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

[George Herbert]

As I stated on the talk page - I agree with the idea of some standard
for reference-useful content contribution, and that FA/GA work would
be one aspect of that.  But I'd like that to be a category with one
option of satisfying it being GA/FA work, rather than that being the
only way to fulfil it.



On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:08 PM, David Goodman <dggenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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