Hoi, I am quite convinced that this is a good faith attempt to bring more science to the masses. I wanted to highlight the issues and learn from the people who proposed this how they want to deal with this. When you read a scientific paper, 90%+ in a paper is explaining what is already known any way. When the idea is to make sure that these basic facts are represented well in Wikipedia, we have a real winner on our hands.
Implied in the proposal is that these summaries will be published under the CC-by-sa because without it, the publication of these summaries in Wikipedia are impossible anyway.
When it becomes clear that Wikipedia is not the right place for the publication of these summaries, the WMF could create a new project for Wikipedia style summaries of scientific papers. These summaries would be published without anonymity and with a clear connection to the scientific paper. In this way, we have a resource that people can refer to in wikipedia both as a source and for further reading.
A project like this will imho do the status of the WMF a world of good and, give an extra push to the Open Access movement because these papers will bring science to our public and our public is the world. Thanks, GerardM
2008/12/22 Jacky PB dpotop1@yahoo.com
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:
- 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
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