- Is anybody aware of examples for academic canonization by using
Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia projects)? My hypothesis is that Wikipedia could be potentially used for this purpose, namely when many relevant researchers discuss a certain article and eventually come to new conclusions, definitions etc.
I'm afraid for an hypothesis, that's a tad vague, but I know from personal experience that Wikipedia is a great way to find references on a topic of interest. For example, the article on Semantic Networks is good, but the reference (currently No 7) to the Steyvers and Tenenbaum paper... wow, that's a classic!
PS. The same article is also found on page 1 of Google Scholar results for the search term "semantic networks", but interestingly, nowhere to be found in the results for "semantic network".