WikiJournal-en October 2019

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Wikimedia community wishlist (WikiJournal items)

by Thomas Shafee

Wikimedia has just opened this year's community wishlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020> for new software features. It's focused on the smaller projects this year, so might be relevant to WikiJournals. > We could include some items from the WikiJournal technical wishlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal/Technical_wishlist> (espec those that might be relevant to multiple projects). We should make sure we're transparent about which ones would be useful for multiple projects and which just for WikiJournals. Whilst the project is hosted within Wikiversity, that'd be the logical category to tag. Would anyone be happy to help out with this? All the best, Thomas >From Wikimedia: "The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020> is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on November 11, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. To submit proposals, you can check out the guidelines on the survey page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020#Guidelines>. This year, we’ll only be accepting wishes for non-Wikipedia content projects with no dedicated teams (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). To learn more about the new format, we invite you to visit the survey page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020#New_format_f…>. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!"

4 years, 6 months

Re: [WikiJournal-en] WikiJournal-en Digest, Vol 29, Issue 2

by Youngstrom, Eric Arden

My suggestion would be to change it to "*organizing* lists of names, credentials and emails of potential peer reviewers for submissions" -- I agree that the editors are the main way of finding reviewers, but organizing the past reviewers and new ones into a database helps a huge amount. Having a way of catching, organizing, and querying the database will make things work more efficiently, especially as the journals scale up. All the best, Eric <<<this message may have been dictated with Dragon voice recognition. Please excuse any words that do not make sense in context!>>> Eric Youngstrom, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry Acting Director, Center for Excellence in Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill eay(a)unc.edu President (2019), Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology President-Elect (2019-20), Society for Quantitative and Qualitative Methods Co-Founder, Helping Give Away Psychological Science (hgaps.org) Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Korea University -----Original Message----- From: WikiJournal-en [mailto:wikijournal-en-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of wikijournal-en-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 8:00 AM To: wikijournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: WikiJournal-en Digest, Vol 29, Issue 2 Send WikiJournal-en mailing list submissions to wikijournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikijournal-en or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikijournal-en-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikijournal-en-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WikiJournal-en digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: technical editor hire (Jackie) 2. Re: technical editor hire (Mark Worthen) 3. Re: technical editor hire (Thomas Shafee) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:01:22 -0500 From: Jackie <jackie.koerner(a)gmail.com> To: WikiJournal User Group participants and followers <wikijournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiJournal-en] technical editor hire Message-ID: <86E57A49-20C4-473E-B9F4-1A0478AC3E55(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi All, In looking at the list of tasks, I found one that seems to be an outlier: Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of potential peer reviewers for submissions If the technical editor takes care of this, then what is it the rest of the board will do? I personally don’t think this task fits here and should lie with the coordinating editors, as this might require area expertise. Best, Jackie -- Jackie Koerner, Ph.D. jackiekoerner.com >> On Oct 10, 2019, at 10:37 PM, Thomas Shafee <thomas.shafee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of > potential peer reviewers for submissions -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikijournal-en/attachments/20191014/f…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:07:47 -0600 From: Mark Worthen <mdw(a)drworthen.net> To: WikiJournal User Group participants and followers <wikijournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiJournal-en] technical editor hire Message-ID: <58259156-A24B-48D0-955D-664DFD726365(a)drworthen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Good point Jackie. - Mark > On Oct 14, 2019, at 10:01, Jackie <jackie.koerner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > In looking at the list of tasks, I found one that seems to be an outlier: > Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of > potential peer reviewers for submissions If the technical editor takes care of this, then what is it the rest of the board will do? > > I personally don’t think this task fits here and should lie with the coordinating editors, as this might require area expertise. > > Best, > > Jackie > -- > Jackie Koerner, Ph.D. > jackiekoerner.com > >>> On Oct 10, 2019, at 10:37 PM, Thomas Shafee <thomas.shafee(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of >> potential peer reviewers for submissions > _______________________________________________ > WikiJournal-en mailing list > WikiJournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikijournal-en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikijournal-en/attachments/20191014/f…> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:22:44 +1100 From: Thomas Shafee <thomas.shafee(a)gmail.com> To: WikiJournal User Group participants and followers <wikijournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiJournal-en] technical editor hire Message-ID: <CAFikvs01Z6jqvFywMy32HcCfgQoyH1p8KjkM4iTkhmp3OeJWrw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Yes, I agree. Identifying potential reviewers is probably beyond-scope for a technical editor. I reckon we remove that task line. On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:04, Mark Worthen <mdw(a)drworthen.net> wrote: > Good point Jackie. > > - Mark > > On Oct 14, 2019, at 10:01, Jackie <jackie.koerner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > In looking at the list of tasks, I found one that seems to be an outlier: > > - Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of > potential peer reviewers for submissions > > If the technical editor takes care of this, then what is it the rest > of the board will do? > > I personally don’t think this task fits here and should lie with the > coordinating editors, as this might require area expertise. > > Best, > > Jackie > -- > Jackie Koerner, Ph.D. > jackiekoerner.com > > On Oct 10, 2019, at 10:37 PM, Thomas Shafee <thomas.shafee(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of > potential peer reviewers for submissions > > _______________________________________________ > WikiJournal-en mailing list > WikiJournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikijournal-en > > _______________________________________________ > WikiJournal-en mailing list > WikiJournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikijournal-en > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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4 years, 6 months

technical editor hire

by Thomas Shafee

Hi Mikael, Now that we have $1000 to hire a technical editor for casual hours, do you want to advertise the position internally first based on the task list at WikiJournal_User_Group#Technical_editor <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group#Technical_editor>. (Contacts: WikiJMed(a)googlegroups.com; WikiJSci(a)googlegroups.com; WikiJHum(a)googlegroups.com; WikiJournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org) Tasks of the technical editor would include those that are repetitive for each journal submission, including: - Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of potential peer reviewers for submissions - Copyediting, including image formatting and checking reference formatting as well as attributions to creators for images. - Preparing and uploading the pdf version of articles upon acceptance - Generating DOI codes (Digital Object Identifiers) for accepted articles If having deeper technical experience, the technical editor could help out in tasks such as: - Creating a for for adding metadata items to articles at WikiData (Example page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44275619>) - Creating a bot for keeping the *Article info* template <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Template:Article_info> synchronised between main page and subpage and add accepted articles to the relevant issue page. - Be able to help out in developing items for the technical wishlist of WikiJournal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal/Technical_wishlist> The hiring process will consist of first looking among current board members and associate editors for an appropriate candidate. If this doesn't lead to choosing a technical editor, then it will be advertised externally. Any candidate will be interviewed ´, wherein all WikiJournal participants may could suggest questions. 2-3 people will volunteer to screen applicants, with summaries sent to all editorial boards. The technical editor will then be hired based on consensus among board members. That person will begin editing with a limited budget, and the result will be evaluated to make a decision of whether to proceed in the same manner. If nobody comes forward, then we can work out what site jobs to advertise on. Thomas

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