On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That's exactly an "egg first or chicken first" problem. Great discoveries almost always come from rarely known ideas. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
