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Dear Thomas,
Thank you for contacting me; the wikijsci project, which I didn't know about, seems quite interesting indeed.
Unfortunately, as I understand it after a cursory look, you can only submit pages edited online in the Wikimedia format, as opposed to the LaTeX sources submitted to regular journals.
If that is so, then it's a non-starter for me, as it means that any serious work invested into the journal suffers from the same fundamental problem as work invested into the wiki: it is non-interoperable with my existing workflows and tools, and can neither benefit from nor add to my lecture notes, slides, drafts, papers,... or those of my colleagues. At least not without going through the unadulterated tedium of rewriting everything in a different syntax (including the LaTeX maths, because of packages and macros...).
The scope of the journal and its stance wrt original research are also unclear to me. [1] states that "The journal publishes both review articles and original research in various formats", but the link on "formats" redirects towards the wikijournal of Medicine, which is not pertinent to my field (th.compsci).
That said, again, I find the concept interesting, --- perhaps writing a small article for it could be a good objective for a research internship, for instance --- and I thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Cheers, — Gamall Wednesday Ida ( t · c) 12:36, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
working parser to automatically convert latex to mediawiki, but that's apparently quite tricky
by accident (now fixed)
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This page has archives. Sections may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III. |
Dear Thomas,
Thank you for contacting me; the wikijsci project, which I didn't know about, seems quite interesting indeed.
Unfortunately, as I understand it after a cursory look, you can only submit pages edited online in the Wikimedia format, as opposed to the LaTeX sources submitted to regular journals.
If that is so, then it's a non-starter for me, as it means that any serious work invested into the journal suffers from the same fundamental problem as work invested into the wiki: it is non-interoperable with my existing workflows and tools, and can neither benefit from nor add to my lecture notes, slides, drafts, papers,... or those of my colleagues. At least not without going through the unadulterated tedium of rewriting everything in a different syntax (including the LaTeX maths, because of packages and macros...).
The scope of the journal and its stance wrt original research are also unclear to me. [1] states that "The journal publishes both review articles and original research in various formats", but the link on "formats" redirects towards the wikijournal of Medicine, which is not pertinent to my field (th.compsci).
That said, again, I find the concept interesting, --- perhaps writing a small article for it could be a good objective for a research internship, for instance --- and I thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Cheers, — Gamall Wednesday Ida ( t · c) 12:36, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
working parser to automatically convert latex to mediawiki, but that's apparently quite tricky
by accident (now fixed)