Masticationpedia: Unterschiede zu anderen Kooperationsprojekten
Masticationpedia verwendet MediaWiki[1], eine Software, die für die wichtigsten kollaborativen Online-Projekte zur Erstellung und Verteilung von Inhalten entwickelt wurde, Wikipedia[2]. Wikipedia und andere Wikis haben mittlerweile Einzug in unseren Alltag gehalten, sie sind (zum Glück) Werkzeuge, die wir heute alle kennen. Es gibt jedoch einige Unterschiede zwischen Masticationpedia und den anderen Wikis, sensible Unterschiede, die es wert sind, sich vor der Interaktion mit dieser Plattform zu befassen.
Inhaltserstellung
Der wichtigste Unterschied ist sicherlich das in Masticationpedia kann nicht jeder schreiben. Die Bearbeitung in Masticationpedia steht keinem Passanten offen.
Masticationpedia produziert spezialisierte wissenschaftliche Inhalte, diese Inhalte werden von unserer scientific community gesichtet und die Erfahrungsqualität der Quelle macht einen Unterschied, wie im gesamten System der Produktion von professionellem Fachwissen.
Natürlich ist die Erfahrung kollaborativer Projekte, sicherlich zuallererst Wikipedia, selbst ein phänomenologisch sehr wichtiges Datum, von dem wir eine volle (und dankbare) Vorstellung haben: In dieser Enzyklopädie war es die Möglichkeit der bedingungslosen Interaktion mit dem Projekt, die sie gemacht hat (in so relativ kurzer Zeit) das uns bekannte Phänomen des redaktionellen Erfolgs - sowie ein Point of no Return für die gnoseologische Evolution). Wir wissen es, wir haben es ganz klar vor Augen. Tatsächlich, Jeder kann auf die Diskussionsseiten jeder auf Masticationpedia veröffentlichten Seite zugreifen und diese bearbeiten. Anyone can tell us that "the King is naked", if appropriate, and anyone can offer his studies as long as they are reasonably compatible with the purposes of the site and presented in the appropriate ways. In the discussion pages ("talk pages"), which are in fact open. Only registration and confirmation of the reference e-mail are required.
The content pages, instead, are reserved for authors, and cannot be edited "on the fly". They could be modified, they are not carved on stone, but the changes would be checked before publication, as if they were new pages.
If you are a Professional or a scholar, if you have a pertinent competence and wish to collaborate in the construction of new knowledge in the sectors of our interest, please contact us: Masticationpedia wishes to interact with anyone bringing us scientific concepts to share, and hopes to be able to increase knowledge through this very special path.
Content neutrality
While one of the most precious values brought by Wikipedia to knowledge is the neutral reporting of information[3], in which the data are shown without endorsing or rejecting them, attributing (and therefore redirecting) the relative assessments to the sources, in Masticationpedia it would be extremely difficult to affirm that there are possibilities to remain neutral in presenting content that is born in the heart of scientific research: Masticationpedia has for its own purpose the production of new content, not [yet] historicized in generalist visions, and could rather, by its very nature, favour the proposition of innovations which, as such, do not have to be neutral (nor could be), but orthodox according to the scientific method[4], which is a completely different matter.
The contents of Masticationpedia therefore contain appraisals and valuations, and apparently comments and opinions too, and it is perfectly normal (here) that it is so. We are not reporting the general outcome of our Discipline, we are interacting with it, on it. For it, of course.
Effects of communitarian consensus
All collaborative projects live on the liveliness of the communities that develop in them. Masticationpedia is no exception: here too there is a (still small) community of contributors discussing the project choices. However, since the scientific method is the only beacon that must guide us, in Masticationpedia the Community does not have the sovereign powers it can have elsewhere, and if one day the Community decided for instance to make the Project state that the Earth is flat, that consensus would be incinerated by the scientific method, by which that hypothesis proves wrong.
The Community cannot intervene on the contents except in the sense of verification, control, refinement, improvement, growth (and removal of any errors, of course), according to the scientific method.
At least in the start-up phase, the Community has no competence at all on the management of users, whose assessment is up to the Masticationpedia Charity, by now exclusively, as the faculty to interrupt its activity is, as well, for many legal and technical reasons. Masticationpedia is a private site, the possibilities for collaborative access offered to the public are limited by reasonable utility requirements in the sole perspective of the pursuit of the constitutive purposes, excluding any and all other and different purposes.
Masticationpedia respects the right of expression and freedom of speech, but this site has a very specific purpose and is not to allow dialectical spaces, but rather to build specialized scientific knowledge.
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particularly focusing on the field of the neurophysiology of the masticatory system