On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 21:50, Juergen Fenn <juergen.f...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Am 08.03.11 21:36, schrieb Andrea Zanni: > >>> AFAIK, these publishers make the pricing upon the number of >> scholars/researchers/students of a certain university/corporation: I bet >> they would make us unbearable fees (in fact the potential users are hundred >> thousands, if not millions). > > That's right if you would negotiate with the publishers to have all > wikipedians take part in the the such a scheme, but access to academic > literature can only be offered to those authors who contribute regularly > and who are long-time part of a WikiProject or a Portal. Otherwise you > would have the effects you've described. >
there might be another effect, which is imo more critical: one might argue that paying somebody to do the opposite of openining up the knowledge under a free license is completely against the basic mission of wmf, and the whole free knowledge movement. my personal guess is that quite a high number of people / donators do not like this. rupert. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l