On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message dated 9/13/2009 2:48:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Clearly, this information will not be ported back to Wikipedia. >> > > Why is this clear? It isn't clear to me. > > Will >
Scholarpedia was designed to give academics credit for their work and it makes reasonable guarantees about the accuracy of its content. The accuracy guarantee is a benefit not only to readers, but to the authors as well. You sometimes see Scholarpedia articles in academic CVs. After the curatorship is turned over to the community only those who have demonstrated their expertise on the topic by making high quality contributions are allowed to edit. As experts pass away there is competition among leaders in the field to take over curatorship of the topic. From the perspective of a scientist who cares about whether their work is being represented correctly this is vastly preferable to having your writing mercilessly edited by people who may or may not have any clue what they are talking about, or who may have hidden agendas. Additionally, you are in good company at Scholarpedia. Academics want to publish their work in the same place as their contemporaries. After the community votes on which living expert should be an author, they work hard to invite that author to write the article and to help them out in any way they can. It was designed by academics, for academics. It will be tough to beat. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
