On Friday, November 9, 2012, Joe Corneli wrote:

Dear Wikiversity-ans:

There has been some considerable discussion in wiki-research-l about
creating a new Wiki Studies journal and/or a new place to do research
the wiki way.

I always thought Wikiversity can be used for research in union with Wikipedia. Wikipedia is primarily thought of as an encyclopedia, but its a handy tool for research i believe.

One question is, why do we need a new place to do research, couldn't
we just use Wikiversity for that? For now, Wikiversity seems to focus
on education and specifically-educational research, but might it make
sense to broaden the scope to include original research more
generally?

The issue of 'original' research came up recently among a group of wikimedians in accra. I see it as, if original research should have a place on Wikimedia, then Wikimedia will have to push aside some writing guidelines and policies.

If you could have a look at the skeleton of the proposal here and add
your input (or via this thread), I would appreciate it!

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas/Research_Hub

Thanks,
Joe

A little question: Will the Wiki Studies journal be a standalone website (eg. Wikistudies.org) owned by a separate organization (and not wikimedia) or it will be the next Wiki project?

thanks

rexford

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