Talk:Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Wiki Education assignment: Writing 2 - Digital Futures

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 February 2022 and 27 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Funkymonkey69000 (article contribs).

Great content but needs editing

This article is a good start but includes a bunch of information probably more appropriate for the Aaron Swartz article and has general issues with WP:TONE. I've made a first stab at the historical context section and the lead and will edit a few other things. Others should do work on it. The content is well cited and the topic feels clearly notable. It really just needs to be cleaned up and polished. —mako๛ 00:33, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Alright! I've finished a pretty thorough pass and am much more happy with the state of the article. One major change I made was to rework the article to reframe Swartz as the publisher of the manifesto rather than the author. While the manifest was published on Swartz's blog and most sources attribute sole authorship to Swartz, AFAIK Swartz never took credit for authorship and I've heard several suggestions that it may have been jointly authored.

What is clear is that the actual authorship of the document was a contentious and debated issue in United States v. Aaron Swartz where the government argued that the manifesto was written by Swartz and demonstrated Swartz's motive for downloading JSTOR articles and his plans for the downloaded articles. I have added text making this clear along with a reference to a published book of Swartz's writing where this context is all made clear both in a short introduction to the manifesto itself by the book's editors (full disclosure: I am one of editors) as well as in the introduction to the first section of the book on free culture in which the GOAM is included.

If anybody disagrees, I'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss any changes first.—mako๛ 17:41, 16 October 2024 (UTC)