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The '''Psychology Wiki''' will allow for the development of an integrated model of psychology across the different fields of the science.
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Our Mission with '''Psychology Wiki''' is to give all people in the world free access to the sum total of Psychology knowledge as a 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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==Manifesto==
 
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==Vision==
   
 
The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online resource that places the entire body of Psychology as a discipline in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services.
 
The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online resource that places the entire body of Psychology as a discipline in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services.
   
The idea is to move away from the current state of the discipline, with different and competing paradigms and perspectives, and where the accumulated knowledge of countless psychology papers is inaccessible due to the nature of the journal publication model and instead move towards are more freely available and integrated discipline.
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There are two problems with the current state of the science. Firstly; psychology is composed of different and competing paradigms and perspectives, with researchers in different areas being unable to form an integrated model. Secondly; the vast majority of the knowledge is unaccessible to to the restrictive nature of the journal-subscription model and limited availability of research papers in libraries and electronic databases.
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We predict that in the future, knowledge will be paid for in individual, small currency transactions, for say, one '''pdf'' paper at a time, as desired. After an initial period of earning money from the investment of time spent in research, the data would then be made freely available to all people, for the sake of the knowledge of humanity.
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The Psychology Wiki will be able to act as a discussion forum for all this latest research, allowing people to make informed decisions to purchase individual pieces of research as desired, from external databases. We also aim to have as many free to download papers linked to on site as are currently available.
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We envisage that an online resource, acting as a form of meta-textbook and containing the entirety of psychology knowledge, will enable individual collaborators to begin to integrate the vast and disparate knowledge. An internet community based user/contributor model, akin to that of Wikipedia, may allow psychologists to succeed in integrating our discipline where others in the past have failed.
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In order to do this we need '''your''' help. The task of unifying our discipline into an integrated and modern science is simply to vast for any small group of individuals. Only through the combined work of the community will this task be possible.
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I urge you to contribute to this project.
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[[User:Mostly Zen|<font color="666666">Mostly Zen</font>]] [[Image:Baby_tao.jpg]] ([[User talk:Mostly Zen|<font color="Blue" size="1">talk</font>]]) 17:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
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The Psychology Wiki will eventually provide Psychology knowledge on the desktop, instead of in libraries and limited journal subscriptions, so that it is available in a free and timely manner, to all people who may need it.
 
   
   
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This contrasts with the current larger amounts of currency spent on a 12 month subscription for a journal, which may contain many articles/research that is not specifically desired.
 
===Integration & Free flow of Ideas===
 
===Integration & Free flow of Ideas===
 
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* Aims, free distribution & integration of Psychology discipline

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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
That's what we're doing."
— Jimbo Wales [1]

Our Mission with Psychology Wiki is to give all people in the world free access to the sum total of Psychology knowledge as a 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.


Vision

The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online resource that places the entire body of Psychology as a discipline in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services.

There are two problems with the current state of the science. Firstly; psychology is composed of different and competing paradigms and perspectives, with researchers in different areas being unable to form an integrated model. Secondly; the vast majority of the knowledge is unaccessible to to the restrictive nature of the journal-subscription model and limited availability of research papers in libraries and electronic databases.

We predict that in the future, knowledge will be paid for in individual, small currency transactions, for say, one 'pdf paper at a time, as desired. After an initial period of earning money from the investment of time spent in research, the data would then be made freely available to all people, for the sake of the knowledge of humanity.

The Psychology Wiki will be able to act as a discussion forum for all this latest research, allowing people to make informed decisions to purchase individual pieces of research as desired, from external databases. We also aim to have as many free to download papers linked to on site as are currently available.

We envisage that an online resource, acting as a form of meta-textbook and containing the entirety of psychology knowledge, will enable individual collaborators to begin to integrate the vast and disparate knowledge. An internet community based user/contributor model, akin to that of Wikipedia, may allow psychologists to succeed in integrating our discipline where others in the past have failed.

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

I urge you to contribute to this project.

Mostly Zen Baby tao (talk) 17:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


Details

This contrasts with the current larger amounts of currency spent on a 12 month subscription for a journal, which may contain many articles/research that is not specifically desired.

Integration & Free flow of Ideas

  • Aims, free distribution & integration of Psychology discipline

Content

  • Text book quality content, with full academic referencing.
  • Articles with extensive cross linking: Biopsychological perspectives being easily contrasted with cognitive or humanistic approaches, using internal linking, which is impossible with textbooks.
  • Course content for training courses in both Academic (university, pre and post graduate level) and Practitioner (Trainee & CPD level).

Referencing

  • Full academic referencing throughout. APA style has been chosen as the project standard.
  • Links to full text of papers, either on or off site (otherwise not available)
  • Paper discussion online (check Abstract copyright issue)

For Academics

Discussion of latest research at present takes place in reviews within academic journals, and between colleagues within institutions. Academics need a forum to discuss the latest research with one another if Psychology is ever to realise its aim of becoming an integrated and unified discipline. The role of the Psychology Wiki in this aim is:

  • To provide a forum to discuss new papers as and when they are published.
  • Access to Abstracts on site (copyright permitting).
  • Access to full text of papers (in .pdf format) on or off-site.
  • A place to present their research, either on site, or linked to their personal web sites.

For Practitioners

There is a need for a tool that gives practioners a place to share their therapy ideas, offer feedback, and access the works of their peers. Such a resource will:

  • Allow practitioners to reflect on their experience.
  • Share their ideas with one another and offer feedback on each others work.
  • Read the experiences of service users and gain insight into their perspective.

For Service Users

There is a need for users of psychology and psychiatric services to be heard. People who may be suffering from mental illness are entitled to as much of an input in the development of psychology as the Academics and Practitioners. The vision for the service users is:

  • Parallel information on relevant subjects, written in a more accessible style.
  • A forum to express their ideas, seperate from the academic side, but accessible by both groups, so that users of our services to enter into a dialogue with both researchers and practioners.
  • A place to express experiences of psychological issues, such as depression, from their perspective.

Different from Wikipedia in that:

  • Giant textbook rather than encyclopedia (more detail, depth & specialist info)
  • It provides content that goes beyond that presented to the general reader, content specifically written for academic and professional psychologists.



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.

  • Free knowledge distribution model rather than the current journal subscription model (careful cos we dont want to piss them off!)

Can ANYONE contribute to it?

When people first hear about the Wiki model of user driven content, they tend to worry that the quality of the articles will be poor, or that vandalism will be a serious issue. Whilst these issues do exist, they are far less harmful than one might imagine for the following reasons:

  • Most people will not vandalize a web page, in the same way that most people will not vandalize a text book. The anonymity of the internet does not stop many people from following conventional social norms of behaviour.
  • Vandalism to a page can be easily and quickly fixed by reverting to an earlier version.
  • People tire of vandalism far more quickly than committed contributors tire of writing articles.
  • If people see that an article's content is of a good quality, they are hesitant to edit it.
  • If people see that an article's quality is of poor quality, they tend to either:
    • Improve the article
    • Tag the article for improvement
    • Or discuss how the article can be improved in its talk page.

Later contributors are in effect, peer reviewing the material written by other contributors. An expert in a field, should they encounter errors, will likely fix them, whereas a novice is less likely to interfere.

The continuous improvement of articles through changes by contributors, of which only the good changes are kept in the long run, is analogous to the evolutionary theory of artificial selection. In time, through selection, the Psychology Wiki should evolve into a high quality, thoroughly researched and referenced online resource.

Information


Administrators


Funding

The Psychology Wiki and its founders make no money from this site. It is an entirely voluntary operation deseminating copyright free psychology information. Our goal is to share, without costs of any kind, psychology knowledge between academic and professional psychologists and with a wider audience of non-psychologists.

The Google advertisements to the right hand pane on your screen are part of the business funding model of Wikia Inc.. They host the wiki, providing the technical facilities, bandwidth, storage, backup and technical support for the site for free, as they do for other Wikia sites. Their declared intention is to do this in perpetuity, the company making its profit via the advertisments. Wikia was set up by the founders of Wikipedia as another approach to making knowlege available, without cost, to the people of the world.

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Disclaimers

Please Note:
Psychology and medicine are changing sciences and not all therapies are clearly established. New research changes treatment and therapy recommendations daily. The contributors to the Psychology Wiki have used their best efforts to provide information that is up-to-date and accurate and reflects generally accepted academic standards at the time of publication. However, as our science is constantly changing and human error possible, the contributors to this article do not warrant the information as accurate or complete, nor are they responsible for omissions or errors in the article or for the results of using this information. The reader should confirm the information in this article from other sources prior to use. See full disclaimer for further statement.




The information given on this website, is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. If you have a medical or psychological problem, or are taking prescribed medication, please consult with your doctor.