Talk:Web science
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I find this article remarkably free of information. Actually it says nothing. Is "Web Science" vacuous, or is it just like other subjects with "science in their title? Jpff (talk) 16:12, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Obviously this article does say nothing. The topic of "web science" though has a large literature. The difference between the two has more to do with petty-minded WP behaviour by a handful of "established" editors than it does with a shortage of subject matter. The web never needs Wikipedia, nor does web science. Acting as if it does, and if Wikipedia coverage is some vital ambrosia to only be distributed to the worthy, hurts WP more than it hurts the subjects. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:48, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Rename to Web science
[edit]Web Science → Web science – Per capitalisation conventions, but there's a redir in the way. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:49, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Proposal to Revise Article
[edit]As an outsider and novice researcher in computational social sciences, I feel that while the topic of web science remains relevant, the term itself seems to have fallen out of use within the society. This could be due to the emergence of more specific research areas that overlap with web science, such as Data Science, AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computational Social Science (CSS), and others. Additionally, when searching for "web science" on Google Scholar, there's a noticeable decline in published articles, suggesting that the field may have peaked in the late 2000s.
In conclusion, I suggest revising the article to focus on the history of web science, highlighting its prominence in the 2000s and its evolution into more specialized fields after 2013. While I’m not an expert on the subject, this is my impression based on my evaluation of the article. — ~~~~ falter (talk) 23:06, 21 September 2024 (UTC)