Buy-in from Academic Community

• Everyone is an expert on something!
• A few have even authored a Wikipedia page!
• So what does a Wiki allow them to do (that WebCT does not?)
• Academics have a built in Chemical Vocabulary
• Academics can recognise an Ontological term even if they cannot define it!
• But what shape is the learning curve?
• The WikiPedia 1.0 Project:
  • Martin Walker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pushing_to_validation
  • http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite