On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)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