Yes, I'm interested in this, but I think that we can do better than a traditional wiki. The majority of people still print pdf's if they want to read and study something in detail, mainly because viewing PDF's on screen sucks, viewing wiki pages is somewhat better and the PLOS on-line format is good, but I think we're missing the main point.
<br><br>We need a way to replicate the things that we like about reading things on paper, in a digital way so that people wanting to study the content, want to read it on-line instead of printing it. I have some ideas for tracking the published content, hiding the details unless you want to see them, timing how long it takes people to read things and how they move through the content. How might this be done? I have some other ideas for a dev house (via Mac Cowell), a weekend(ish) codathon or competition that oww could sponsor to develop some of this software.
E.g give the coders a traditional published paper, ask them to dissect it and re-publish it in a form most easily readable on-line, then have a bank of naive testers to see which format is the easiest/fastest to comprehend.
<br><br>Perhaps the main article could be a traditional wiki page, but tagged so that the content could be scrapped into the different forms?<br><br>I was really busy last semester, but I have some more time now. I can pen down some more detailed ideas, but any thoughts on this so far?
<br><br>cheers, <br>John<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2008 10:56 AM, Drew Endy <<a href="mailto:endy@mit.edu">endy@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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