progress, and human flourishing.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sincerely,
> > > > > > Jake Orlowitz
> > > > > > Founder of The Wikipedia Library
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and
> > Code
> > > > > > Resulting From Federally Funded Research"
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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>
I would like to share our experience earlier this week with the WikiSeder,
a secular celebration of wiki wisdom and free culture for the age of the
quarantini.
As we pass through our current plague, we came together from our lockdowns
to retell stories of liberation and crisis overcome through fellowship and
information-sharing, with some light-hearted discussion of strategy and
barnstar culture too.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSeder
Hosted by Wikimedia NYC and friends on the Wikipedia Weekly Network, which
was recently revived as a livestream channel to help bring together our
community in the current crisis.
You can view the entirety on YouTube and other platforms, coming soon to
Commons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCvt2DowhM0
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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