Abe <arafi(a)umich.edu> said:
How do you create a space where scholars can compete?
Since the prizes in
academia are relevance and prestige, and since relevance/presitge are
measured by the number of people who are citing your work, Wikipedia could
allow users to cite scholarly works in articles, and track those
citations competitively.
You're talking about Open Access journals. A good overview is here:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
This is a good directory of Open Access journals:
http://www.doaj.org/
I'm not convinced that Wikimedia stepping into this space is good for either
Wikimedia or academic journals.
~ESP