[Wikimedia-l] omnibus questions for Katherine Maher (was Re: Copyright enforcement?)

[James Salsman]

Thanks, Jonathan. Do you think we can convince Katherine Maher to
agree to enforce the Creative Commons Attribution requirements? There
is no doubt it would aid both editor recruitment, and as you point
out, morale too.

I also want to ask her about:

(2) survey metrics:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_2030/Process_planning=17657673=17628160

(3) benchmarking investment performance against institutional
endowment-grade mutual funds and studies of endowment performance:
 https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rzeckhau/EndowmentsPaperPartII.pdf
and e.g., 
https://institutional.vanguard.com/iam/pdf/EndowmentPerformanceResearch.pdf
Related: endowment size required for full sustainability;

(4) testing replacing the pencil icon with the word "[edit]" on mobile;

(5) intelligibility remediation on Wiktionary as a Foundation
technology development project;

(6) systemic review of bias in economics articles; and

(7) an ongoing top performers' invitational essay contest for the
Education Program.

Katherine, what are your opinions on those recommendations?

Can (6) and (7) be combined?

Best regards,
Jim


On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:50 PM, Jonathan Cardy
 wrote:
> I wouldn't express it quite so bluntly, but agreed at a time when editing 
> seems to have stabilised again after the 2015/16 rally, shifting the 
> Foundation to a strategy of promoting compliance with both BY and SA would 
> address a lot of problems. It is probably demotivating for editors to see 
> their work used without attribution, and whilst a link back to Wikipedia is 
> not as going to be as good as an edit button, we are greatly limiting 
> ourselves if we rely on people coming directly to our sites and treat every 
> extract from our sites as CC0 or Fair Use.
>
> A few legal letters and maybe a court case a year should be easily affordable 
> for the WMF and an excellent investment.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright enforcement?

[Jonathan Cardy]

I wouldn't express it quite so bluntly, but agreed at a time when editing seems 
to have stabilised again after the 2015/16 rally, shifting the Foundation to a 
strategy of promoting compliance with both BY and SA would address a lot of 
problems. It is probably demotivating for editors to see their work used 
without attribution, and whilst a link back to Wikipedia is not as going to be 
as good as an edit button, we are greatly limiting ourselves if we rely on 
people coming directly to our sites and treat every extract from our sites as 
CC0 or Fair Use.

A few legal letters and maybe a court case a year should be easily affordable 
for the WMF and an excellent investment. 

Regards

Jonathan 

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