[Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Medaille und Academy

[David Goodman]

We at Wikipedia are not by ourselves going to reform or replace the
reward structure of the academic world.

The suggestion I have recently been making, is that when someone in
the academic world wants to write something general, they publish one
version under their name , at least on their  own website, but  more
formally if applicable,  and use another to start or add to or replace
a  Wikipedia article, and then not get too concerned what people do
with it in detail, but keep an eye on it in general.

It would really be great if a few people publishing review articles,
or, even better,  textbooks,  were to do this. they should think of it
as a supplemental  opportunity to diffuse their work very
widely--especially in translation, for very few are likely to
themselves prepare multiple language versions for publication? once a
good article is in one Wikipedia, others will copy it.

And the response to user case 1 (the deWP article on  Roman (novel) )
is to suggest to the publisher that they regard it as a rough
draft--and, of course, to say so at the start.



On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:13:56 +0100, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hello all,
> <...>
>> I think it is very important for us to understand the difficulties
>> academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian community. And maybe
>> we should rethink about our strategy and approach on working with
>> academics.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Ting
>>
>
> Just today accidentally Daniel Mietchen started the page on exactly the
> same topic
>
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Top_ten_reasons_why_academics_do_not_contribute_to_Wikipedia
>
> Input is highly  welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
>
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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