[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Samuel Klein]

As specific examples:

It would be great if every publisher of any sort that does basic data
mining and research into primary sources were to share that work
directly on WP and sister projects.   Publishers using free media and
spending time and effort vetting their licenses should update the
license info (with any high-fidelity assurances they tracked down)
directly on Commons.  Librarians curating an exhibit, even in cases
where they are not willing to or cannot make their digital works
available under the right license, can share their curatorial comments
and bibliographies.   As long as professional publishers and curators
feel unwelcome on the projects, they won't discover the ways in which
they have already-free knowledge to contribute.

SJ


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I say "world of WP" I mean "world post-WP" -- the world we live
> in, in which certain businesses are failing now that basic reliable
> information and data are available freely...
>
> It would be healthy to see compatibly-licensed projects that use
> different sets of core principles; not just wikinfo (for instance) but
> also POV specialist reference works.  There is an audience for that,
> and they should also be encouraged to contribute to free knowledge.
> And if someone can find a way to keep professional encyclopedists from
> dying out as a breed, that would be good.  I don't want to see other
> reference works go out of business; I do want to see them adopt free
> licenses -- data, overviews, and reference-style knowledge should all
> be free.
>
> SJ
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Kul Takanao
> Wadhwa<kwadhwa at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  - experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help them
>>> find ways to sustain themselves, particularly in niche markets -- one way is
>>> by distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data).
>>> there is room in the world-of-WP for effective, sustainable POV and
>>> specialist works
>>
>> SJ - Just curious...where in WP do you think POV and specialist works
>> could fit?
>>
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