Hi Fellow Wiki Journal Editors,
I am writing to you about the upcoming release of Wikipedia @ 20: Stories
of an Incomplete Revolution <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/wikipedia-20>.
I edited this volume along with Joseph Reagle. The book contains reflective
essays about Wikipedia’s first 20 years from a wide range of authors. MIT
Press is delighted to offer this book under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
We would love you to help spread the word about the book within your
networks – be these academic, media, or personal. You can do this in
several ways:
Tweet now, around the book release on October 20th, and again in January
around Wikipedia’s 20th anniversary
Talk to your department or organization about the possibility of a virtual
event or lecture to mark the book’s publication
Tell any journalists you know about the book, and that they are welcome to
a review copy If you have any questions about this or ideas, please let me
know. We’re getting a solid head start but that will be vital for getting
the word out about the book! Thank you!
I do hope I did not offend anyone with sharing this book via the
WikiJournal list. I know many of you study Wikipedia alongside your
academic work and wanted to share this with you all.
Best,
Jackie
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Jackie Koerner, Ph.D.
jackiekoerner.com
Dear fellow editorial team members,
Gwinyai and I are making a video to explain a few features of WikiJMed. The
video will probably include a collage of COLOR photos from the editorial
board. I will not include photographs that are not close to standard i.e.
that have people's faces and eyes covered or are cropped at a large angle
etc. (Specifically I mean Jason Dixon and Amelia Buttress, who seem to have
missed personal emails I wrote noting the issue, and it may have gone into
their spam bins.o) This choice is not meant to make anyone feel disincluded
but to give the collage a uniform look. If your photo used for the
editorial board does not meet these requirements but you want your
photograph in the montage please send it to me today or I will just not
include it . And also please consider changing your photo on the wikipage.
It really detracts from us looking professional to have such non-standard
photographs. I know as scholars you are not concerned with such trivial
issues, but if we want to raise the prestige of the journal, it couldn't
hurt.
Dr. Candace Makeda Moore, MD