Shani,
This blog post by Jake and the Library team might suffice. It's from last
year and directly addresses this issue:
Would love to hear what the Wikipedia Library Project
team has to say on
the issue.
Pinging Jake Orlowitz & Alex Stinson.
Shani.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
As the panel moderator, I felt there was a rather
strong consensus (from
the various communication channels -- wiki pages, blog & Facebook posts
and
discussions, and the panel) that went a bit
beyond what Robert said
(which
is certainly an important piece.
A number of people also felt that, while the Elsevier deal may have been
a
good one, there may also have been better ways to
communicate it -- and
specifically, ways to place restrictions on the kind of language
(entities
like) Elsevier could use around the Wikimedia
trademarks. I believe this
was all absorbed by Wikipedia Library staff, and I have no doubt that
future announcements will be better suited to Wikimedia values.
I agree with Lodewijk that strong consensus would be needed to overturn
an
existing contract. Please note also that at least
six Wikimedia
volunteers
would be impacted if Wikimedia were to renege on
its contract: those who
have gained access to Elsevier Science Direct through the program, and
are
presumably doing good Wikipedia work as a result.
Have you checked in
with
them, or looked at their work, Milos?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Elsevier_ScienceDirect
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Robert Fernandez <
wikigamaliel(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> "No, WMF shouldn't morally support Elsevier by having any relation with
> them."
>
> This was debated extensively last September. The opinion of many,
> including myself, was that the WMF's primary commitment should be to
the
encyclopedia and providing editors and readers the resources to improve
the
> encyclopedia, not making a moral stand against Elsevier by withdrawing
> those resources.
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone can use Sci-Hub. Officially you cannot, legally you should
not.
> > The
> > > WMF makes it possible for those who want to use Elsevier.
> > >
> > > No problem; anyone can use Sci-Hub. Move on.
> >
> > Dear Gerard,
> >
> > You are again ignoring the point intentionally.
> >
> > No, WMF shouldn't morally support Elsevier by having any relation
with
> > them.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Milos
> >
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