We at Wikipedia are not by ourselves going to reform or replace the reward structure of the academic world.
The suggestion I have recently been making, is that when someone in the academic world wants to write something general, they publish one version under their name , at least on their own website, but more formally if applicable, and use another to start or add to or replace a Wikipedia article, and then not get too concerned what people do with it in detail, but keep an eye on it in general. It would really be great if a few people publishing review articles, or, even better, textbooks, were to do this. they should think of it as a supplemental opportunity to diffuse their work very widely--especially in translation, for very few are likely to themselves prepare multiple language versions for publication? once a good article is in one Wikipedia, others will copy it. And the response to user case 1 (the deWP article on Roman (novel) ) is to suggest to the publisher that they regard it as a rough draft--and, of course, to say so at the start. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:13:56 +0100, Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Hello all, > <...> >> I think it is very important for us to understand the difficulties >> academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian community. And maybe >> we should rethink about our strategy and approach on working with >> academics. >> >> Greetings >> Ting >> > > Just today accidentally Daniel Mietchen started the page on exactly the > same topic > > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Top_ten_reasons_why_academics_do_not_contribute_to_Wikipedia > > Input is highly welcome. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
