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  • From: Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com>
  • To: Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com>
  • Cc: "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] Roadmap and Social Media
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:00:06 -0400

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I took some time to update the roadmap and shift some items
> around towards a more monthly tactical approach. Check it out, add
> some items, tweak some, make some comments, and even better, take on
> some tasks:
>
> http://acawiki.org/Roadmap

It's great to have this in public.
It's a little difficult to see what's been taken on, and what's been
commented on -- since signatures are used for both.

>
> Also, Christopher spent some time making sure the accounts are all
> working and I connected up the ping.fm, facebook and linkedin
> accounts. Please follow, link, or friend your favorite networks (you
> know you secretely have them anyway ;)
>
>    http://identi.ca/acawiki
>    http://twitter.com/acawiki
>    http://facebook.com/acawiki
>    http://www.linkedin.com/company/acawiki

Great! :)

>
> Finally, we've been brewing up an announcement about the updated theme
> and logo, and I want to announce a big push towards getting summaries
> of the top 5 academic papers in each field we represent. The
> announcement is going to be big talk, but we need to back it up with
> realidad.
>
> Christopher did some research on how we could ascertain the top 5
> papers in a field here:
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28656
>
> I think we should map it to our main paper categories:
>
> Anthropology
> Arts and Literarure
> Astronomy
> Biology
> Business
> Chemistry
> Clinical Research
> Computer Science
> Economics
> Education
> Engineering
> Geosciences
> Health
> Mathematics
> Medicine
> Neuroscience
> Philosophy
> Physics
> Psychology
> Sociology

We have a pending bug, I think, about these categories: they're not
comprehensive and we've had requests to add other categories (Mako had
a list I think).

>
> And, then ideally we can select the top 5 papers in each of those 20
> fields/domains. That's 100 papers.

IMO it's very hard to identify the top 5 as opposed to the top 10-20
papers in a domain.

>
> Another thought is to have a lead/admin for each topic that is
> knowledgeable in the domain, and then seed it with top papers. Of
> course there is bias, but have to start somewhere.

I think that's a great idea. Does "seeding" involve identifying the
papers? Or putting up summaries also?

>
> Any thoughts on this process?

Seeding from existing useful summary lists would help -- there are
some ideas of those here:
http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:Related_people_and_groups#Outreach_ideas

>
> Jon
>
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