Re: Trying to find some space for research paper.


| Here's what I'd like to do folks, we're gonna write a paper
collectively,
| public is invited, everyone welcome, anyone can get their name on this
| thing.
|
| We develop a paper, and in a couple weeks we'll send it in to the APA -
| collectively
|
| I need a place to put it where anyone can edit the draft or doccument
the
| research that they have done. I have already encountered the Wikipedia
| police, and so I'm thinking to put it on a public editable blog instead.
|
| Any suggestions ?
|
| I'm trying to put something together that will be something like the
GIMPS
| (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), except that this will be more of
a
| theoretical work.
|
| The central idea is already in place, just need some help making things
| percise, and probably some research for prior work. The neat thing is
that
| we can have as many contributors as we want, anyone cen get their name
on
| it, and if there is no prior work like this then it would probably be
| accepted somewhere.
|
| Any takers ? Tips ?
|

Yes. I have a newsgroup, hogwarts.physics, a highly exclusive newsgroup
that only I can edit. You can do the same, create a new newsgroup anyone
can read but only a select few can write and which you can moderate.
Go to Google Groups and follow instructions on how to set it up.
You HAVE to keep the trolls out, that's a simple fact of life.
Keep in mind that if anyone can edit it, you'll need to police it.
Potential contributors should APPLY for editing privileges which
only you can grant or revoke.

Disagreement in inevitable.
I too ran foul of the Wackypedia police, the Wakypedia police
are as prejudiced as any other.
Chris Hillman and Ed Schaefer are not honest, they claim that special
relativity is based on only two premises whereas in fact the third
premise, essential to the paper, is Einstein's own definition
of time. That Einstein calls this a definition and not a postulate is
a semantic issue, but I was not able to overcome prejudice.

A "couple of weeks" is highly optimistic unless the paper is trivial,
few Ph.D candidates will produce a thesis in that time frame and
what you suggest would take far longer as disagreements are resolved
or not as the case may be. A year is more realistic.

It could be that you disagree with me already, and that is precisely the
kind of disagreement I'm talking about. If you want it to work, you'll
have to be the Managing Director/President and treat contributors as
employees. You can appoint Vice Presidents to assist, but the
inevitable thunder stealing will occur as one contributor rewrites
another contributor's words in a different style. So your first VP
should be a competent editor with overall responsibility for the final
version.

It may seem that I'm pessimistic to you, but I'm trying to be optimistic
and offer encouragement. You'll be opening a can of worms, but if
you want to try it then good luck, you'll have your work cut out in
administration. Being a realist I predict it will fail, I've had seven
years
experience with sci newsgroups and a career in industry. Success
depends not only on good employees but on good management as
well. I have to tell you that the reward offered -- having one's name
on a collective paper -- doesn't really interest me personally but it may
be sufficient stimulus to others.


Androcles


Yeah - I know. The idea does seem completely half baked, and even a bit
stupid. But hey - I'm not a professional academic, so I dont really have all
that much to gain from getting published anyway, and it might be kind of
fun. Besides - would'nt it be a kick in the ass to look back one day and say
"Once upon a time, when UseNet was still quite young, some loonie amateurs
created a paper and actually got uit published" -


gotta run - the wife








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