Il giorno mer 5 giu 2019 alle ore 12:00 John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com ha scritto:
One reason; reach.
In academia reach -per se- is not a big deal, while impact is.
Reach leads to impact. You can't get impact without reach, but reach in non-scientific communities does not necessarily turn into reach in scientific communities.
Apart from the hype I wouldn't releate reach and scientific impact. Most of research community is forced to seek for impact, bibliometric indicators and abiding by the publish or perish principle.
There are nothing that blocks Wikipedia from doing peer review. (It has implicit peer review.) What you propose for WikiJournal is to make peer review a policy. That does not in itself turn articles into good research.
I disagree with this, Wikipedia doesn't make original research by definition. I concur we have something similar to peer review, though ours is less "autorithy-centered".
Vito