On 8/31/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
OTOH, I've often wondered if setting up an
academic wiki would be
something to attract people. It could use Mediawiki and GFDL and have
similar content guidelines to Wikipedia, just use signed articles,
allow article ownership and allow original research. The academic
barrier would guard against non-accredited cranks if not the
accredited ones ;-) Such a thing even be usable as referenceable
source material for Wikipedia articles. I'm not saying this is a good
idea, for Wikipedia, for readers or for civilisation in general, but I
do wonder if and how it would work.
I think stuff like that already exists in certain fields. I seem to
have already come across one for semantics when I was looking for the
semanticwiki.
It makes sense to split by fields too - there's really no reason for
linguists to share a wiki with medical researchers. Except that since
every field has a cross-over area with several other fields, and...you
can see what I'm getting at.
Steve