On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't watched the profession, but the sentence "students were required to publish their papers in Wikipedia" makes me cringe. One can only hope the professors introduced them to (or understood) the norms and policies of the site, and didn't require original research...
/me vouches for the tension between the individual paper as a product and the collaborative participative wiki as a community and a process. at some point you have to choose between one or the other model and it is tricky if you dont know which youre doing up front - especially for the co-authors. j