[Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

[Keegan Peterzell]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Stephanie Daugherty
<sdaugherty at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Of course we would expect that providers and universities will only be
> able
> > to provide a limited number of users with access. But access rights could
> be
> > awarded on the basis of merit, say, to users who have written at least
> one
> > Featured Article (Exzellenter Artikel, etc.), or have contributed 50
> DYKs,
> > or what have you. This would actually provide users with a motivation to
> > create quality content as well
>
> I object to this strongly. The FA, and DYK processes are absolutely
> useless as a measure of an editor's worth to the project. There's
> plenty of wikignomes and other mostly unrecognized editors that will
> be able to do more than someone just focused on brownie points. The
> only thing that should be a consideration is that the editor is
> committed enough to use the resources to improve articles, and that
> the editor doesn't already have access to the resources another way
> (like through their local library). FA and even DYK processes are too
> political on some wikis, at least from my experience on en - the
> process needs to be aimed at making sure regulars have resources, not
> about a reward for some token "achievement".
>
> If we have to base it on numbers, a pattern of contributions over
> several months is what we should look for - something that suggests
> the editor will keep contributing.
>
> -Stephanie
>
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Hear, hear.

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~Keegan

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