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The fifth edition of the EFC Research Forum Stakeholders' Conference drilled down beyond the buzzword that "social innovation" has become in the corridors of public-benefit foundations and their partners in recent years by examining some key areas that are driving social innovation in research forward. Topics addressed included:   * The potential for foundations to spearhead socially innovative research * The impact of social media and networks on research * Open access and the challenge of quality assurance * Public participation in science: new modes of interaction

Jimmy Wales, the iconoclastic founder of Wikipedia, made a troubling announcement at the seventh annual Wikipedia conference: Nobody wants to edit Wikipedia anymore. Is Wikipedia going to shrivel up and fade away? Wales told the AP that the number of Wikipedia editors is slowly dwindling.

Research 2.0 deals with the involvement of the web in science. It spans from the utilization of Web 2.0 tools and technologies in research to a more open and sharing approach to science. Some definitions of Research 2.0 even include notions of a methodological change due to the abundance of data, and the nature of the socio-technical systems on the web.