Hi all,
Let me know if you have any further comments regarding the grant
application I'm about to make for having WikiJournal trademarked, and a
bank account for WikiJournal of Medicine.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiJournal_2017>
I had to mark it as personal, since an organization type requires such a
bank account beforehand.
Also, when corresponding with the grant team, I'm intending to state that
we *do not *support Philip's $15.000 grant application
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Philip/WikiJournal.org/WikiJ…>
.
Best regards,
Mikael
Hi
I have made a submission for a presentation at Wikimania 2017:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/WikiJournal_as_a_Bridg…
Feel free to provide suggestions, update the proposal directly or to mark
your willingness to attend the session. In case you are attending Wikimania
and are willing to participate in a brief panel discussion following the
lecture, please indicate and plans can be made accordingly.
Regards
Diptanshu
Please do not print this e-mail unless you really need to.
Hi all,
There's been some further discussion at:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Integration_of_…
I think Philip needs to choose whether he primarily wants to be an author
or an editorial board member of a wikijournal, because it would be an
obvious conflict of interest if he was both.
We also need to to know what Philip is willing to do with the
wikijournal.org domain. If he doesn't want to donate it, I think it's in
order to apply for a Wikimedia grant to buy it from him for perhaps $300,
which I think is in the order of what he payed for it.
Best regards,
Mikael
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: NarayanChandra Ghosh <sis2017(a)iicb.res.in>
Date: 18 March 2017 at 23:46
Subject: Acceptance of Submitted Abstract for Presentation - SIS2017
To: das.diptanshu(a)gmail.com
*Dear Author(s),*
We are happy to inform you that your submission entitled *WikiJournal - A
new form of open access publishing* has been accepted for presentation in
the Conference on *Öpen Access: The Road to Freedom* and 33rd Annual
Convention of the Society for Information Science (SIS) to be held at
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, (Kolkata) during April 7-8
2017.
Therefore you are requested to make your convenience to prepare your
presentation along with the registration formalities you require for the
purpose. You will be given approximately 7 minutes time for the power point
presentation of your work, but the same may be shorten due to time
constraints (if so arises).
The abstract will be considered for inclusion in the programme schedule as
well as in Pre-conference Souvenir, only after your registration latest by
31 March 2017. However, you are requested to register (online) at an
earliest possible to avoid inconveniences to the organizers.
Your cooperation in this regard will be highly solicited. Online
registration form is accessible from*:*
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdY4ujon8YF3iKiV5hR6I42
bszb4hz3x_wp3q1EoWGEsA-5xQ/viewform?c=0&w=1
Thanking you,
*Review Committee, SIS-2017*
*======================*
Hi all WikiJournal (at Wikiversity) participants!
So, there's been a major discussion about whether we should merge our
project with the one located at www.wikijournal.org, maintained by Philip
<https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fokebox&action=edit&redli…>
:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Developing_Wiki…
I've discussed this in the board of WikiJournal of Medicine
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Editors>, and
unfortunately it seems the aims of our project and that of Philip are
too different.
Mainly, he does not intend to implement peer review as a prerequisite for
article publication. With merely editorial review, the project would
essentially add nothing to the world, since there are already Wikipedia
articles with protection <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Protection>,
which basically works the same way. Also, as seem at his grant proposal to
Wikimedia Foundation,
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Philip/WikiJournal.org/WikiJ…>
he has a vision of an "incorporated company", with huge monetary demands as
compared to for example the Wiki.J.Med budget
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Financials>.
Besides, as Thomas has pointed out:
"Although the domain wikijournal.org would be useful, there are plenty of
other viable options. Being journal.wikimedia.org would be completely fine.
So would wikipublish.org, or even wikijournal*s*.org. Searching
"wikijournal" on google finds us before wikijournal.org, and I suspect that
that will continue given googles algorithms. The WMF has a legal department
better able to answer trademark issues. If we wanted to be more sure of our
future position, we could ask the WMF to look into trademarking relevant
terms etc."
So, unless you disagree, I will shortly decline a merger. Philip would
still be welcome to join our project, with our mission
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group>, "to publish
scholarly works with no cost for the authors, apply quality checks on
submissions by expert peer review, and make accepted works available on the
Internet free of charge, in perpetuity." (Still, feel free to suggest
changes in this wording.)
Best regards,
Mikael