Hi Piotr, hi all, Piotr, I like your idea about instituting awards because awards may help younger researchers in particular to try something new that their bosses are not likely to have tried out by themselves, e.g. contributing scientific or otherwise research-related stuff to Wikipedia
in my opinion, any idea that helps academics accept open science more wholeheartedly will in the long run benefit Wikipedia and the wikification of scientific publishing On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:48:27 -0400, Piotr Konieczny wrote [...] > If we want to encourage cooperation between academia and Wikipedia, we > have to make it worthwhile for academics to contribute to Wikipedia - > worthwhile in terms of their careers. One of the ways to do so would be > to have professional organizations for our respective professions > institute an award for popularization of the respective discipline on > Wikipedia. let me illustrate this by an example: two words in your post ("for our respective professions" and "award") made me think I might point you to a contest for a scientific award that is currently running, until 31 May which is hosted by an open access journal in Leukemia research et al. (Cellular Therapy and Transplantation, http://www.ctt-journal.com) the contest's first phase was run in a discussion forum on the journal's site with a subsequent traditional upload of papers to be reviewed by a Jury (whose names were publicized in advance), with the best six papers to be published in that journal afterwards phase II of the contest is run in a blog, with the blog comments being potentially rewardable (by a prize in money, by votes etc.) and each comment getting its own doi http://maximowaward.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/blog-comment-contest-10-31-may-12-scientific- terminology/ the organizers think that such a contest is likely to be the first step for researchers in this field to use Web 2.0 for scientiific purposes and in an open science frame. the next step would be to invite potential authors of this journal to contribute articles in the format of Topic Pages that could easily be "wikified" (thanks to Daniel's initiative, see e.g. his recent mail http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2012-May/002124.html) Q: does anyone know of similar initiatives in medicine or other fields that might help speed up some kind of habit change and maybe enhance new practices among researchers that get them closer to Wikipedia? or maybe of some specific criticism of any award in this regard? thanks & cheers, Claudia koltzenb...@w4w.net _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l