[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

[Jan Szczepanski]

I wrote a piece a couple of years ago and compared the archives with
the backyard steel furnaces during
the Big Leap in China.

At last an European government has the courage to change all that. We
can expect a modern steel
industry that will have a global impact. We time of the evangelist is
at last over.

Jan


2012/5/2 Les A Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> On 2 May 2012, at 16:32, David Prosser wrote:
>
>> I must confess to being strangely confused by this animosity to Jimmy Wales.
> I'd hazard that's because you've never tried to edit a wikipedia page as if you were a research professor. Wikipedia editorial controversies can easily induce a kind of Internet road rage among the mildest of academics :-)
>
>>  Willetts is an ally* and I think Wales could be too - if we allow him to be.
> I do hope that you're right. I'm aware that he's a man with the responsibility of a foundation to promote, and who was originally brought in to provide advice on making research data available. So OA could turn out to be an addendum to an already overcrowded agenda for an unpaid advisor who needs to deliver something! We can help him* deliver, but we may need to be quite agile about how we present our experience and our infrastructure.
>
> ---
> Les Carr
>
> *both Wales and Willets
>
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Jan Szczepański
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för humaniora vid Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek
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