Dear colleagues,
Last week I attended the parisian Open Access week main event that was
held at the Unesco. I evoked briefly the migntable project of a Wiki
Research Journal that was discussed in september (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas
). It was received with a good deal of enthusiasm, both from
scientists and from Unesco representatives.
So far, this concept seems very likely to materialize : only a bit of
publicity could sufficed to attract several high-quality submissions.
Three issues remain, nevertheless to be solved :
*Technical issue : we probably need a specific wiki. Whereas not
highly sophisticated, it should perhaps include some reading functions
in order to make the journal main content easy to read and to refer to.
*Scientific issue : the journal requires rather a broad and definite
general thematic, in order to receive diverse and, yet, coherent
submissions. Perhaps a focus on epistemological topics (open access…)
or communication topics (wiki-system and so on…) could deem
appropriate, as it would allow to go beyond disciplinary barriers.
*Financial issue : a small grant from the WMF would be enough to
start. As the journal is to rely on volunteer work, all we have to do
is to ensure the technical bare necessities.
PCL
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