[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: the Journal

[FT2]

Hm. I'd assumed that any formal citation would link to a specific history
version. That's still the best way. If it isn't going to do so then you'd
have to have "edition dated MM-DD-YYYY" on different pages. In any event,
you'd archive the various peer reviews and link them from the discussion
page or such, so those wouldn't be lost.

Reasons for keeping just one page:


   - A formal citation to a WikiJournal should *always* be to a permalink,
   because inherently the current version may change (thats what a wiki is). So
   links will always work.
   - It's always up to date with latest knowledge and can be corrected or
   improved (subject to peer review).
   - It allows people to DIFF between versions and easily see what's been
   changed, which is phenomenally useful - imagine looking at a paper on some
   topic, and being able to see what's changed between any peer reviewed
   editions.

FT2


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:44 AM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 9/14/2009 1:30:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ft2.wiki at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> > 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.>>
>
> If you allow the paper to be updated, than all the old peer-review, votes,
> and other attachments have to be blanked out.  Do you see that?  Let's say
> the old paper has a trust level of 8.4 out of 10, with three reviewers and
> 124 votes of "great" or however its going to work.  Plus a dozen inbound
> links
> citing and worse *quoting* it.  Now all of that gets chucked in the trash.
> All the inbound links no longer reflect anything.  It's a mess.  And all
> that review work is also lost.
>
> Will
>
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