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<blockquote><font face="Comic Sans MS, Trebuchet MS, Consolas">''Science is already a wiki if you look at it a certain way. It’s just a highly inefficient one — the incremental edits are made in papers instead of wikispace, and significant effort is expended to recapitulate existing knowledge in a paper in order to support the one to three new assertions made in any one paper.</font> — [http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/07/publishing_science_on_the_web.php John Wilbanks]. Illustration: [http://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=en&q=%22magnetic+resonance+imaging+is+a%22 papers] and [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Magnetic_resonance_imaging wikispace].''</blockquote> | <blockquote><font face="Comic Sans MS, Trebuchet MS, Consolas">''Science is already a wiki if you look at it a certain way. It’s just a highly inefficient one — the incremental edits are made in papers instead of wikispace, and significant effort is expended to recapitulate existing knowledge in a paper in order to support the one to three new assertions made in any one paper.</font> — [http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/07/publishing_science_on_the_web.php John Wilbanks]. Illustration: [http://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=en&q=%22magnetic+resonance+imaging+is+a%22 papers] and [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Magnetic_resonance_imaging wikispace].''</blockquote> | ||
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Wikis as platforms for Open Access publishing · Prototypes · Editorial policies · Guided tour ·
Obstacles · Alternatives · Outlook · Summary · Slides · Video · Q & A · Demo
Science is already a wiki if you look at it a certain way. It’s just a highly inefficient one — the incremental edits are made in papers instead of wikispace, and significant effort is expended to recapitulate existing knowledge in a paper in order to support the one to three new assertions made in any one paper. — John Wilbanks. Illustration: papers and wikispace.
- Wikis can be used, in principle, for any aspect of scholarly communication, as detailed in this comparison of wiki- and paper-based communication systems and the related blog post.
- Examples exist for all steps of the research cycle, except successful applications to major funders (see this overview for some attempts)
- Benchmark: English Wikipedia