Talk:Science 2.0

Concerns about this article

I have some serious issues with this article at the moment, and I would invite interested editors to spend some time reviewing WP:NEU and other core Wikipedia policies. Currently, the article reads as a vague yet enthusiastic description of "Science 2.0", combined with a number of links to academic, non-profit, and commercial websites which are basically social networks for scientists. The Web 2.0 article shows what can be done with some more care and attention, but I do feel that "Web 2.0", for all its own issues, is much more tangible and has delivered more than "Science 2.0" which remains as far as I can tell, a buzzword. I'll take one of the sections here as a specific example, my comments in parentheses:

Open publishing

Peer review (needs internal linking) of scientific publications helps (is intended to?) to filter out bad science or to correct errors. Unfortunately (the author's POV) this is a slow process (citation?) and the actual publication is often months after its submission (POV that this is a bad thing).

By taking the papers themselves to the cloud (very difficult for a non-specialist to understand this phrase), they become much more accessible (no evidence to confirm that this is the case). More peers will have a chance to read and review the paper, which could potentially lead to higher quality and faster publication (but again, there is no evidence that this is happening and in fact trials of systems by the BMJ found that peer reviewers were NOT wiling to comment online).

In closing, I hope that authors who have contributed to this article will take this statement as encouragement to improve the article rather than as mean-spirited or harsh. I will post a link on the talk page of interested authors and check in; without dramatic improvement I think the article should be considered for deletion. It would a shame, and ironic, if an article about the improvement of publishing through open access could not be improved on wikipedia! --PaulWicks (talk) 09:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Explanation

we are a group of student that are maken a new entry for Science 2.0 for a course called "User Interfaces". each of the student that follow this course must help to improve the entry by adding information of by editing it. therefore i would like to ask you, to give us some time before you take a decision. User:Gutiz01

Ah, I see, that makes sense. Well, I'm happy that your coursework has brought you to Wikipedia, it's great to see new technologies deployed in the classroom. A strong recommendation I will make is that the article must be *a wikipedia article first* and *your coursework project second*. That means that regardless of who is editing the article, it should conform to the policies of Wikipedia. There are extensive guidelines available at the Community Portal on the left hand side of the page. I hope that learning these and putting them into practice will help give us all a better article, and I hope many of the students in your class go on to become editors of wikipedia for the future too! All the best --PaulWicks (talk) 17:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Removed. Banned user Nrcprm2026 is not permitted to edit. Hipocrite (talk) 18:33, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, it'd be great if you could register for an account so we could discuss things on your talk page. Even if this page is being completed by a class, shared IP's make it difficult to know exactly who one is talking to. I see a lot of work has gone into improving the article and adding citations. I still have concerns however, which are reflected in the "essay-like" tag I've added to the page:

• This reads like a school essay. e.g. "However, skeptics have raised some valuable questions: How will authorship be granted? How is data protected? How will quality be assured?"

I agree, and have tried to clean up this aspect of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.227.217.102 (talk) 21:46, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

• Other parts are not neutral, they express opinion, e.g. "This should accelerate the growth of knowledge. The availability of the information is supposed to increase and so is its quality."

This, and below can be improved, but it is difficult, because this is in part at least an emerging concept, with a lot of theory, and limited hard fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.227.217.102 (talk) 21:50, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

• Many phrases are journalistic, not encyclopedia, e.g. "Sharing is at the heart of science 2.0.", "Open data may sound idyllic, but there are some real, practical challenges to getting it done. For one thing, as most people who have ever published a blog realizes, not everything posted on the Internet gets noticed and utilized. Eisen puts it this way:"

I'm hoping that raising the profile of this article to other editors will get some additional pairs of eyes on the page. All the best, --PaulWicks (talk) 12:20, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Neutrality of view and usages of "web 2.0" in science is not covered properly

I am clearly a strong believer in "web 2.0" technology in the context of supporting science and communication. Still, the article is not providing a broad overview on the topic and it is too focussed on "open" science topics rather than more neutral overviews of "web 2.0" in science. So, here a few suggestions on improving the article

• Please list reasons why people are using "science 2.0", which is IMHO not a buzz-word, but indeed a combination of "web 2.0" in the context of science.
  • Motivation for scientists? see e.g. here
  • Information explosion as mentioned here, and why web 2.0 is able helping in filtering and please note controversy

edit: we tried to involve this in our iteration of the wiki page, we added the Rabbit hole risk and the spigot risk, and involved the snowflake effect as part of a solution. - Group10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pega88 (talk • contribs) 19:34, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

• • Curation services, especially Distributed Annotation System and co, nothing a single person, or institute can handle, but the crowd can
  • Curation of data, check simply Wiki PubMed:Query:Wiki. Please note that there is also a controversy, especially in the contribution of scientists to such media (ping me if you need more references).
  • Integration and Annotation, e.g. Reflect and OnTheFly
• Please mention usage of web 2.0 in commercial settings and in industry.
  • What kind of consortia or collaborations exist? E.g., though not strictly web 2.0 itself, but working towards web integration, aka allowing web 2.0 inchi trust or see also FF discussion
  • Challenges from a legal and reimbursement aspect?
  • Data privacy issues for "Health 2.0" topics? E.g. PrivateAccess

Of course, there is much more to discuss and to add, and that is exactly the reason why this articles needs improvement from a broader audience! Best, science 2.0 regards, Dr. Joerg Kurt Wegner --JKW (talk) 21:17, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Removed. Banned user Nrcprm2026 is not permitted to edit. Hipocrite (talk) 18:33, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I replaced the list of examples I found in the history for these dates. Dualus (talk) 05:06, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Science 2.0 is more than open access publishing

Hi there, I am not a Wikipedia contributor but I was first to coin the term Science 2.0 and made it a registered trademark after people started using it in bad ways, like charging money for conferences or Old Media publishing articles saying Science 2.0 is open access, which is just a way for them to control the issue by controlling copyright - like using House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr.,Democrat from Michigan, to kill open access for NIH studies.

I know Berci, of course, and have been a fan of his writing, but I'd like to talk with people here about helping to get an accurate entry together.

At some point if the definition is not right, the wrong one becomes so prevalent that accuracy does not matter and I'd like to avoid that. Please write hank@ionpublicationsdotcom and let me know how I can help. I'm tickled you all went to this much work!

(I added in the USPTO entry as a reference but did not have access to the reference list so it is 'outside' the numbers and I moved SB to the top of the sources, because I don't think it's right for companies to be ahead of me) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.164.216.188 (talk) 16:48, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Removed. Banned user Nrcprm2026 is not permitted to edit. Hipocrite (talk) 18:33, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Link to Trademark Owner Of "Science 2.0" And Photo Of Registration Certificate

http://www.scientificblogging.com/science_20/what_science_20_no_one_else_seems_know http://www.scientificblogging.com/sites/all/modules/author_gallery/uploads/1378387531-science%202.0%20trademark%20copy%20small.jpg

There are legal issues involved here about ownership and usage of trademarks.The legal issue is that the internal standards that Wikipedia has established have not being followed on this page and the owner's legal rights are not acknowledged as the rules require.

Science 2.0 is a registered Trade Mark Of ION PUBLICATIONS LLC

Astrojed (talk) 22:12, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Astrojed (talk) 20:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

It seems to be okay now. Dualus (talk) 05:08, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Let's stop jargonizing this and hacking it up

There are things Science 2.0 is and is not - what it is not, is basically a Web version of 'Smurf' where it can change into anything anyone wants. It will be meaningless. It was, in its original form, four concepts for enhancing communication, collaboration, publication and participation but every time we try to bring it back to that some kook goes through and erases anything actually related to Science 2.0 and leaves some fuzzy conceptual nonsense that reads like a homework project.

The power of Wikipedia is that it is public but its greatest weakness is that anyone, even people who know nothing at all about Science 2.0, can hack up pages and leave them looking silly.

I added some "Further reading" to make it less like a personal essay, but I'm not sure that section is supposed to come after References. Does anyone know whether the Manual of Style says before or after References for Further reading? I can't find any actual complaints of weasel words, so I'll remove that too. Dualus (talk) 05:10, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

The title is appropriate?

Science 2.0 means science using web 2.0 technology. We will change its name when we have a new web technology? e.g. Web 2.1 ?

I suggest we use one of the following:

1. Open science 2. Content-based science (see http://content-based-science.org/)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.223.40.1 (talk) 14:05, 14 April 2012 (UTC)