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I think "journals being replaced by Wikis that allow researchers to continuously update stuff in real time" would be a terrible idea. If I'm going to use someo
by lutorm 12y ago
I think "journals being replaced by Wikis that allow researchers to continuously update stuff in real time" would be a terrible idea.
If I'm going to use someone's results as basis for my own research, I really want to know that this is a final, "as good as they reasonably can make it" result, not an "oh we're not quite done with the hard, ungratifying work of actually crossing the ts and dotting the is but here it is" kind of result.
- sjtrny 12y agoVersioning solves this problem. It's effectively the same as people publishing follow up work. Most of the time the initial publication on things isnt comprehensive. For example in computer science people publish their idea to conferences because it is fast then submit a longer form to a journal where they have more room to include things like proofs.