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:Suggested Improvements
From AcaWiki
This is a page for discussion of improvements.
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DOI bot
- Adopt wikipedia's bot to check and enrich metadata
BibTeX Import
Template hooks: Check each summary as it's added
Upon upload or add of a summary, check for the presence and absence of different kinds of information. See Citizendium's templates as an example.
- Check whether summary exists, if not add a tag or category like "needs summary"
- If there are no tags, add a category like "needs tags"
- If there's no DOI but there's a title and author, indicate which info is missing
Interface
- Semantic Drilldown, which we use, has nice functionality, but is complex and hard to use. Can we clarify what makes it difficult, and improve the interface?
Welcome Template
Signature needs work, see discussion start at User_talk:Daniel_Mietchen#About_the_Welcome_Template
