http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page- Rationale
The rationale for this site follows from our judgement that whatever
the considerable merits of Wikipedia, it could never gain the full
support of the academic and professional members of the discipline of
psychology as an approved information source.
Yet the technology holds out great promise for centrally
consolidating information in the science, providing a conduit for
authorative information for academic and applied training, and
continuing professional development, as well as providing a vehicle for
informing the general public about our discipline.
By developing a specialist site for psychology we hope to win
the support of the national psychology societies, and through them to
develop a mechanism of appropriate peer review of all articles and to
restrict contributors to those with professional qualifications. This
will allow articles to achieve academic status for referencing purpose
and eventually ground the content solidly in the knowledge base of the
discipline.
- Aim
We aim to provide an up-to-date, authoritative statement of
knowledge, theory, and practice in the whole field of psychology. The
site is written to serve both staff and students of our academic
community, to inform professionals, both in training and in the field,
and to provide information for the people we seek to help.
By using the latest collaborative editing software we have built a new kind of knowledge structure for our science that can be shaped and maintained, to the highest academic standards, by our profession as a whole.
We aim for factual accuracy and all articles should be properly referenced. We also aim to be a forum for ideas,
so on each discussion page we encourage alternative opinion, proposals
for hypotheses requiring verification, practitioner reports, user
views, etc.
For how this might be achieved see the Psychology Wik
