No, you don't have to camp out. :) You can ask for arbitration at any
time. Or you can call for a third party opinion. Or call for expert
opinions. Or call for a vote. There are a lot of options actually. Even
if someone reverts repeatedly in a more leisurely fashion you can bring
them to arbitration. Although wikipedia does encourage people to work
things out via talk pages. Sometimes this works, but sometimes people
are stupid. Just like the rest of life really. That's one of the things
I really like about wikipedia. It's real. Sometimes it's annoying. But
it's better than pretending the world is better than it really is.
> Information may want to be free, but editors, printers,
> database compilers, and the postal service all want cash,
> and that is just reality.
wikipedia is edited, arbitrated and distributed for free. I know it
isn't the same quality as academic journals. But what if it became that
way? What if it was expected that academics would maintain the wikipedia
pages in their subject areas. Yes, actually I *was* brought up on too
many sci-fi stories containing giant, all knowing, beneficent computers
called multivac. :)
Naive thought for the day. If academics are encouraged to publish by
their institution, and are paid by their unis for writing journal
articles, then why don't unis pay them to edit journals too? And why
don't the unis pay to print and distribute journals? Then the journals
would be in the hands of academics, not for profit companies.
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
PhD Candidate
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics
University of Queensland
religionbazaar.blogspot.com
Chas S. Clifton wrote:
>
> On Nov 9, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Morgan Leigh wrote:
>>
>> All uni's should be able to access all journals. Otherwise we are making
>> learning contingent on income.
>
> I can't speak to "all" journals, but with Equinox Publishing, a library
> subscription includes online access to the journal from all
> Internet addresses associated with the school. I believe that that
> practice is common with other publishers as well.
>
> So on a per-user basis, the cost is actually quite low.
>
> And then you have the various searchable databases
> that give university students and faculty access, often instantaneous,
> to articles from other journals as well.
>
> As any librarian on the list will attest, however, the issue of which
> journals to subscribe to is constantly being negotiated between
> the library and the various academic departments.
>
>> For example, the rules say that if there
>> have been three instances of revert and restore in any twenty four hour
>> period, arbitration must be sought.
>
> Twenty-four hours? So you have would have to "camp out"
> at your computer to create the circumstances in which to
> force arbitration? But if you reverted the entry in a more
> leisurely fashion, you could escape? Just wondering. ;-)
>
> Information may want to be free, but editors, printers,
> database compilers, and the postal service all want cash,
> and that is just reality.
>
> Chas
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