Update: The original SociJournals had a limitation, so I moved it. Here’s the new, improved (or at least more anonymous) version.
In my ever-broadening quest to help corral human knowledge on the internet, I have created a wiki. I am not going to monitor it, or police it in any way, because 1) I don’t have the time, and 2) I want to see what happens if no one moderates it.
It all started because I was up too late, reading blogs instead of sleeping, and lo! Some one suggested that a wiki might be useful for sociologists to post about their experiences with publishing at all the various journals of our discipline.I thought this was a brilliant idea and commenced creating one.
I give thee: SociJournals!
However, given that I am but a greenhorn, I have nothing to contribute content-wise. That is where you, dear published sociology person, come in. Please, don’t be shy! We all spend so much time commenting away on each others’ blogs, but no one wants to be the first person to talk about their publishing experience. Is it the email requirement? Perhaps the next time I can’t sleep I will find a different wiki hosting platform that doesn’t require an email address to edit.
i know you just got this up, but i think you are right to suspect that requiring an email address *may* stifle some people’s willingness to contribute to this sort of shared knowledge. Another option (which still tracks contributors’ IPs, but doesn’t require a login email) is the one used for the jobmarket rumormill – http://wikihost.org/list-en.
Yeah, it’s true! I will move it over to that one at some point.