A brief summary of the recent develoments is now in the new Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-09-26/News_an... .
Daniel
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Goran Milovanovic goran.s.milovanovic@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
the idea on having a peer-reviewed journal specifically related to Wikimedia/Wikipedia needed research that Milos and I have discussed was, of course, to start small.
The idea is to start with a set of dedicated pages that would publish Wikimedia related research, focusing on the needs generated by the community, Rcom or the WMF, and trying to establish consistency of standards and some at least minimal periodicity. The publishing process would involve peer review from the beginning. I don't believe it would be hard to establish a journal editorial in this case.
Of course, the merger with initiatives such as Wikimedia Summer of Research is a natural way to go.
Then we would see what happens. If it happens to be useful (I bet) and sustainable (the hard part: sustainable in terms of periodicity, norms and quality), why not start thinking bigger than the initial small and see if we can push it to a level of a significant journal in the fields of socio-technical systems, user-computer interaction, online collaboration and similar.
Best, Goran
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello, The idea of a journal is very sound by itself. I doubt that Wikiversity will be helpful. Kind regards Ziko
2011/9/22 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 14:38, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Would this be a logical thing to have as part of Wikiversity?
Peer review does seem to me very like a Featured article process but with credentialled reviewers.
Huh. Wikiversity has its own problems. Since Cormac Lawler went out of WV, its integrity is very questionable. However, I agree that organized boost into the right direction is something which WV needs.
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