[RCom-l] Peer reviewed journal?

[Daniel Mietchen]

A brief summary of the recent develoments is now in the new Signpost:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-09-26/News_and_notes#Academic_journals_consider_partnering_with_Wikipedia
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Daniel

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Goran Milovanovic
<goran.s.milovanovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the idea on having a peer-reviewed journal specifically related to
> Wikimedia/Wikipedia needed research that Milos and I have discussed
> was, of course, to start small.
>
> The idea is to start with a set of dedicated pages that would publish
> Wikimedia related research, focusing on the needs generated by the
> community, Rcom or the WMF, and trying to establish consistency of
> standards and some at least minimal periodicity. The publishing
> process would involve peer review from the beginning. I don't believe
> it would be hard to establish a journal editorial in this case.
>
> Of course, the merger with initiatives such as Wikimedia Summer of
> Research is a natural way to go.
>
> Then we would see what happens. If it happens to be useful (I bet) and
> sustainable (the hard part: sustainable in terms of periodicity, norms
> and quality), why not start thinking bigger than the initial small and
> see if we can push it to a level of a significant journal in the
> fields of socio-technical systems, user-computer interaction, online
> collaboration and similar.
>
> Best,
> Goran
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> The idea of a journal is very sound by itself. I doubt that
>> Wikiversity will be helpful.
>> Kind regards
>> Ziko
>>
>>
>> 2011/9/22 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 14:38, WereSpielChequers
>>> <werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Would this be a logical thing to have as part of Wikiversity?
>>>>
>>>> Peer review does seem to me very like a Featured article process but with
>>>> credentialled reviewers.
>>>
>>> Huh. Wikiversity has its own problems. Since Cormac Lawler went out of
>>> WV, its integrity is very questionable. However, I agree that
>>> organized boost into the right direction is something which WV needs.
>>>
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