I think that we could reach out to a number of existing high impact IS and human-computer interaction journals and see if we can talk them into being more lenient in open accessing Wikipedia related articles. That way, scholars will pursue their career objectives in an efficient manner, we benefit from using high-quality peer-review infrastructure and the research will still be available to our community at large. The journals do not necessarily gain that much from such a deal except for increased eyeballs to certain articles but the scholars could benefit by receiving additional citations.
best, Diederik On 2011-09-27, at 4:28 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Dario said we should consider less costly alternatives, and that's where I'm thinking that Wikiversity comes in. This is a wikimedia project that encourages original research and supplies all the necessary IT resources. The only slight issues are that it would all be unpaid voluntary work, and the peer review would be done on wiki much like the reviewing at [[wp:FAC]] on wikipedia.
I'm aware that Wikiversity has a poor reputation in the movement, but I don't think that should prevent something worthwhile being done there.
No-one has yet put a ballpark cost on a different business model, but I'm not expecting it to be something we could easily get the WMF or a chapter to fund.
Regards
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