Post #3096696
2025-09-03 20:12 UTC
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@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org 2025-09-04 05:31
@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz I understand the idea, but I think research articles are different from social media and Wikipedia and that there is some value in them becoming frozen when they are published. I definitely don't want to be prodded to go back and edit something I wrote 5 or 10 years ago, and I see a serious trap here for the kinds of people who have trouble letting things be. I have known several people who would I can imagine would have gotten stuck constantly editing an already published article if that had been possible. I would be fine the with the possibility of releasing a new version if a serious error comes to light. But allowing minor revisions at any time after publication? I don't see any need for that, and I see a lot of possible downside.
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@brembs@mastodon.social 2025-09-04 07:21
@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz @skyglowberlin@fediscience.org Yes! As long as there is a clear record of all the versions, it is easy to see which version was cited and one can even set up alerts for when a version gets changed, e.g. for the most important publications in the field, or particularly contentious ones. Probably like Wikipedia, the number of scholarly publications with many version will be really low?