If a researcher has new results in a particular field, a published, surprising research
finding that confounds expectations, I think it might be understandable why they might
feel most passionate and most knowledgeable about those new findings and might want to
share them inside a Wikipedia article.
That is all I said. I did not say they could not contribute.
I do think that it would be very strange to insist that a researcher can't insert a
fact and a (self-citing) reference into an article because that would be a COI. But if
that is how it is, then I would like to know. And I also feel that if one of the goals of
the Wikimedia Foundation is to encourage more academics to edit Wilkipedia, then having a
clear policy on this is rather important, and these questions that I am asking here is me
trying to find out what the policy and technical data-crunching possibilities are with
respect to self-citing and student/colleague citing.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-…
With best wishes
Jen
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On 10 Jul 2014, at 19:14, Wjhonson
<wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
Which is rather a downer for the professor, because this means they are forbidden to
write about the things they are most passionate and knowledgeable about.)