On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Ward Cunningham <w...@c2.com> wrote:
> Its a good time to think big, especially if big doesn't cost too much. Yeah! And for this reason, I think the best and most useful option (out of the ones that people are suggesting here) is ALL. Why not have a mainstream journal *and* reinvent research as we know it? After all, many hands make light work! Furthermore, we should have many communities with different norms. Typically that will also mean different software. The ones that grow stale will fade out. And the ones that possess a certain special something will transform. For instance... it makes sense that we're *currently* having this conversation on a mailing list, and not, say, on http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal_talk:Research (c/o Kerry Raymond) -- who here gets a feed of that in their inbox (at present)? Still, as much as we should absolutely dream big and talk big, let's also dream small and imagine some nice concrete next steps. Maybe we should fork part of the conversation to one or more of these pages? http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal_talk:Research ? http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Village_pump/en ? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Index ? (Note here we see one of the possible downsides of "ALL", namely, conversations can and usually do fragment, so I think a good short-term goal would be to decide on ONE place that we might want to gather to continue talking about "this sort of thing". That way, we can fragment and come back together in useful ways. It could just be "this mailing list"...) _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
