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Wikis as platforms for Open Access publishing · Prototypes · Editorial policies · Guided tour ·
Obstacles · Alternatives · Outlook · Summary · Slides · Video · Q & A · Demo

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Do journals provide sufficient contextualization for research?

Putting research in context

• For technical reasons, publishing was historically a separate step, performed about once per iteration of the research cycle

• Publishing every relevant bit of information immediately at each step is technically feasible now, and the remaining hurdles are cultural ones.

• Wikis allow for systematic linking and thus enhanced contextualization (sidenote: some have argued that links are distracting)

• Dear Scientists, Stop Duplicating Work

Interwiki communication

if you assert something said in another paper, sod the citation, transclude the relevant text, with a full electronic citation allowing you to verify it.
 — Christopher Gutteridge

• Interwiki links
• MediaWiki Extensions, e.g. for Widgets