On 22 January 2012 22:54, Yao Ziyuan <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
