Wikis (not Wikipedia) are presented as a compromise between collaborative scientific publishing and encyclopedic initiatives: open platforms edited by a large group of users with content control by a core group (people who have accumulated trust and expertise through sustained engagement with the digital infrastructure of the wiki and the topic), where it is possible to see revisions and comments. A wiki's core group can set up style guides and protocols for workflow, and future users work in the consensus of the core group. Ideally, the core group is not static and users can become a part, revising how the wiki is designed and operated. Also, a wiki is not meant to perform original research, but curate instances of knowledge creation so a user can get a dynamic, hyper-linked overview of a "field". Saying that, the authors offer an example of a wiki that integrates functions of a peer-reviewed scientific journal: Topic Pages by PLoS Computational Biology. With a static version of an article, Topic Pages will contain reviews and reviewer identities to be included later in Wikipedia.
