[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[aude]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Tue, 8/3/11, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> > From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> > Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> > I guess I would like editors to have access to archives and
> > databases
> > such as those ProQuest sells. Not sure how that would fit
> > into our
> > budget.
>
>
> I would like to second that as well -- this is a very important way in
> which
> the Foundation could support high-volume content contributors, and which
> would make a significant difference to article quality.
>
> This should be a part of university outreach as well. Many university
> students have log-in IDs enabling them to log into academic databases from
> their homes. Please tell universities who would like to support Wikipedia
> that this is a really important way in which they can support the project,
> by allowing established content contributors access to these databases.
>
> And as Sarah says, if numbers are limited, access should be given to
> editors
> based on merit, based on a history of content work that would benefit from
> such access.
>

+1

I'm not a university student but for $300/year, could get borrowing
privilege at the local university. (
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/associates)  I bet as part of our
university outreach, from WMF, they might just grant access to some
wikipedians.  Access to academic databases would also be super useful.

I don't have $300 out of my pocket to spare for this.  Right now, without
being able to checkout books, I'm unable to contribute in any meaningful way
to the enwiki US Collaboration of the Month (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:USCOTM), [[George Washington]]. :(  But,
know the university has oodles of excellent reference materials about him.

Yet, I would love to see efforts like USCOTM succeed and sad I can't really
help.

Cheers,
Katie



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