STOP SOPA ☣ STOP RWA
Two bills are making their way through the U.S. Congress that would have highly negative consequences for AcaWiki and the public good. Please take action against both.
Many large sites are blacked out January 18 to spur action against SOPA. Visit americancensorship.org to take action against this bill, which is a censorship and security risk for the entire internet. Wikimedia's General Counsel explains how SOPA would hurt wikis.
RWA would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online. This is unjust and would specifically harm AcaWiki by greatly reducing the number of people with access to important literature — access is required to summarize. Please tell congresspeople to oppose RWA.
See AcaWiki:SOPA-RWA for planning and discussion of this message.
AcaWiki:Communications
From AcaWiki
The best form of communication is often to dive in and edit a summary. You can also leave a question on the "discussion" page of a summary or the discussion page of an individual AcaWiki user. You can see AcaWiki:How to use for more details.
Of course, sometimes off-wiki communications help. Here are a few options.
Mailing lists
- http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acawiki-announce is a very low volume list if to subscribe to if you just want announcements about AcaWiki developments.
- http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acawiki-general is an open discussion list for AcaWiki contributors -- AcaWikians?
IRC
IRC users interested in AcaWiki should gather in #acawiki on freenode.
For those not familar with IRC have a look at the Wikipedia definition and download a software program for your operating-system so you can participate. You can also use a browser-based IRC.
Microblogs
You can follow and message @acawiki at http://twitter.com/acawiki and http://identi.ca/acawiki
News Archive
Other Social Networks
Reporting Bugs and Suggesting Features
- Please file to Bugzilla
- List of Open Bugs and Feature Requests.
Who is Running AcaWiki?
Our general email address is admin@acawiki.org
You can also contact Fabricatorz, our former part-time community liaison, Jodi Schneider or our founder Neeru Paharia. For more information, read about who's behind AcaWiki on our FAQ.
