an interesting post at the Machine Learning (Theory) blog about the advantages of the Web and Wikipedia for scientists. He suggests that a Wikipedia article used by scientists of a discipline would benefit from a stronger and more apparent link between a person’s identity and their contributions.

At the end of these steps, creating a paper is simply the process of creating a webpage or altering an existing webpage. We can imagine doing all of this while keeping the peer-review mechanisms of science intact, so the resulting process is simply better in all ways. It’s easier to author because for most papers much of the ‘filler’ introduction/motivation/definition can be reused from previous papers. It’s easier to review, because reviewers can consider the result in context.