[FC-discuss] AcaWiki community manager wanted

[Mike Linksvayer]

Hi there. Hopefully this will be of interest to you or someone you
know passionate about open access and wikis -- please pass along.
AcaWiki is the new project of Neeru Paharia, who some of you may have
met during her time with Creative Commons. I think it has lots of
potential.

Mike


AcaWiki (acawiki.org) is a new not-for-profit project with the mission
to make summaries of academic papers and literature reviews accessible
to the world. Today, most academic papers are not accessible to the
general public due to restrictive copyright policies held by
publishers. Because of these policies, most of the public is locked
out of accessing cutting-edge research. Furthermore many academic
papers are written with complicated jargon that’s difficult for
outsiders to understand.

To make academic knowledge accessible, we have built a user-friendly
semantic wiki that enables people to post human-readable summaries of
academic papers and literature reviews to acawiki.org. All content on
the site is available under a Creative Commons Attribution license to
guarantee maximum access throughout the world.

At this point AcaWiki is being run by a small group of dedicated
volunteers; however starting a community wiki takes serious time and
effort. We are looking to hire a part-time Community Manager to build
community, culture, and content during the site’s first six months of
operations. While our success is surely against the odds given the
entrenched nature of a closed-access culture, we are passionate and
determined to make the project a success and would be thrilled to find
someone who shares our enthusiasm for open access.

If interested please a short letter of interest and your resume to
acawikisummaries at gmail.com