User:Daniel Mietchen/Blog/2012/05/16/Why isn't Wikipedia the arXiv for all scientific publications?
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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
edit- Why should it?
- Why shouldn't it?
- WP:!
- There is already Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource
- Licensing
- Updatability or not?