Wikipedia articles are passively peer reviewed every time someone with knowledge of the
topic reads the article. Ideally, this would be the equal of scientific peer review. In
reality, most such people don’t bother giving feedback, or are unable to figure out how to
give feedback. Hopefully we can get better at encouraging and supporting such feedback in
the future.
I’ve systematically reviewed Wikipedia articles in the past, and I’ve also persuaded
others to do the same. However, systematic review isn’t the same as a formal review
through a journal.
It’s great to see that this article has been formally reviewed, although it is
disappointing to see how short the author list for the formal article is here, given how
many people have actually contributed to the article over the years.
Thanks,
Mike
On 3 Oct 2014, at 21:58, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Umm, no, they aren't - at least not in the way the
term is used in
scientific subjects.
Many articles are never reviewed in any systematic manner; in fact, that is
the overwhelming majority of our articles. Those that are formally
reviewed are reviewed in the context of meeting *Wikipedia* standards:
formatting, manual of style, reliable sources as references (as opposed to,
say, blogs). It doesn't contain most of the elements of peer review seen
for scientific papers.
Risker/Anne
On 3 October 2014 15:56, Erlend Bjørtvedt <erlend(a)wikimedia.no> wrote:
But remember: all Wikipedia articles are peer
reviewed......
Erlend Bjørtvedt
Den fredag 3. oktober 2014 skrev Vishnu <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> følgende:
Congratulations!
A great model that could be emulated by many of us across other
disciplines too.
Cheers,
Vishnu
On Friday 03 October 2014 04:54 AM, James Heilman wrote:
Article published by the journal Open Medicine
http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564
Will soon be pubmed indexed. Editorial regarding the efforts are here
http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/652/565
Hope these sorts of efforts will improve the reputation of Wikipedia and
the number of contributors. I guess we will see.
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