User:Daniel Mietchen/Blog/2012/05/16/Why isn't Wikipedia the arXiv for all scientific publications?

Over on Twitter, Ethan Perlstein asked "Why isn't Wikipedia the arXiv for all scientific publications? @ReaderMeter @LaneRasberry #OpenScience}}",

which the Open Science Federation rephrased as "@eperlste on @wikipedia as an über-arXiv bits exist, is it time for a hackday? @evomri @PLoS @ReaderMeter @LaneRasberry @jimmy_wales @mrgunn".

This page is meant to collect and bundle some possible replies.

Trivial solutions

• Why should it?
• Why shouldn't it?

• WP:!
• There is already Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource

• Licensing

• Updatability or not?