WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2024-03-13
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Dates and locations:
- March 13, 2024 01:00 PM UTC
- March 13, 2024 10:00 PM UTC
Attendees edit
First Meeting edit
Second Meeting edit
- Ellen Sussman
- Alex Holcombe
Agenda edit
- Update on Journals
- WJS: Balancing publication # and articles that are too similar
- Grant Application
- Board updates
- Wikimania
Meeting Notes edit
Notes (First Meeting) edit
- WikiJMed update
- We are in the process of publishing one further pre-print from the backlog but no movement yet on the remainder. At Andrew Leung’s suggestion I have started simply allocating pre-prints to board members in the hope that they will respond and take them forward. Also, there is a backlog, which I have only discovered, of submissions. I receive no alerts related to these and have no idea to whom the responsibility belongs, but I have been given editing rights on the spreadsheet of submissions by Andrew and will start trying to process these gradually. However, I am not entirely sure that this is my role and if anyone else wishes to assume this I will not stand in their way. I would continue to keep an eye on pre-prints once they are up. I am now aware of:
- Author declaration sheet
- Uploaded pre-print files
- Lost password for author
- Create new account and link in user page
- We are in the process of publishing one further pre-print from the backlog but no movement yet on the remainder. At Andrew Leung’s suggestion I have started simply allocating pre-prints to board members in the hope that they will respond and take them forward. Also, there is a backlog, which I have only discovered, of submissions. I receive no alerts related to these and have no idea to whom the responsibility belongs, but I have been given editing rights on the spreadsheet of submissions by Andrew and will start trying to process these gradually. However, I am not entirely sure that this is my role and if anyone else wishes to assume this I will not stand in their way. I would continue to keep an eye on pre-prints once they are up. I am now aware of:
- WikiJSci update: accepting backlogged articles
- 2 published paper since 2024
- 3 more papers for consideration in the next month
- Concern by an editor - several bird species articles are similar (structure and content)
- Least publishable unit
- Grant application
- Partnership on PLoS (is the partnership still active)?
- Ellen to note things that need to improve on grant application
- Insurance cost - issue
- Will contact other chapters to find cheaper insurance with similar coverage
- Board Updates
- Keeping track of activeness in the board
- Send email notes
- Wikimania Poland (7-10 August)
- Andrew has a partial scholarship
- Starting to call for session presentations at Wikimania so we need to submit (beginning of april)
Notes (Second Meeting) edit
- Ideas for increasing engagement and building wikijournal
- Help group - pose questions to the community of editors
- Learning and support mapping to figure out how to support editors more
- Screen casts of how to do things as well as a document that is a simplified “how to” document
- Grant application
- Due on March 18th
- Need to incorporate more Wik citation metrics to show impact of WikiJournals on the wider wiki platform
- Future directions
- Understand PLOS partnership
- University incorporation