WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2019-10-30
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- Minutes originally drafted in Google doc and copied here after 48 hours
Attendees edit
Agenda edit
- Update on action items from July
- Set up meeting for technical aspects (Thomas Shafee)
- Sister project application
- Thematic Organisation application
- WMF Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020
- How best to advertise the $1,000 available for technical editor role?
- Expansion and streamlining
- Standardised Data on Initiatives - Update
- Non-editorial board member has applied to be Treasurer - how best to vet? X
- For articles to be integrated into Wikipedia, when to get wikipedian feedback? X
- Especially by non-wikipedian authors X
- Dimensions and Altmetrics badges and readcube indexing X
Ran out of time before full agenda finished (marked ‘X’)
Notes edit
- Mailing list for members interested in technical aspects
- Please add Eyoungstrom to thread
- + Felipe to technical meeting list
- Sister project application
- WMF board to meet February 11/12th of 2020
- What can be improved before Feb 11/12 to make project as likely?
- Sum up the main arguments against the project proposal
- Clarify the potential of the project in relation to the strategic direction
- WMF board to meet February 11/12th of 2020
- WMF Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020
- Need to add high priority items from WikiJournal/Technical_wishlist
- Talk to Open Journal Systems (
openjournalsystems.compkp.sfu.ca/ojs/)about some sort of plugin to manage submission and workflow? url corrected 2019-11-29 - Flow/VE for talkpages (may be possible to just request on ‘colloquium’)?
- Thematic Organisation application
- Additional question added by Affcom & responded to
- How best to advertise the $1,000 available for technical editor role?
- Test having set amount per task (e.g. typeset manuscript = $100)
- Transparent about recording what was done
- Monitor how fast pool of money is used up to estimate future grants
- How to avoid exploitative practices of ‘microtasks’?
- Expansion and streamlining
- How to grow more article submissions?
- E.g. image articles:
- How to improve/simplify participation?
- Request enabling Flow/StructuredDiscussions on Wikiversity
- Interwiki transclusion
- of articles to make WP:JAN simple
- of templates to reduce the number of single-use templates
- Outreach to Open Science Grassroots Community Networks? (email list)
- Standardised Data on Initiatives - Update
- Summary here: https://scienceforall.world/stardit/
- Pre-print here: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/5q47h
- ASHG poster here: https://doi.org/10.26181/5da78c5ced9d5
- Added after meeting:
- Dimensions and Altmetrics badges and readcube indexing
- Info from Director, Global Publisher Business Development
- No tracking of user data
- Dimensions badge use free with indexing (freemium for additional analytics)
- Altmetrics badges GBP640-800 per journal (for up to 50 articles per annum)
- On-wiki test page https://wikipediajournal.com/Test_badges
- Readcube indexing is free if we can set up automated FTP of articles
Action items edit
- Share these minutes to metawiki with any confidential info redacted
- This Google Doc will be emailed to the boards immediately (Thomas Shafee)
- Its contents will be posted to a public wiki page after 48 hours to give time for any additional notes to be added, and any private info redacted (Thomas)
- Organise next meeting (Kelee)
- Thinking of wikijournal as a friendly place for free-softwaretarians (people who don’t eat proprietary software or closed-source software)
- Future agendas, meeting notes and such on-wiki?
- Contact OJS (Thomas)
- Explore how other parts of Wikimedia Foundation advertise, recruit and pay people for work in an inclusive way (Working group)
- Create test extension for inter-wiki transclusion (Felipe)