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- From: Christopher Adams <chris AT raysend.com>
- To: Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com>
- Cc: jschneider AT pobox.com, "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline
- Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:46:18 +0800
I like it.
Though we might acknowledge that "Wikipedia"is a trademark of by the Wikimedia Foundation. ;)
- Christopher
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:
i agree, just go for it.--On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Spencer Young <cerparleyo AT gmail.com> wrote:
I vote: "The Wikipedia of Academic Research/Papers". The other tag lines read a little too loose, abstract.
SOn Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:
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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Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline,
Jon Phillips, 09/02/2011
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Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline,
Spencer Young, 09/02/2011
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Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline,
Jon Phillips, 09/02/2011
- Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline, Christopher Adams, 09/02/2011
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Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline,
Jon Phillips, 09/02/2011
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Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki tagline,
Spencer Young, 09/02/2011
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