The main reason for that is that there is an established reputation system for papers, namely journals, but there isn't one for content formats that aren't papers - data-sets, code, videos, images etc.
Part of what Academia.edu is doing is building a new reputation system in science based on audience metrics: how many people have read your papers, from which countries; how many followers you have etc. We are then attaching various kinds of scientific media to that reputation system in order to accelerate sharing.
The idea is that if you can build your reputation by sharing your data-sets, you're likely to consider doing it.
Both I suppose, I think it would be interesting to browse Wikipedia and have access to actual peer reviewed science (with all the accompanying data). I am aware the wiki articles are supposed to be sourced, but that can be hit and miss.
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I ... thought the internet already did that.
Currently 75% of the world's scientific data isn't shared. http://codata2012.tw/news/75-of-research-data-is-never-made-...
The main reason for that is that there is an established reputation system for papers, namely journals, but there isn't one for content formats that aren't papers - data-sets, code, videos, images etc.
Part of what Academia.edu is doing is building a new reputation system in science based on audience metrics: how many people have read your papers, from which countries; how many followers you have etc. We are then attaching various kinds of scientific media to that reputation system in order to accelerate sharing.
The idea is that if you can build your reputation by sharing your data-sets, you're likely to consider doing it.
This could potentially be an interesting thing to incorporate with Wikipedia.
Do you mean having a reputation system on Wikipedia, or the ability to put data-sets on Wikipedia?
Both I suppose, I think it would be interesting to browse Wikipedia and have access to actual peer reviewed science (with all the accompanying data). I am aware the wiki articles are supposed to be sourced, but that can be hit and miss.