We explore how we might use a prototype "Wiki Laboratory" tool to create some academic grade results. Our first experiment is a sharing-centric tool for Exploratory Parsing semi-structured texts with a particular interest in Wikipedia dump files.
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Wikimedia's research mailing list ongoing discussion led to the notion of the laboratory. summary 
I was thinking about Federated Wiki contributing to scientific method when I made this observation and proposed this question:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ward wrote:
People should be able to publish their work as quickly as they like in a professional way, especially in fields that change rapidly and need to benefit from collaborating with one another.
What's the quickest way that we would ever want to publish our work? If we push on this hard enough we might change the nature of work. (I know, much in academia conspires against quick. Same for business and probably dating. But as a thought experiment, how quick could quick be?)
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Expanding the Role of Tools in a
Literate Programming Environment. Kent and I anticipate the integration of tools and publications.
The Humanities and Technology Camp has a similar agenda. Adam Solove has attended bringing his expertise in classical Chinese poetry. Darn. Just missed their one Portland event. website
Wikimedia Research Data lists available dumps and feeds from Wikimedia properties. Many tools exist to read dump format. meta
Txtzyme provides an extremely simple model of an experimental device. We've shown how specialized markup makes for sharable experimental setups. video
ARISE 2 Report Unleashing America’s Research & Innovation Enterprise from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
eLife Lens web-centric viewer associated with open-science initiative.