On 17/12/2007, Dirk Riehle dirk@riehle.org wrote:
We're not talking about referencing Wikipedia in an academic paper, we're talking about publishing a Wikipedia article in an academic journal.
That wasn't exactly clear to me from the original request:
Yes, but the email in question wasn't replying to the original request, it was replying to my email.
Why would you want to take a Wikipedia article and publish it in a journal?
Conceivably that could be done in journals focussed on surveys, but most rules are stacked against you/WP.
Personally, I would rather go to the web and take a look at the original myself.
There may be some value of validating the article through journal publication, but honestly, I'm not sure about the value of that. I for one haven't read a journal focussed on surveys for a long time. At least in computer science, there way too many write-only journals and conferences anyway.
I think that's the value Fred was looking for. I don't know how effective it would be.