Wikisummary

The primary purpose of this wiki would be academic: It would be aim to summarise books and academic articles in order that readers could get a quicker overview - as a student I am very aware of how often academic writers use 30 pages where 5 might do. By doing this, wikisummary would aim to make this accumulated human knowledge more accessible. In addition, and in keeping with the academic purpose of this wiki, each summary would have a space or a link for (opiniated) reviews by individuals, which would allow for different angles and debate.

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.

Status of the proposal
Status	rejected
Reason	no support. Pecopteris (talk) 14:49, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Technical requirements

Although I originally thought of this as aimed at academic books/literature, it could potentially also cover e.g. films

Proposed by

Iamsorandom (talk) 08:31, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Alternative names

Wikisum

Wikireview

Related projects/proposals

Wikireview

• Related, could have links to:*

wikibooks

Wikiversity

Wikiessay

Domain names

wikisummary.org wikisum.org

Demos

http://wikisum.com/w/WikiSummary:Welcome (No longer a wiki - failed to get contributions).

http://sqapo.com/index.htm - squashed philosophers; detailed but condensed versions of key philosophical texts.

http://www.imdb.com - IMDB.com - summaries and reviews of films.

People interested

r1xhard

1. R1xhard (talk)

Questions

Would reviews need to be protected so that they were normally only for editing by the original author? Or maybe they should only be edited for grammar/readibiity rather than content? Would this require software development?

"Would reviews need to be protected so that they were normally only for editing by the original author?" If that was the case, and I can't imagine why it would be, then there's no point in having a Wiki in the first place. QuiteUnusual (talk) 17:25, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

As suggested above, the point could be do to have a wiki-summary with multiple subjective reviews connected to that. Iamsorandom (talk) 15:23, 20 February 2014 (UTC)