Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war/An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities

The following was copied from Talk:February 15, 2003 anti-war protest/Archive1, it records email corespondance between JK the unwise and the authors of "The February 15 Worldwide Protests against a War in Iraq: An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities" in which permision is granted to quote from the paper.

An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities

I have come accross an interesting article relating to the day called "The February 15 Worldwide Protests against a War in Iraq: An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities" at nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/conf/CAWM2003/Papers/Verhulst.pdf (PDF file). In a note at the top of the article it states that there is to be "NO QUOTING/CITING WITHOUT AUTHORS’ PERMISSION" so I emailed the authors asking permission and had a positive responce. Please find bellow the my email and the responce.--JK the unwise 10:28, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Dear Joris,

I am writing to you because I have been, with the help of some others, creating an article on the global anti-war demonstration that occured on Febuary 15th 2003 for the online encycopedia, www.wikipedia.co.uk and whilst searching for information I came accross your article "The February 15 Worldwide Protests against a War in Iraq: An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities" at http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/conf/CAWM2003/Papers/Verhulst.pdf

Your article states that it is not be be qouted with out permission so firstly I request permission to quote your article. Secondly, I invite you to examine the article and help us make it accurate and comprehensive.

Wikipedia is a multilingual Web-based fee-content encycopedia. It is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing articles to be changed by anyone with access to a web browser. The project began on Ja! nuary 15, 2001 and is operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia has more than 910,000 articles in the English-language version; and has more than 770,000 registered users.

You can read and edit the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15%2C_2003_anti-war_protest the discusion page for which can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:February_15%2C_2003_anti-war_protest

Yours sinserly,
Joseph Kisolos-Ssonko
(I edit on wikipeida as JK the Unwise)

P.S: for more information on Wikipeida see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

Reply

Dear Joseph,

I have talked about it with my co-author, and we both see no problem in you quoting us. In the course of 2006 we will publish a reader specifically on F15, but I am not allowed to send you (part of) its content. As soon as it is in the course of publication I can...
All the best & good luck
joris

Wording of JK's email

"fee-content"? -- Jmabel | Talk 05:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding is that they are not declering their paper to be free content, rather they are just giving us permission to quote limited sections of it in the same way we can qoute any copyrighted work.--JK the unwise 11:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to your oddly worded "Wikipedia is a multilingual Web-based fee-content encycopedia." "Encycopedia" is probably harmless, but "fee-content" is misleading. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:22, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I be honest I copy-pasted that stuff from the article Wikipedia (which currently opens with the line "Wikipedia is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia") without much examination. You might want to take it up with them.--JK the unwise 13:14, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have just realised what you are getting at. D'oh! I will be more carefull with my spelling in future. For the record they are typo's. By "Fee content" I ment "Free content" and by "Encycopedia" I ment "Encyclopedia".--JK the unwise 14:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem; we didn't expect any fees ;). Joris