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  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com>
  • To: jschneider AT pobox.com
  • Cc: "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline
  • Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:48:49 +0800

adding spencer to this now that he's on the list. Check the taglines,
which one do you like?

jon

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com> wrote:
> Iterating on "Create human readable academic summaries":
>
> Summarize research--hop over jargonwalls
> Academic summaries that everyone can read and write
> Academic summaries that even non-academics can grok
> -Jodi
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 17:45, Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all, I want us to come up with a nice short tagline for acawiki. On
>>> the wiki there are some thoughts:
>>>
>>>    Current
>>>        "AcaWiki enables graduate students and researchers to share
>>> summaries of academic papers online"
>>>    Ideas
>>>        Share summaries of academic papers online
>>>        Share Academic Research Online
>>>        Share Academic Papers Online
>>>        Opening Access to Academic Papers Online
>>>        Share More Academic Papers Online
>>>        The Wikipedia of Academic Research
>>>        Research--Briefly
>>>        Summarize research online
>>>        Get the gist
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you all think? Great to have one we can use that gets idea
>>> across. I think in some ways saying "summarizing academic summaries"
>>> is very limiting.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://fabricatorz.com/2011/06/acawiki-presentation-at-fisl12-in-brazil/
>>>
>>> In the presentation I sent before I oultined four problems:
>>>
>>> * Paywalls (cost access barriers)
>>> * Jargonwalls (language specific barriers)
>>
>> I love "jargonwalls". Knocking them down must always be in the AcaWiki
>> message, otherwise the point is missed and the site can seem to merely make
>> life with paywalls more bearable.
>>
>> I thought an early version of the site said something like "democratizing
>> access to academic knowledge" which I think captures everything, but maybe
>> is opaque.
>>
>> "Online" is useless in any tagline. Unclear what "sharing" implies. For
>> the most part, sharing is secondary; the summaries need to be created.
>>
>> "Create human readable academic summaries" is probably too jargony, but I
>> can't think of anything great right now.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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