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  • From: Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com>
  • To: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
  • Cc: "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:10:04 +0100

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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