If a researcher has new results in a particular field, a published, surprising research finding that confounds expectations, I think it might be understandable why they might feel most passionate and most knowledgeable about those new findings and might want to share them inside a Wikipedia article.
That is all I said. I did not say they could not contribute. I do think that it would be very strange to insist that a researcher can't insert a fact and a (self-citing) reference into an article because that would be a COI. But if that is how it is, then I would like to know. And I also feel that if one of the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation is to encourage more academics to edit Wilkipedia, then having a clear policy on this is rather important, and these questions that I am asking here is me trying to find out what the policy and technical data-crunching possibilities are with respect to self-citing and student/colleague citing. http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-contributions With best wishes Jen Sent from my mobile > On 10 Jul 2014, at 19:14, Wjhonson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Which is rather a downer for the professor, because this means they are > forbidden to write about the things they are most passionate and > knowledgeable about.) _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
