WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2020-10-09
WikiJournal User Group
Open access • Publication charge free • Public peer review • Wikipedia-integrated
Attendees
editDate: Friday, 9 October 2020 at 12:00 pm UTC
- Thomas Shafee
- Alaa Najjar
- Candace Makeda Moore
- Roger Watson
- Kelee Pacion
- Angelo Basteris
- Mikael Häggström
- Gwinyai Masukume
- Andrew Leung
- Yulia Sevryugina
- Apologies
Agenda
edit- Review list of submissions and identify any that need discussion during call
- Technical editor position is vacant.
- How best to find potential applicants?
- Increase hourly salary to have more candidates?
- Mentored student and early career editors
- Prototype example Program at J Pediatric Psychology: Description of program and Survey & outcomes
- Proposal for Annual Planning Grant to cover journal back office, technical etc?
- Other things on wish list?
- Issue of create a YouTube video for the [article name redacted] article on WikiJMed
- New Wikidata overview
Notes
edit- In absentia from Jack Nunn:
- For grant, budget for developers to support creating new online tools
- Make sure technical editor pay is a living wage in the country where the person is based?
- Discussion of articles in process
- Peer review coordinators needed
- Discussion of the need to ensure someone from each WikiJ is able to attend the meeting (may not use how many can attend in favor of even coverage of journals)
- Technical editor discussion
- Example previous application
- How to reach out to potential applicants
- What is an appropriate salary?
- Raising salary would increase interest and ability
- Possibility to accept current students in this role
- If change salary, should also re-contact previous technical editor to see if changes mind.
- Should give more info on expected times (weekly total, and per task)
- Selected $20 an hour at 5 hours a week
- Mentored student and early career editors
- Mentioned briefly in possible technical editor(s) discussion
- Not gone in depth as main relevant editor not present for details
- Question from new member
- No welcome message (area of opportunity for us)
- Need to understand our role
- Looking at onboarding checklist, looks like it wasn’t completed. TS will send email.
- Annual planning grant
- We are applying to become a thematic organization
- Criteria for annual plan grant is changed and we are now eligible
- Indeed, we may no longer be eligible for rapid grant (technical editor)!
- Capacity building. How have other thematic organizations handled this?
- Need people with wikipedia grant experience to create the basic grant frame for the rest of us to fill out (Alaa and Gwinyai volunteer to start)
- Items to estimate costs to include:
- Technical editor(s) for simple processes / metadata checking
- Developers & project manager for interface / tool improvements
- Wish list (more in-depth descriptions needed for developers)
- Especially Open Journal Systems integration
- Multiple strong support expressed
- Presentation at conferences (with some capped cost)
- Invited speakers to our public meetings-stipend for speakers
- Professional bodies (OASPA?)
- Youtube vid production takes a lot of time.
- Question of timing with making videos before articles are accepted versus delaying publication after acceptance to give Makeda (and/or others) more time to finish and release everything in time to synch vid and article release.
- Why need to begin video prep early:
- video editing can take 10s of hours
- Synchronised publication and video increases reach & impact
- Why authors may be cautious of being interviewed before article accepted
- Cautious of wasting time if rejected?
- Cautious of making erroneous comment that has to be changed during review?
- Misunderstanding that video might be released before article acceptance?
- Need to check with authors reason for not wanting to interview currently to allay specific fears.
- WikiData
- Can store all article, author, editor, reviewer data on WikiData and connect to our articles
- Info from Wikidata will synchronise across to article, talkpage, issue summary, wikipedia copy (when relevant) and ensure Scholia is up to date
- Example Article and its Wikidata Item
- Authors that currently lack a wikidata item can be included as ‘author name string’
- Author name strings can later be disambiguated with author-disambiguator.toolforge.org