Hi Piotr, hi all,
Piotr, I like your idea about instituting awards because awards may help younger
researchers in particular to
try something new that their bosses are not likely to have tried out by themselves, e.g.
contributing
scientific or otherwise research-related stuff to Wikipedia
in my opinion, any idea that helps academics accept open science more wholeheartedly will
in the long run
benefit Wikipedia and the wikification of scientific publishing
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:48:27 -0400, Piotr Konieczny wrote
[...]
If we want to encourage cooperation between academia
and Wikipedia, we
have to make it worthwhile for academics to contribute to Wikipedia -
worthwhile in terms of their careers. One of the ways to do so would be
to have professional organizations for our respective professions
institute an award for popularization of the respective discipline on
Wikipedia.
let me illustrate this by an example: two words in your post ("for our respective
professions" and "award")
made me think I might point you to a contest for a scientific award that is currently
running, until 31 May
which is hosted by an open access journal in Leukemia research et al. (Cellular Therapy
and Transplantation,
http://www.ctt-journal.com)
the contest's first phase was run in a discussion forum on the journal's site with
a subsequent traditional
upload of papers to be reviewed by a Jury (whose names were publicized in advance), with
the best six
papers to be published in that journal afterwards
phase II of the contest is run in a blog, with the blog comments being potentially
rewardable (by a prize in
money, by votes etc.) and each comment getting its own doi
http://maximowaward.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/blog-comment-contest-10-31-may…
terminology/
the organizers think that such a contest is likely to be the first step for researchers in
this field to use Web
2.0 for scientiific purposes and in an open science frame.
the next step would be to invite potential authors of this journal to contribute articles
in the format of Topic
Pages that could easily be "wikified" (thanks to Daniel's initiative, see
e.g. his recent mail
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2012-May/002124.html)
Q: does anyone know of similar initiatives in medicine or other fields that might help
speed up some kind of
habit change and maybe enhance new practices among researchers that get them closer to
Wikipedia? or
maybe of some specific criticism of any award in this regard?
thanks & cheers,
Claudia
koltzenburg(a)w4w.net