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<center>''"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. <br>That's what we're doing."'' — Jimbo Wales [http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230]</center> |
<center>''"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. <br>That's what we're doing."'' — Jimbo Wales [http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230]</center> |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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===Integration & Free flow of Ideas=== |
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* Aims, free distribution & integration of Psychology discipline |
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