WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2023-05-03
WikiJournal User Group
Open access • Publication charge free • Public peer review • Wikipedia-integrated
Dates and locations:
- May 3, 2023 12:00 PM UTC
- May 3, 2023 10:00 PM UTC
Attendees[edit]
First Meeting[edit]
Second Meeting[edit]
Agenda[edit]
- Status update on in-progress articles from each journal
- Timely decisions on editorial board applications
- WikiJMed: 3
- WikiJSci: 2
- WikiJSci Editor in Chief role handover
- WikiConference North America 2023
- Any additional people wishing to attend Wikimania?
- Web_of_Science application
Meeting Notes[edit]
Notes (First Meeting)[edit]
Role changes
- Thomas is stepping down as WJS editor in chief position to pursue the executive director
- Andrew will be taking over the role. He will be handing over the managing editor role to another individual in the future
WJM
- # of outstanding articles are down and making progress
- Those that are outstanding tend to be slow due to reviewer situation
WJS
- Trained Alex on how to recruit peer reviewers
- Nature uses “peer review support” which is similar to technical editor
- Will need to start assigning outstanding articles to editors
WJH
- There is some movement on the article (Orhan Gazi, the first statesman)
- Two reviews were submitted despite having no official handling editor according to Wikidata
Editorial board applications
- A few have been in the voting phase for months, even though bylaw calls for a voting period of 7 days
- Some of them appear to be drive-by applications. They signed up an account and submitted their applications, but never returned to answer follow-up questions.
- Thomas to remind editorial board about open applications. Will send reminder emails to applicants to check the page and answer follow-up questions (only this time). Want to keep the voting period to 7 days
- Application statements tend to be shorter than what we would have liked
- The application instruction should be revised to encourage longer statement
WikiConference North America 2023
- Will be in Toronto (Hybrid in person + virtual)
- Nov 10-13, 2023
- 200-300 attendee expectations
- Theme: Recent Changes
- Depending on the leftover budget, we can send more editorial board members to attend closer to time
- Added after by Mikael Haggstrom: No extra budget currently for conference attendees outside of planned activities. Please ask Sarah about all budgetary requests as she is currently handling all finances and expenses
Wikimania
- 16–19 August 2023 Singapore (Hybrid in person + virtual)
- Added after by Mikael Haggstrom: Have budget for maximum 2 board member attendees with limited expenditures to attend. Possibly will be with a grant style application for attendance. Neither Sarah nor I will not be attending.
At conferences aimed outside wiki community
- Need to streamline the existing PowerPoint presentations to be more focused on targeting higher-ed audience at EduWiki Conference
- Andrew Neil is refreshing all powerpoints. Please reach out to him with any questions.
- Try to attract more editorial board members
- Clarify that boards are looking to expand without being too aggressive to clearly avoid the appearance of predatory open access journals
Web of Science application
- They will look at the article content and editorial board composition
- Guidelines pretty vague
Notes (Second Meeting)[edit]
Wikiconference North America
- In toronto (in person and online - hybrid)
- Nov 10-13
- Theme “Recent changes”
- Potential $20 registration fee (not open currently)
- Presentation submissions at the end of june (likely)
Presentation overhaul
- Create one-pager
- EduWiki Conference in 3 weeks
- 25 mins - presentation format (+/- Q and A)
- Target for University Professor
- Andrew to send an email to Andrew N. for ideas on what to include in this specialized powerpoint presentation
- Existing ppt slides that could be adapted in google drive folder “Presentation slides”
- Create one pager about us i.e. with QR code about WikiJournal
- Collaborate Andrew and Andrew N. & Ellen
- May be able to get metrics as well to see engagement
Comment about quality of figures generated in Word
- Potentially update the word document template or move away from word (word decreases quality of images with .svg files)
- Make sure to check image quality before publishing (both figures and logos)