On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Benj. Mako Hill <m...@mit.edu> wrote:
> If the result of that turmoil is that tax-payers get access to the > research they funded and that the product of scientific knowledge is > increasing accessible without pay-walls and fees that create > roadblocks and exacerbate existing inequalities, I am willing to put > up with a little turmoil. > > There are already thriving open access journals in many fields and > plenty of reasons to believe that peer review is not at risk. But even > if we had no idea *how* things would work out, let's not let a lack of > imagination keep us from standing up for something that is > right. Access to scientific knowledge is deeply important -- and a key > part of why Wikipedia exists today. Just as Wikipedia has does in the > area of reference works -- and lets not pretend Wikipedia growth has > been without turmoil -- let's *make* it possible. This is nicely put. -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: k...@wikimedia.org, k...@mindspillage.org (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
