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- From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
- To: Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com>
- Cc: "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline
- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:57:55 -0700
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 17:45, Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:
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.
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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[acawiki-general] acawiki tagline,
Jon Phillips, 07/19/2011
- Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline, Christopher Adams, 07/20/2011
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Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline,
Mike Linksvayer, 07/23/2011
- Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline, Jodi Schneider, 07/24/2011
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