I disagree as a Brit, since Wiki and any such open system really, really doesn't care *who* discovered the information, it only cares that the information is correct. Although not an "academic" myself, as a Brit that's how I think *all* such research should be i,e. just give the correct info for all to see, who discovered it originally and who posted it are comparatively unimportant (except to boost the ego/s of the person/s concerned). On 3 Jun 2012, at 05:52, Henry Baker wrote:
Well, the guys/gals I ran into certainly did a pretty mean goose-step.
Life's too short to deal with petty tyrants like that who apparently don't get enough Activia in their diets.
Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) was recently retained by the British govt to help the Brits get rid of "pay walls" for govt-sponsored research.
If Jimmy (aka "Jimbo") agrees with the sort of nonsense I ran into today, then I think there will be a pretty significant backlash by the British academic community to the Wales's Wikipedia Way (My Way or the High Way).
I suspect that the Brits will then develop YAWP (Yet Another WikiPedia) for academics that will have different rules -- rules more akin to normal journal publishing rules.
Based on what I saw today, Wikipedia may now be so broken that nothing can fix it, except competition from another organization with different rules.
At 03:07 PM 6/2/2012, you wrote:
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Does anyone know how to deal with Wikipedia?
Wiki is infested with content nazis who are intent on enforcing "the rules".
Overall, it's probably a necessary affliction to prevent it from becoming just another platform for spam.
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