[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Philippe Beaudette]

Noted, and added to strategic planning page :)


On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:

> 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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