Research: 'Sticky' rubber...[edit]
Hi,
this may seem like an unusual request, but do you still have any contacts with the Consumer Reports people?
I am asking because in trying to find out how to cure a problem with 'sticky' rubber surfaces in a mid 1990's construction toy set, I had in a cupboard, I'm finding some anecdotal accounts of other products with rubberised components becoming 'sticky' or degrading.
I was therefore interested in determining if this is indeed a widespread but known issue, and given you previous connections with CR I felt I should ask if you knew where might hold relevant articles.
ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:28, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
- @ShakespeareFan00: I have not worked with Consumer Reports since 2018 but I may be able to ask questions or identify relevant articles.
- Are you trying to fix a sticky mess, repair failing glue, or respond to degrading solid rubber?
- Consumer Reports typically focuses on conventional use of consumer products. 90s toys are probably out of scope, but tell me more and let me see if I can find publications.
- Also, this is kind of a mess, but I think Internet Archive now has scans of almost every Consumer Reports publication. See their gallery. Navigating Internet Archive is still difficult, but as a long term solution, the Internet Archive could be the channel by means of which we eventually surface CR content and all other magazines. They are doing this independently of Consumer Reports partnership. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:38, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
- Ideally clean up some old model tyres which were sticky to the touch, but not actually deformed yet (so most likely the third of the options you give_. I was wanting to determine if this was a widespread issue with certain types of plastic/rubber. It wasn't unexpected, as I've had other things degrade over time, like scroll wheels on mice, and a rubber pad on an old laptop ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:51, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
WP:AFC Helper News[edit]
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
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Inactive WikiProject Open/Open access task force[edit]
Hello, and thank you for your thanks! As I was looking at neighboring WikiProjects to WP:FOSS I found quite a lot related projects abandoned. I hope I haven't assumed wrongly the activity of the Open access task force. It seems you have been active there in the past - can you tell me some about how it declined there? And where most of the communication happened on the task force? Was it on it's talk page? GavriilaDmitriev (talk • they/them) 17:00, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- @GavriilaDmitriev: Most people who are interested in openness want to put their interest into practice, not discuss the philosophy of it. WikiProject Open and the related WikiProject Open Access are about the philosophy.
- Wikidata's most popular project in count of contributors and depth of engagement is meta:WikiCite and d:Wikidata:WikiProject Source Metadata. In both of those projects, cataloging open access research is a priority, and doing data modeling for related research tools is very popular also. There are hundreds of people engaged in this through multiple unrelated projects. A large project with several hundred contributors is d:Wikidata:WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/Participants.
- You marked the English Wikipedia WikiProject Open Access as inactive. It is correct that there is no active community there, but if there were a way to mark that the activity has moved to Wikidata, then that would be more accurate. I do not know how to communicate that. There is activity on Wikipedia but it takes forms which are hard to see. Bluerasberry (talk) 17:35, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
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