2012/11/8 koltzenburg@w4w.net
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.
Nice comment, koltzenburg.
A journal about research done by using wikis would have a very large scope. In fact, reviewers with knowledge on wikis/wikipedia/etc would probably had little to the review process. For example, if I use a wiki for education, the journal would need reviewers with expertise on education process. And an editor able to deal with it. It applies to every field of science.
The question is, is it feasible? It's not usual for traditional journals
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?
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