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

[David Goodman]

I agree with that about FA/GA, possibly because I avoid that place
myself,  but for negotiating with publishers it would help to have a
standard of some sort, in addition to a maximum number, so they would
know they're not opening it up to the world in general, which is a
matter of some concern to most of them.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:10 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> 2011/3/15 SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com>:
>>>> Speaking of the CREDO accounts, several people have asked that their
>>>> accounts be reassigned, but they don't know how to do it. Could Erik
>>>> advise? See here --
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Credo_accounts#I_gave_up_my_account_in_June
>>>
>>> As per my earlier message, Credo is willing to give away up to 400
>>> additional accounts, so we really shouldn't be too worried about
>>> reassigning the existing ones until we've handed these out. Here's
>>> what I wrote in September:
>>
>> There are a few ex-Wikipedians on the current list.  Not sure how you
>> want to address that.
>
> I'm also going to go to the talk page, but...
>
> I object to the GA/FA/etc requirement.  There are a lot of content
> editors out there who won't go near the FA mafia.
>
> I use that term carefully, and hopefully without inciting a great
> backlash.  The people involved in the GA/FA etc process are welcome as
> far as I am concerned to keep doing what they're doing, but I don't
> want membership in that community to be a gatekeeper requirement for
> other participation.
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>
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