Changes: Psychology Wiki:About

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Our Mission with Psychology Wiki is to give all people of the world free access to the sum total of psychology knowledge as developed within our scientific discipline. We envisage that complete and free access, combined with the user collaboration model, will eventually allow for the development of an integrated model of psychology across the different fields of the science.

In order to achieve this we need a Psychology Wiki program of works

Our Vision

The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online peer revewed resource placing the entire body of psychology knowledge in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services.

In doing so we are looking to address three issues. Firstly, psychology is composed of different and competing paradigms and perspectives, with researchers in different areas being unable to form an integrated model. Secondly, much of our knowledge is costly to access due to the restrictive nature of the journal-subscription model and the limited availability of free research papers in libraries and electronic databases.Thirdly, current psychology has a pronounced anglophone bias.

We look to work on the first problem by gathering psychology knowledge into one place, so creating a meta textbook. Articles can then be extensively cross linked, easily explaining terminology of one sub-discipline to a researcher in another, facilitating integration and discussion and allowing for the generation of new hypotheses and new theoretical models.

We address the second issue by citing the most relevant references in our discipline linking them to full text. Where this is not possible we will develop fuller, more useful summaries of papers than is currently available in abstracts. As each paper becomes freely accessible, it will have its own discussion page. We hope to stimulate more active debate on individual papers.

We address the third issue by encouraging input from other cultures in order to construct an international psychology which will be translated into the main languages of the world.

The overall aim is to have the full corpus of psychology knowledge freely available to all on the desktop.

In order to do this we need your help. The task of unifying our discipline into an integrated and modern body of knowledge is too large for any small group of individuals. Only through the combined work of our entire psychology community will this task be possible.

We urge you to contribute to this project in any way you can.

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+Our Mission with '''Psychology Wiki''' is to give all people of the world free access to the sum total of psychology knowledge as developed within our scientific discipline.  We envisage that complete and free access, combined with the user collaboration model, will eventually allow for the development of an integrated model of psychology across the different fields of the science.
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+In order to achieve this we need a [[Psychology Wiki program of works]]
-The '''Psychology Wiki''' will allow for the development of an integrated model of psychology across the different fields of the science.
-==Manifesto==
+==Our Vision==
+The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online peer revewed resource placing the entire body of psychology knowledge in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services.
+In doing so we are looking to address three issues. Firstly, psychology is composed of different and competing paradigms and perspectives, with researchers in different areas being unable to form an integrated model. Secondly, much of our knowledge is costly to access due to the restrictive nature of the journal-subscription model and the limited availability of free research papers in libraries and electronic databases.Thirdly, current psychology has a pronounced anglophone bias.
-The Psychology Wiki's mission is to place on the desktop the complete corpus of knowledge in the science, readily accessible and free to all.
+We look to work on the first problem by gathering psychology knowledge into one place, so creating a meta textbook. Articles can then be extensively cross linked, easily explaining terminology of one sub-discipline to a researcher in another, facilitating integration and discussion and allowing for the generation of new hypotheses and new theoretical models.
-Different from Wikipedia in that:
-* It provides content that goes beyond that presented to the general reader, content specifically written for academic and professional psychologists.
-* It provides detailed analysis of scientific paper, books and other publications.
-* It provides a forum for users of our services to enter into a dialogue with both researchers and practioners.
-*It makes available on the desktop what was once stored in libraries, making access free and timely.
-* ...
-* ...
-we need to build a tool that gives practioners a place to share their therapy ideas, offer feedback, and access the works of their peers. The successes of the free software movement and Wikipedia community provide models for the creation of a psychologists commons. Collaborative development, open content, and rigorous peer review nurtured the construction of a powerful operating system and comprehensive encyclopedia. Applied to the psychology community, these same principles can support the growth of a vast curriculum; diverse, freely available, and throughly documented.
+We address the second issue by citing the most relevant references in our discipline linking them to full text. Where this is not possible we will develop fuller, more useful summaries of papers than is currently available in abstracts. As each paper becomes freely accessible, it will have its own discussion page. We hope to stimulate more active debate on individual papers.
-===Information===
-*[[w:Start a new Wikicity|Started]]: 21 January, 2006.
-*[[w:Founders|Founder]]: [[User:Lifeartist]]
-*[[w:Languages|Main language]]: English
-*[[w:Help:Interwiki link|Interwiki link]]: [[w:c:psychology|Wikicities:c:psychology]]
-*[[w:Name for the wiki|URL]]: http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
-*[[Special:Activeusers|Current Active Contributors]]
+We address the third issue by encouraging input from other cultures in order to construct an international psychology which will be translated into the main languages of the world.
-===Funding===
+The overall aim is to have the full corpus of psychology knowledge freely available to all on the desktop.
-===Disclaimers===
+In order to do this we need your help. The task of unifying our discipline into an integrated and modern body of knowledge is too large for any small group of individuals. Only through the combined work of our entire psychology community will this task be possible.
+We urge you to contribute to this project in any way you can.
-'''Imagine''':
-An internet site containing a complete account of the psychology knowledge base with the following features:
-*	Available at no cost to either contributors or users.
-*	Unlimited in size.
-*	Available freely to all people in the world with internet access.
-*	Located on a set of duplicating servers providing local backup facilities.
-*	Written in a form that could be downloaded remotely and relocated if necessary.
-*	Owned by no particular institution or interest group.
-*	Managed and maintained by the collective efforts of academics, professionals and consumers involved in the field.
-*	Where the information was constantly updated. Where if a research article were published in a journal the author would update the knowledge base to reflect the new evidence and provide a reference to the paper.
-*	Where every significant study in psychology was referenced with links provided straight to a full copy of the  text and/or the Athens database summary if this was not available.
-*     Where electronic journals could be published with hypertext links to background information and the meanings of significant terms.
-*	Where practitioners could aggregate self help materials, test reviews, case study reports, clinical protocols and policies and more.
-*     Where academics could access lecture slide, lecture notes, student handouts and other support materials for each subject area within psychology.
-*     Where all contributions to the knowledge base are tracked and any individual contribution can be identified and printed out for CPD and academic record purposes.
-*	Where there was extensive linking between pages such that:
-**	Basic research areas were linked (e.g. genetic studies of depression with neurochemistry of depression, with neuroimaging etc...)
-**	These would be linked to practitioner pages to inform the development of treatments and maintain a dialogue between clinicians and researchers.
-**	Where consumers could gain information to inform their treatment, provide ideas to researchers and practitioners and develop their own networks with the professionals in the field.
-*	Where the full body of psychological knowledge could be translated into the major languages of the world (see Wikipedia). Through this, developing a truly international psychology.
-**	Providing in effect a hypertext textbook freely available to all students and trainees in the field around the world.
-**	That provides a conduit between science and society through which the advances funded by public money can be disseminated to those who have paid for it with their taxes.
-In the past attempts to provide such a site have foundered because the size of the task was beyond the resources of any team that could be put together.
+==See also==
-Now with the use of the software behind Wikipedia it is possible.
+*[[Orientation and possible uses of the site]]
-This allows web pages to be updated by a scholarly community who can work together over a period of time to amass all the information in proper academic detail.
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+[[Category:Psychology Wiki|A]]
-In effect this is the start of a further revolution in the knowledge economy that will require a cultural shift on our part.  Instead of being passive consumers of other peoples information we all become contributors to the community task of  building, maintaining and managing the knowledge base of our science in a new way.
-Psychology is at the forefront of this information revolution and you are cordially invited to come and participate.
-at The Psychology Wiki:
-http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
-If you care about knowledge and wish to give the gift to others then there is no better way than to create an account and contribute to this great enterprise.
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