> 1. Is anybody aware of examples for academic canonization by using > Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia projects)? My hypothesis is that Wikipedia > could be potentially used for this purpose, namely when many relevant > researchers discuss a certain article and eventually come to new > conclusions, definitions etc.
I'm afraid for an hypothesis, that's a tad vague, but I know from personal experience that Wikipedia is a great way to find references on a topic of interest. For example, the article on Semantic Networks is good, but the reference (currently No 7) to the Steyvers and Tenenbaum paper... wow, that's a classic! PS. The same article is also found on page 1 of Google Scholar results for the search term "semantic networks", but interestingly, nowhere to be found in the results for "semantic network". _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
