On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:50:52 +0000, Joe Corneli wrote [...]
This point from Claudia is important -- «keep in mind that we are not talking about a traditional journal here but about "a new research journal about Wikis and about research done by using Wikis"» -- however, I think it needs expansion, or we'll just end up with some kind of turn-crank solution.
To reframe that:
What's NOT going to be traditional about this journal?
what's your opinion on this, Joe & everyone?
Answer 1:
it will be non-traditional because it addresses not only wiki *software* but - see the second about - "a new research journal about Wikis and about research done by using Wikis"
the "research done by using Wikis" is non-traditional because it can be research in any field and articles would address many different research cultures, not just software-centered ones.
Answer 2:
articles are not "submitted" to the journal's editors but written openly on the journals' platform (and then maybe sent to a review process elsewhere as well as opening up to public review here)
for some background see a. Wikis in scholarly publishing. Daniel Mietchen, Gregor Hagedorn, Konrad Förstner, M Fabiana Kubke, Claudia Koltzenburg, Mark Hahnel, and Lyubomir Penev (2011). http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5891/version/1 b. Collaborative platforms for streamlining workflows in Open Science. Konrad U. Förstner, Gregor Hagedorn, Claudia Koltzenburg, M Fabiana Kubke and Daniel Mietchen (2011). Open Knowledge Conference OKCon2011, Berlin, 30 June /1 July 2011, http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-739/paper_...
what's evreyone else's answers to Joe's question?