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Ein Interview von Contentology.com (Open Journal of Content Science) mit Wikipedia-Mitbegründer Jimmy Wales endet mit der Frage, ob angesichts der Open-Access-Bewegung die Wikipedia ihre Aktivitäten in den Wissenschaftsbereich ausdehnen wird, oder ob wissenschaftliche Communities eigene Wikipedien oder Wikinews gebrauchen könnten. Wales antwortet selbstbewuÃ?t und optimistisch:Wikipedia will play an important role in the open access movement. There are many, many communities that can learn from the success of Wikipedia to generate high quality work from collaborative efforts.I think there could be a similar model for that sort of thing, but it would have to be different from Wikipedia.  As an example: one of the firm rules of Wikipedia is "no original research" - we simply aren't qualified to evaluate it.  That's what academic journals are for.  So, why are academic journals written in such an old-fashioned way?  Can't there be some dramatic improvements in that process now that we have collaborative authoring technologies?  I think so!But exactly how to do that?  Hmm, it's an interesting problem.[via Open Access News]