WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2021-12-03

WikiJournal User Group
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Attendees

Date: Friday 3 Dec @ 10pm UTC (=5 pm EST)
Location: https://latrobe.zoom.us/j/146572445
Collaborative note-taking: gdoc

Thomas Shafee
Kelee Pacion
Andrew Leung
Jack Nunn
Gwinyai Masukume
Sarah Vital (Humanities)

Apologies

Roger Watson

Agenda

5 min: Summary of 2021
3 min: update from Strategy Liaison (Jack Nunn)
40 min: Formation of working groups:
- Quality improvements & indexing (e.g. Pubmed Central feedback)
- Technical development (e.g. Open Journal Systems extension)
- Partnership-forming and outreach
- Video content (and social media combined?)
- Peer review turnaround whips
- HR, finance, grants, reports
- Others? Combinations?
15 min: Ideas for 2022

Notes

background

30-min summary presentation at doi:10.26181/5ed388168ae4b Follow us at twitter on @WikiJMed \| @WikiJSci \| @WikiJHum See out application to the WMF to found a sister project site Join the WikiJournals general mailing list Read this piece in the Signpost

PLOS started sharing our preprints area (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/PLOS)
- Currently using a mix of wikijournal templates and PLOS templates adapted from topicpageswiki.plos.org
- Useful for consolidating/combining efforts
Final required forms sent through to tech editors
- Taken longer than expected but final paperwork should be done by end of year
Funding applied for 2022 through WMF
Strategy Liaison update:
- I'm always here to advocate if people have issues they'd like raising
- Wiki Enterprise has moved forward too - and Thomas and I have reached out to explore ways that both the Wiki Journals and the STARDIT work might be useful to that project
- I'm now on the Cochrane Council and leading the Values statement develop work and there are opportunities to align the values of Cochrane and the Wikimedia Foundation, and more technical ways of collaborating
Can we look at working with people more in developing and lower-income countries
- (see Ukrainian WikiJournal of Science’s potential special issue as a possibility of engaging both authors, editors and readers)
- Can we also have a strategy to work with Indigenous peoples and working (in line with UN statement on Indigenous peoples)
- Have had initial meetings with AfricArxiv (1, 2)
Acknowledgement that we are all volunteers and we need to think more strategically about how we seek funding to pay people for their time
- In order to be inclusive and transparent we need to articulate which tasks we think it’s ok to ask people to volunteer time on, and which ones, ideally, people would be paid for
- Ensure that excess responsibility for time-critical tasks isn’t too centralized onto a few people
We need to re-group within the Journals to prioritise next steps, including:
- Working groups- longer term, example of Communications/Social media/Video creation group (this group also needs to regroup and revitalize)
- Task groups- short term tasks that once are done the group disbands (e.g. seeking funding for certain ongoing tasks in the Wiki Journals)
- A “HR, finance, grants, reports” group may discuss the possibility of appointing a paid CEO (after the onboarding of technical editors is complete), to basically deal with more tedious administrative tasks, giving more time for editorial board members and volunteer editors to deal with their scholarly activities. Tasks of a CEO may include drafting grant applications and reports, and coordinating tech editors.

Action Items

Agree priority tasks (using method to be determined) and form working groups or task groups to achieve those. Suggested priorities. In addition to the working groups listed above included:
- Establish a working group to support funding applications (from within Wikimedia and externally)