Wikis and Science 2.0
Here is some interesting reading related to wiki:
"Yet scientists are largely being left behind in this second revolution, as they are proving slow to adopt many of the latest technologies that could help them communicate online more rapidly and collaboratively than they do now."
- Martin Griffiths "Talking physics in the social Web", Physics World 20 January pp. 24-28 (2007)
- Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman "Assessing the Value of Coooperation in Wikipedia", arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0702140
- Philip Ball "The more, the wikier", Nature news 27 February 2007
- Brandon Keim "WikiMedia", Nature Medicine 13 pp. 231-233 (2007)
- Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams "The New Science of Sharing", BusinessWeek March 2 (2007)
"...the same technological and demographic forces that are turning the Web into a massive collaborative work space are helping to transform the realm of science into an increasingly open and collaborative endeavor. Yes, the Web was, in fact, invented as a way for scientists to share information. But advances in storage, bandwidth, software, and computing power are pushing collaboration to the next level. Call it Science 2.0."
"Science publishers' efforts to have the research community sup the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid have failed, and scientists have given a resounding thumbs down to a gamut of crowd-tapping initiatives, showgoers at SXSW heard on Saturday.
A panel of science web publishers said scientists had consistently shunned wikis, tagging, and social networks, and have even proven reticent to leave comments on web pages."