[Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

[Yao Ziyuan]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 22:54, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So this can mean very much for scientific research. For example,
>> imagine if there are two mathematicians in the world interested in the
>> same, very deep math concept, but they don't know each other. How do
>> we let them meet and collaborate with each other? With a comment
>> section under that math concept's Wikipedia article.
>>
>> Take another example. Imagine there are two medical researchers
>> pursuing the same, very novel but very rarely known approach to a
>> major disease, but they don't know each other. How do we let them meet
>> and collaborate with each other? With a comment section under that
>> approach's Wikipedia article.
>>
>> That's why I said this is of strategic interest to Wikipedia and the humankind.
>
> They can do what academics have always done: read each other's
> published works and go to conferences. If a subject is so obscure that
> only a handle of researchers are involved in it, then it probably
> isn't sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article anyway.

That's exactly an "egg first or chicken first" problem. Great
discoveries almost always come from rarely known ideas.

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