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

[SlimVirgin]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 18:10, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
GA is a very open process. It just takes one person to give a positive
review and an article is promoted. It isn't a major hurdle in the way
FA can be, and the proposed parameters for the Credo accounts (when I
last saw them) included a willingness to nominate an article for GA or
FA within the next 12 months, which is barely a hurdle at all.

Sarah