User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/CoSci12/Wikis in scholarly communication

Wikis in scholarly communication


Science is already a wiki if you look at it a certain way. It’s just a highly inefficient one &mdash; the incremental edits are made in papers instead of wikispace, and significant effort is expended to recapitulate existing knowledge in a paper in order to support the one to three new assertions made in any one paper.


 * Illustration: papers and wikispace