RNA Biology Journal and Wikipedia December 20, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in DNA, e-Science, Medical journalism, science, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.Tags: rna, Wikipedia
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A short post about the RNA Biology Journal that made a big step towards creating a really comprehensive and valuable encyclopaedia on the pages of Wikipedia.
Anyone submitting to a section of the journal RNA Biology will, in the future, be required to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work. The journal will then peer review the page before publishing it in Wikipedia.
What a great idea! What a brave move!
- Article authors should follow the guidelines and instructions described here.
- The template filling tool will also help them.
- And that’s how a quality RNA Wikipedia article should look like.
If you need help with your Wikipedia article submission, just let me know. As a Wikipedia administrator, it would be my please to help you out.
(Source: Nature.com)
hm… it sounds good at first, but how about “no original research”? Isn’t what gets published in that journal typically original research, i.e., excatly what we do NOT want on wikipedia?
The ‘no original research’ policy on wikipedia means that such articles may not be published on Wikipedia before they are published in the RNA journal.
Once the article has been published in the RNA journal however then the Wikipedia article isn’t original research any more. Now it counts as a report of what has already appeared in a ‘reliable source’.
Absolutely. It’s clearly stated in their editorial policy.
Broken link at the end. Should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_ribozyme
Thank you, Arvind, I made the correction.
Berci
This is awesome. I’m glad to see journals are opening up. As a person with a rare disorder trying to do research, I am continually frustrated by the ability to get access to information which could help me understand my disorder. I’m not making a career off of this, I’m trying to be healthy.
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