This looks like a genuinely positive experiment that could lead to very good results.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Larsen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for clarifying. > > > This is an excellent experiment. With Wikipedia's open edit process I am > > confident that the plan will adjust as it is implemented and I, for one > > would like to see more academic journals take on this tact of publishing > > their results under GFDL (on Wikipedia or their own journal). Knowledge > is > > power only if there is access to that knowledge. > > The issue I have, though, is that I feel that Wikipedia is doing a bad > job of giving people "knowledge". Many scientists (I would assume--the > proof of the concept is in the editing, I suppose) would agree with my > position. These people might object to having their "knowledge" placed > on Wikipedia to be torn apart and/or built up by the ignorant masses > (no offense intended). > > The idea might work, but I'm willing to step out and say that I don't > think it will. > > On the other hand, I might be pleasantly wrong :-). > > --Thomas Larsen > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
