Hi everybody,
I wanted to give you the heads up that the Wikimedia Foundation is planning to endorse a petition to the White House to mandate open access to taxpayer-funded research. The petition is in line with previous open access declarations that we endorsed and is supported by a large number of organizations including Creative Commons, the Public Library of Science and the Open Knowledge Foundation. The White House will give a formal response if the petition hits 25K signatures within 30 days (by June 19).
We are aiming to publish a blog post tomorrow morning PT and we put together some FAQ explaining how the decision was made and why we want to support this important initiative that is fully aligned with our mission. We'll send an announcement shortly to various other community outlets.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Access2Researchhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Access2Research
If you want to help please head off to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Access2Research
Best,
Dario
(apologies for cross-posting)
A petition you should care about: require free access over the Internet to journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.
http://access2research.org/http://wh.gov/6TH
25,000 signatures in 30 days (by June 19) gets an official response from the White House.
Dario
Hey folks,
I'd like to offer a new request for subject recruitment for your review:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_Wikipedia_Coordinatio…
I think this project is ready, so I need your input. I'd like to close the
discussion by Monday, May 14th.
Summary:
- *Researcher*: Jodi Schneider from the Digital Enterprise Research
Institute
- *Recruitment*: 10 new participants in AfD discussions (via 40
Special:EmailUser invitations)
- *Study*: 1 on 1 interviews
- *Primary RQ*: Where are newcomers having trouble participating in AfD
discussions?
Thanks!
-Aaron
Dear RCom members,
we have a new application for a research project which involves subject
recruitment, though on a relatively minor scale
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Shallow_Entry:_A_problem-centric_ap…
Since Aaron is involved, I agreed to lead the discussion. I left a
number of questions on the talk page, and I got answers which are in my
opinion satisfactory. Please have a look. If in two days there is no
reaction from RCom members, or if no major issues arise, I am going to
give green light to the proposal.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Yaroslav