The magazine RNA biologyhttp://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/rnabiology announced that they are requiring researchers publishing research on families of RNA molecules in the journal to write a Wikipediahttp://wikipedia.org/article summarising their findings.
As a scientist, I find this move dubious. Even if we overlook the problem posed by the NPOV policy of wikipedia, it seems that the magazine wants to outsource peer reviewing to a generalist site. As if hordes of geeks that know nothing or little of RNA biology can bring something in the scientific discussion.
From my POV, there are only 2 things that could make sense
here: 1. RNA biology creats its own specialized wiki where self-assumed experts can contribute. 2. Once an article is published, Wikipedia gets a right to use excerpts in its articles.
Dpotop