Wikipedia becomes an add-on to scientific papers - or vice versa

I still have a few colleagues who disdain Wikipedia and who tell our students not to use Wikipedia. These colleagues may have to adapt quickly.

Under the title "Publish in Wikipedia or perish - Journal to require authors to post in the free online encyclopaedia" naturenews reports, "RNA Biology will require Wikipedia pages from all authors who submit work to a new section of the journal, to be launched later this week, that describes families of RNA molecules. The first paper scheduled is "A Survey of Nematode SmY RNAs"1; its corresponding Wikipedia summary can be found here.
The goal is to encourage more scientists who work on RNA to get involved in creating and updating public data on RNA families, while being rewarded by the traditional method of a citable publication, ..."