Le 5 nov. 2012 à 01:57, Ward Cunningham ward@c2.com a écrit :
I wonder if a better place to innovate might be in the conduct of research, rather than the reporting, review and publication of research?
While wiki speeds collaboration within a community, the research literature favors long-lasting contributions outside the community. Wiki or wiki-like collaboration tools might be better applied to stimulating and conducting high-quality research that will then usefully feed existing publications.
I may sound a bit overractive, but can't we do both? I would easily imagine the following two-way system: *A wiki-laboratory, which hosts quick and less quick projects in progress. That could also include some reactive analysis by social scientists to recent wikimedian and collaborative knowledge phenomena. *A wiki-journal, that should give a definitive and quotable form to the preceding researches and enlarge the discussions to wider disciplinary debates. By publishing external submissions it could give some new food for thought to the wiki-laboratory. The relationships between the two structures would be a relevant analogy to the mutually-rewarding dialogue between the practical and theoretical side of scientific research.
On Nov 4, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Chitu Okoli wrote:
On one hand, I agree that readership is very important. On the other hand, I don't believe it is the most critical issue. I think the most critical matter in starting a new journal is to *attract high-quality submissions* --that is, to get researchers who do high quality work to submit some of their best research to the journal. If that can be achieved, then a high readership is virtually guaranteed. Other benefits should readily follow: high citations, ISI listing, etc.
I've been reading all the comments on this thread carefully, and I see two distinct issues that are being mixed into one: (1) a new journal dedicated to research about wikis, and maybe also about related phenomena; and (2) a journal with new kind of wiki-based peer review system. I think it is best to rather keep these issues distinct.
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