Sorry no. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a forum to further a political
goal.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, 18:42 Mitar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies
> giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the
> tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to
> paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our
> readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free
> advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done.
>
> This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We
> should not be proud of this.
>
> (Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think
> The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel
> this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list.
> Which this is not.)
>
>
> Mitar
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
> >
> > NEW
> > *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign
> up
> > on one of two language Wikipedias:
> >   English signup <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter>
> >   German signup <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter>
> > *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives
> >    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3>
> > *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database
> >    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople>
> >
> > EXPANDED
> > *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers
> > archives
> >    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA>
> >
> > OPEN
> > *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines
> >    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam>
> > *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social
> science
> >    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia>
> > *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives
> >    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR>
> >
> > Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account
> and
> > 1000 edits.  Please notify your local community about the signups.
> Signups
> > for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local
> > Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and
> German.  To
> > get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > The Wikipedia Library Team
> >  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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