Joes redrafting of manifesto

The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online resource that places the entire body of psychology knowledge in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services.

There are two problems with the current state of the science. Firstly; psychology is composed of different and competing paradigms and perspectives, with researchers in different areas being unable to form an integrated model. Secondly; the vast majority of the knowledge is unaccessible to to the restrictive nature of the journal-subscription model and limited availability of research papers in libraries and electronic databases.

Our aim is to provide a framework within which these issues can start to be addressed. We look to work on the first problem by drawing research in all areas of psychology together in one place, where they can be hyperlinked, and studies at different levels of analysis can be integrated more effectively. The Psychology Wiki will act as a discussion forum for this research, and allow for the generation of new hypotheses and new theoretical models

We address the second issue by gathering together all the most relevant references in our science and attempting to link them to full text. Where this is not possible we will encourage authors to make available preprints or postprints. With each reference having its own discussion page we hope to stimulate more active debate on individual papers.

We envisage that an online resource, acting as a form of meta-textbook and containing the entirety of psychology knowledge, will enable individual collaborators to begin to integrate the vast and disparate knowledge. An internet community based user/contributor model, akin to that of Wikipedia, may allow psychologists to succeed in integrating our discipline where others in the past have failed.

In order to do this we need your help. The task of unifying our discipline into an integrated and modern science is simply too vast for any small group of individuals. Even the largest psychology department in the most elite and well funded institution could not do so. Only through the combined work of the entire psychology community will this task be possible.

I urge you to contribute to this project in any way you can.

Dr Joe Kiff ... etc... Mostly Zen  (talk ) 17:28, 17 July 2006 (UTC)