On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 September 2012 21:20, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of >> how >> > to manage such things with volunteers. >> > >> > Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced >> model >> > where the most esteemed publications are run by students. >> > > Well, perhaps. But their "peer review" is courtrooms, where the decisions > are made publicly and are produced by the justice system free of charge to > the journals. Otherwise, the articles are written by students with faculty > advisors reviewing their work. I don't think anyone wants medical studies > to be "peer reviewed" by medical students.
FWIW, I was on a peer-reviewed law journal (there are a few) where students managed the reviewer-wrangling process, with the occasional aid and input of an also-unpaid faculty advisor. -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: k...@wikimedia.org, k...@mindspillage.org (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
