2011/7/18 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net
On 07/09/11 2:06 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
My point (working in an academic digital library and just seeing the amount of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional repository (5 minutes of their time, even less), how can we
wikilibrarians
think that they will come to us and upload and "curate" their text? I clearly remeber the "Screw it" feeling I had the day after I graduated, meaning that I would not even touch my thesis again for the next months
(and
so it was).
If 5 more minutes of an author's time is too much for uploading a thesis that he has worked in for months or years that's his problem. He could even pay someone to upload for him. It suggests he doesn't have much faith in his own work. It's not our job to hold his hand.
I agree that 5 minutes are an acceptable time: what I wanted to say (probably my English is worse than what I think :-) is that "curation" of a thesis on Wikisource doesn't take 5 minutes, but even 5 hours. 5 hours and a lot of knowledge in Wikisource policies, mediawiki, templates and so on. I perfectly know that having your own thesis in wikitext on Wikisource is a good thing, but I don't honestly know if it is worth the labor.
Aubrey
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