On 22 January 2012 22:54, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So this can mean very much for scientific research.
For example,
imagine if there are two mathematicians in the world interested in the
same, very deep math concept, but they don't know each other. How do
we let them meet and collaborate with each other? With a comment
section under that math concept's Wikipedia article.
Take another example. Imagine there are two medical researchers
pursuing the same, very novel but very rarely known approach to a
major disease, but they don't know each other. How do we let them meet
and collaborate with each other? With a comment section under that
approach's Wikipedia article.
That's why I said this is of strategic interest to Wikipedia and the humankind.
They can do what academics have always done: read each other's
published works and go to conferences. If a subject is so obscure that
only a handle of researchers are involved in it, then it probably
isn't sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article anyway.