On 8/31/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
OTOH, I've often wondered if setting up an academic wiki would be something to attract people. It could use Mediawiki and GFDL and have similar content guidelines to Wikipedia, just use signed articles, allow article ownership and allow original research. The academic barrier would guard against non-accredited cranks if not the accredited ones ;-) Such a thing even be usable as referenceable source material for Wikipedia articles. I'm not saying this is a good idea, for Wikipedia, for readers or for civilisation in general, but I do wonder if and how it would work.
I think stuff like that already exists in certain fields. I seem to have already come across one for semantics when I was looking for the semanticwiki.
It makes sense to split by fields too - there's really no reason for linguists to share a wiki with medical researchers. Except that since every field has a cross-over area with several other fields, and...you can see what I'm getting at.
Steve