Wikipedia or Perish
December 19, 2008 – 9:26 amInteresting piece from Nature News: “Anyone submitting to a section of the journal RNA Biology will, in the future, be required to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work. The journal will then peer review the page before publishing it in Wikipedia.”
3 Responses to “Wikipedia or Perish”
Wow. That might amount to actual peer review, as opposed to a journal asking a random postdoc to skim the article. (Or asking a senior prof to review the article, who then delegates the task to a postdoc.)
By John on Dec 19, 2008
That sounds an awful lot like “original research.”
By Steven Huwig on Dec 19, 2008
But Wikipedia has this nasty policy of “No Original Research”! This is not gonna fly is it? It should…
By rgz on Dec 20, 2008