{"id":1275,"date":"2010-07-17T20:05:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2010-07-17T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T19:05:19","slug":"quoted-in-inside-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/17\/quoted-in-inside-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoted in Inside Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Inside Higher Ed published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/07\/14\/wikis\">article about\u00a0wikis in higher education<\/a>. I&#8217;m quoted in connection with my work ((I used to be AcaWiki&#8217;s\u00a0Community Liaison and now contribute summaries and help administer the wiki.))\u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/acawiki.org\/\">AcaWiki<\/a>, which gathers summaries of research papers, books, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The article was publicized with a tweet asking &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/IHEtech\/status\/18520449995\">Why haven&#8217;t\u00a0#wikis revolutionized scholarship?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;d rather ask &#8220;how have wikis impacted scholarship?&#8221; &#8212; though that&#8217;s less sexy! First, the largest impact is in technological infrastructure: it&#8217;s now commonplace to use collaborative, networked tools with built-in version control. (Though &#8220;wiki&#8221; isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;d use to describe Google Docs nor Etherpad or its many clones). Second, wikis are ubiquitous in research,\u00a0if you look in the right places. (<a href=\"http:\/\/ncatlab.org\/nlab\/show\/HomePage\" target=\"_self\">nLab<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/openwetware.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_self\">OpenWetWare<\/a>, and numerous departmental wikis). Third, &#8220;revolutions&#8221; take time, and academia is essentially conservative and slow-moving. For instance, ejournals (~15 years old and counting) are only just starting to depart significantly from the paper form (with multimedia inclusions, storage of data and other, public comments, overlay \u00a0journals, post-publication peer-review, etc). Wikis have been used for teaching since roughly 2002 ((see e.g. Bergin, J. (2002). Teaching on the wiki web. In <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education<\/span> (pp. 195-195). Aarhus, Denmark: ACM. doi:<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/544414.544473\">10.1145\/544414.544473<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/csis.pace.edu\/~bergin\/jwiki\/index.html\">related source code<\/a>)), meaning that academic wikis might be only about 8 years old at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Other responses: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/brian\/2010\/07\/viva-la-wiki\/\">Viva la wiki<\/a>, says Brian Lamb, who was also interviewed for the article. Daniel Mietchen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.citizendium.org\/wiki\/User:Daniel_Mietchen\/Talks\/LSWT_2010\/Integrating_wikis_with_scientific_workflows\">thinks big about the future of wikis for science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Inside Higher Ed published an article about\u00a0wikis in higher education. I&#8217;m quoted in connection with my work ((I used to be AcaWiki&#8217;s\u00a0Community Liaison and now contribute summaries and help administer the wiki.))\u00a0with AcaWiki, which gathers summaries of research papers, books, etc. The article was publicized with a tweet asking &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t\u00a0#wikis revolutionized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,99,85,182],"tags":[160,268,267],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-publishing","category-higher-education","category-information-ecosystem","category-scholarly-communication","tag-acawiki","tag-inside-higher-ed","tag-wikis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}