Hi,
I offer my personal opinion for this.
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:59:45 +0000
From: Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Journal?
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Dear Wiki-Research-L,
Yes, as Andrea said, the original idea proposed was
about a new journal
*for* Wikipedia but it seems the consensus is that there is far more
interest in a journal *about* wikim/pedia research. To that end, I'd like
to gauge the opinion of the authors here about the viability of such a
journal. I have sounded out a couple of university presses and they're
interested in discussing the idea of funding and hosting a "Journal of
Wikipedia Research" (or title to that effect). So, I was wondering if the
people here could say whether such a thing would be a) viable and b) what
factors would be important to you personally in being interested in such
a publication.
I believe the Journal about Wikipedia is more realistic than the Journal
"for" Wikipedia.
For example:
- Do you think that a Journal of Wikipedia Research would be an unhealthy
competition against WikiSym, or a boost for it?
A Journal of Wikipedia research
would be helpful to WikiSym, and make it
like conference-Journal pattern should be more attractive to encourage
people.
- Would the reputation/location of the hosting
university be a factor for
you?
I will care the achievement of the hosting university in technologies,
statistics and sociologies.
- or, would the people on the editorial committee be a
more important
factor?
Yes, indeed.
- would you prefer to see a journal that was entirely
an
aggregation/synthesis of other publications, or entirely filled with
content published no where else, or, would you be happy with a mixture of
sections (new work, re-publications, syntheses, reviews...)
I prefer to see entirely unpublished works in this Journal, if possible. I
know, it will affect the frequency of publication, but taking it 4 issues
per year, the quality of Journal is still high.
- Would the frequency of publication be important to
you? - Would you
prefer something that only published in your particular research field
(e.g. statistical/sociological/computer-scinece) or would you be happy
with a variety of research fields being included in the one edition?
It should be more possible to put them all in one edition, and I always
read other fields paper when I did literature review in my area. The
research is crossing in Wiki study.
- Would it be more important to you to publish in
existing journals with an
established reputation or to publish in a journal with a scope that is
specific to Wikip/media (even though it's reputation would not yet be
established)?
Of course, these are all just exploratory/scoping
questions just to gauge
interest. The original idea that I had proposed was for a different thing,
but, if the research community here would like to see a journal created for
them (in some way/shape/form) and if you believe that such a thing would
help our field grow and develop - then I'm happy to try and help! :-)
Sincerely,
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
I know it is personal view, but I believe this area is worthy to publish
their academic contributions in a new Journal. As this research includes
many different research fields, I assume some of us have the same
experience that reading other fields paper when searched their own
literatures as me. so we wouldn't against to put all fields together.
Hope it is helpful.
Zeyi He
PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
University of York