[WikiEN-l] Scientists told "publish in Wikipedia or else"

[phoebe ayers]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Larsen
<larsen.thomas.h at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So, if I read this correctly, anybody wanting to get an article
> published in this particular journal will need to write an article for
> Wikipedia first?
>
> That's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard.
<snip>

So that's what I thought. And then I read it more closely. It is only
articles from a certain section of the journal -- those that describe
RNA families. These are not experiments, hypothesis, trials... they
want to use Wikipedia to document genes, basically -- something we're
doing anyway.  And it sounds like active folks from the microbiology
project are supporting them.

-- phoebe