Masticationpedia:Editorial Lab
The "Ed.Lab" which stands for 'Editorial laboratory', is a reserved area of this wiki, in which chapters and other contents are created or edited by a selected group of users.
All the chapters can be discussed here, as well as related contents.
Who can edit pages in Lab
Actions in the "Lab" namespace are reserved to a special group of users: editors. Only users flagged as editors can write in it and can create new pages and new discussion pages.
Administrators (sysops) and bureaucrats have full access, as well, in this namespace for technical reasons; Masticationpedia could have granted them too the 'editor' rights, in this case they can work in the Lab just like any other editor, otherwise they have to limit their activity to maintenance duties only.
What to do in the Lab
Apart from interacting and exchanging ideas with truly interesting people, in the Lab editors can:
- propose their works for review by a rigidly selected audience
- propose works in their own native language (but an English version is warmly suggested, to allow a wider audience to read and discuss them)
- review other editors' works
- suggest edits
What happens next
Once a proposal is advanced, a new process is started in the Lab.
At the end of any process, our Scientific Director will check which suggestions about content have been received and which requested amendments have been agreed upon and prepared; he will consequently allow the changes to be activated in the official side of the wiki.
When reviewers agree
When our reviewers conclude for publishing the works, the proposed article will be kept on standby for a while, so to allow other users to correct any errors and punctuation in English language (after translating it, if the chapter is written in another language). At the completion of this period, it will be transferred to the multilingual section, where the author/s can translate the content in his/their native language
The article will soon be ready for translation into the various languages and officially published on the platform.
===Can the chapter not be accepted? No. Masticationpedia is coherent with its strategies. One of these is the elimination of the acceptance or reject decision by the referees for a number of reasons that we have reported in the welcome letters. This does not mean that everyone can write and write everything, on the contrary our philosophy is to give ample space without limits to scientists without subjecting them to an interrogation of 'verifiability' by referees. A scientist or a researcher must not submit to the judgment of a group of 'experts' because otherwise the genius of the scientist would remain hidden in his existence as has already happened several times. We prefer to do the filter upstream, in the sense that to enter as editor, the Scientific Committee of Masticationpedia must deepen the analysis of the competences and know-how of the proponent author and once considered suitable for the implementation of the platform, it will consider him as 'Editor'. From this point on, the responsibility for what the hypothetical editor writes, for better or for worse, lies solely with him. Masticationpedia is basically a scientific laboratory in which ideas are not contained but are appreciated. This model is innovative and democratic and liberal, it ennobles the man of Science and it weakens the 'referees commissions' ===
When our reviewers conclude that the proposed works are not [yet] ready for publishing, nothing happens to the related existing articles, the proposal will instead be kept as a draft for further development.