WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2019-10-30

WikiJournal User Group
Open access • Publication charge free • Public peer review • Wikipedia-integrated

Minutes originally drafted in Google doc and copied here after 48 hours

Attendees

Date: 11pm UTC 2 July 2019 (= 7pm EDT)

Agenda

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

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 Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020
- Need to add high priority items from WikiJournal/Technical_wishlist
- Talk to Open Journal Systems (~~openjournalsystems.com~~ pkp.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:
  - 10.15347/wjm/2014.010
  - WikiJournal_Preprints/Medical_gallery_of_Aria_Rad
- 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

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)