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**********************************************************************Good questions Michael.As for why not on wikipedia, there's a good few reasons. First off, by doing it on the mediawiki software but on its separate platform, we can really tailor the user interface and specialize (if you try out adding a summary, the differences become quite apparent). Very importantly, it let's us jump straight to an easy-to-use interface which can greatly lower the barrier to entry for users who aren't experienced with wiki markup (no knowledge of this is required to write a good Brevy summary). This in turn allows us to standardize the summaries, add quality control elements, and possibly provide for future support of specific research authors (whatever that may be), amongst other things, all the while having the ability we need to add any relevant extensions we feel are required for this. Furthermore, wikipedia is more topic-focused and is built in such a way to treat research papers as a citation rather than an article. You also mention a "one stop shop," which ironically I feel we can capture the sentiment better on a specialized platform.
We initially built the summary input form with a bit more of the natural sciences in mind but not intending only those. I'd love to tweak it to be more inclusive of other fields as much as possible (though I'm trying to stray from adding entirely new input fields on it if I can). Actually, of the summaries currently present (there's only a scant few here in the beginning), they are often sociological, psychological, and so on. If an interested individual wants to chat with us about any such changes they feel might be useful though, just send us a line on an individual email.
We'd love for you to try out a summary and let us know if you see any relevant tweaks that would be useful! Thanks for the interest!
- Josh @ Brevy
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Stewart, Michael <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Is this aimed only at ‘natural’ sciences or also at the ‘sciences de l’homme’ as the french put it?
If the latter happy to spread - but one question - why not just do this in Wikipedia? i.e. in the one stop shop which all my students go to at once.. as I talk with them...
Michael
On 21 Mar 2016, at 21:12, Brevy Org <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
-Josh @ BrevyThanks, and please do add a summary and share it with parties of interest!I'm not sure I want to get into who paid for the research, but I do want to eventually note what "type" it is-- for instance, "industrial or private sector," "academic open access," "academic subscription journal," "pre-print," etc. I prefer this approach as it does allow us to especially highlight and appreciate open access articles when available and grow to include other types (like pre-prints) if we desire. I say "eventually" as I want to see what types of summaries get added before deciding on those categories, but it's on our list.As for the summary creation form, I'll fix the space issue. The wiki software pulls that title from the URL address rather than being a specific field. Regarding beefing it up, there is a field section for research significance already on there. Were you suggesting we add something else or that we perhaps tweak that in some way?By trial tags, do you mean the dummy articles (for instance in the rated section)? They will indeed be removed shortly.Hi Michael,Thanks for the welcome and thoughts! The feedback is especially appreciated.
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
**********************************************************************Nice idea. Clean site. (You need to remove some of the trial tags.)
The front page talks of “Research with more impact”. As impact is flavour of the month with government, how about beefing up the “Create ArticleSummary” bit (is there a missing space in there?) to encourage people to mention the impact – actual or expected – in their entries?
Might also help to ask for details of who paid for the research. I can see the chocolate companies piling on with write ups of their “research”.
MK
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] New wiki for academic research summaries -- help contribute to public engagement & access in science!
Hello everyone!
Myself (Josh) and a small independent team are trying a new means of supporting public engagement and accessibility in science and we need your help! We've recently launched:
which is a guided-interface wiki to collect plain-language, open summaries of peer-reviewed research. Brevy handles a lot of things for you automatically, so it's easy to add a quick summary without any web/coding knowledge.
To get this going, we really could use the help of the community to start populating the wiki with a pool of summaries. Here's a couple of easy ways to help:
- Add a summary of your own work or the most significant research in your field
- Assign making a summary as part of any courses you might teach (great way to introduce undergraduate or early grad students to real research while contributing to a meaningful framework)
- Encourage colleagues, especially professors, you know to add summaries or have their classes do as well
- Share it on social media or relevant mailing lists
Thanks, and let me know if there's any questions!
-Josh over at Brevy
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