Archive for the ‘Wikis’ Category

March 23, 2011 0

Bollocks to waiting 10 years for progress

By in e-Science, Early-adopter, Open data, Social Media, Software, Web 2.0, Wikis

Tweet Open Data warrior Mark Hahnel (@science3point0), the creator of FigShare, explains in this guest post the motivation behind the project and asks researchers why they aren’t publishing their research data. I read a good quote the other day: “Bollocks to waiting 10 years for progress. I want people to know about it now, and [...]

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February 10, 2011 Off

Why do scientists (not) contribute to Wikipedia?

By in Collaboration, Social Media, Surveys, Wikis

Tweet An excellent article published last month in the Chronicle celebrates Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary by observing that today the project doesn’t represent “the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal vetting” and, as such, it can serve as “an ideal bridge between the validated and unvalidated Web”. [...]

November 2, 2009 6

LaTeX rendering of equations in Google Wave – LaTeXy

By in Early-adopter, Reading, wave, Web 2.0, Wikis, Writing

Tweet It was a matter of time before someone wrote a robot that grabbed latex  and returned an image after latex processing. LaTeXy does exactly that and has just increased tenfold the usefulness of wave for academics.

October 8, 2009 3

AcaWiki: a wiki that encourages academics to write their stuff for the general public

By in Opinion, Reading, Web 2.0, Wikis, Writing

Tweet AcaWiki is a new wiki aimed at academics. They are asking for summaries of academic research. This could be an excellent exercise for students (i.e., don’t hand me your paper: post it to acaWiki, and let me know when I can look at it). From reading the FAQ, It’s not clear to me that [...]

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