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(a)yahoo.com>
The magazine
RNA
biology<http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/rnabiology>
announced that they are requiring researchers publishing
research on families of RNA molecules in the journal to write a
Wikipedia<http://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
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