User:Daniel Mietchen/Blog/2012/05/16/Why isn't Wikipedia the arXiv for all scientific publications?

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Over on Twitter, Ethan Perlstein asked "Why isn't Wikipedia the arXiv for all scientific publications? @ReaderMeter @LaneRasberry #OpenScience}}",

which the Open Science Federation rephrased as "@eperlste on @wikipedia as an über-arXiv bits exist, is it time for a hackday? @evomri @PLoS @ReaderMeter @LaneRasberry @jimmy_wales @mrgunn".

This page is meant to collect and bundle some possible replies.

Trivial solutions

  • Why should it?
  • Why shouldn't it?
  • Licensing
  • Updatability or not?
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