Hi folks,
I just want to notify you about an Individual Engagement Grant I have proposed about furthering a project called The Wikipedia Library. The idea is simple: to arrange for the community's most active and experienced editors to have free, full, and convenient access to the best available academic, scholarly, and subject-specific resources through a single website. To date, the community has arranged four partnerships with library partners (Credo, HighBeam, Questia, and JSTOR). Individually purchased, that account access would have been several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hopefully we can increase that total, our partners, and continue to improve the management of the program with a dedicated grant:
You can comment on the proposal here:
The prior Fellowship proposal with community endorsements is here:
The ongoing project management page is here:
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http://enwp.org/WP:TWL
Should this project be accepted for a grant (or even if it's not), I definitely would like your help in thinking about issues like:
* What are the highest priority resources to get first?
* How can we leverage our collective contacts in the research and publishing community?
* How would we organize a successful program with tens or hundreds of participating sites/journals?
* What technical infrastructure could support a website with access to that many sources (e.g. SAML)
I'd love to continue this conversation.
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
Wikipedia: Ocaasi
Skype: jorlowitz
