User:Daniel Mietchen/Blog/2012/05/16/Why isn't Wikipedia the arXiv for all scientific publications?

Over on Twitter, Ethan Perlstein asked "Why isn't Wikipedia the arXiv for all scientific publications? @ReaderMeter @LaneRasberry #OpenScience}}",

which the Open Science Federation rephrased as "@eperlste on @wikipedia as an über-arXiv bits exist, is it time for a hackday? @evomri @PLoS @ReaderMeter @LaneRasberry @jimmy_wales @mrgunn".

This page is meant to collect and bundle some possible replies.

Trivial solutions

 * Why should it?
 * Why shouldn't it?


 * WP:!
 * There is already Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource


 * Licensing


 * Updatability or not?