[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: the Journal

[FT2]

I have an old 1900's or late 1800's encyclopedia here. It says that the sun
must be powered by some unknown process - they knew it couldn't be fossil
fuels, but radioactivity and fusion were yet to be discovered then.

If someone writes a paper and knowledge later advances, let the paper be
updated; provided the update is also peer reviewed it'll mean the topic's
paper is always latest knowledge. Not how it traditionally works, but in a
number of ways, better.

FT2



On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:27 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 9/13/2009 3:19:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ft2.wiki at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> > Papers are reviewed annually, or upon major new information, so they
> >    become a living document -- the paper on the higgs boson as it is now,
> > and
> >    the same paper as it was a year, 2 years ago, showing the advance of
> >    knowledge and correcting itself as time passes and knowledge
> develops.>>
> >
> >
>
> I would say that by this we'd have to mean that a paper cannot change.  In
> that way it has to behave like a print version.  Once it's set, than it
> can't change, otherwise the voting and review process would no longer match
> the
> current state of the paper.
>
> Rather, like print, if a new paper is submitted, even by the same author on
> the same topic, it has to be a new entry in "this month's" journal, not a
> modification of a now-historical version.
>
> Will
>
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