Dear board members
Suddenly everybody seems concerned about constructive work. Yet, my
appeal to get going into constructive work 10 days back did not bear a
single response or input. It is this lack of constructive inputs that
got me constructive. Lets get back to work. Seeking constructive
inputs that can lead to something worthwhile.
You can find a number of issues below that require your involvement.
Let me know what you wish to get involved in. I am there waiting to
join along.
Regards
Diptanshu
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 15:42, Dr. Diptanshu Das
<das.diptanshu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear friends
I would like to let you know that the property proposal for
Altmetric ID [4] has been approved (P5530 [5]). The next step would
be to find people who can develop a gadget [6] to pull the dynamic
data from Altmetric servers. On my personal capacity I will try to
find the right people who can get it done. I would be glad to get
any helpful inputs from anybody in this regard.
Now, talking about working together, I know that somehow we had
entered into some misunderstandings which possibly creates a set
back. But I would like to point that all of us here are volunteers
working toward a cause which is rather selfless. So, I would
encourage you all to participate whole heartedly and to take
WikiJournals ahead as a whole. We need to understand that we need to
rise beyond our personal reservations and apprehension and strive to
contribute to cumulative and collaborative development. While
working at WJM, while communicating and collaborating with its
members I have always felt at home and among peers who are motivated
and caring. I believe that the same can be extended to the other
groups as well. Rest assured that victimization is out question and
that you have no reason to get anxious. Rest assured that if
something seems broken, it can be fixed, and that you have peers who
are waiting to take the plunge in an attempt to help you out.
I think that all of us, from each of the individual projects (WJM,
WJS and WJH) need to come together as a single team and lay down
concrete plans about the subsequent course of action, and then act
upon it.
While attending Wikimania I interacted with a number of people and
while I found overall enthusiasm, I also found that people were
hardly aware of its existence. Personally, despite being a medical
editor for 10 years, and despite WikiJournal of Medicine being in
place since 2014, it was not before 2-3 years had elapsed after its
inception that I came to know about its existence. With WikiJournal
of Science and Humanities coming up, we need to reach out to people
and make them aware of their existence. About a month back I had put
a proposal to the mailing list and Thomas had augmented it with yet
another. Neither of the proposals bore any significant response from
the board members of the three journals. I am forwarding the thread
along as I believe that it needs to be taken ahead.
We needs to understand that what we are working upon is still in its
infancy and there is a lot to be done. We need to work together. I
need a show of hands about who are willing to jump in.
Regards
Diptanshu
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Forwarded conversation
Subject: REACHING OUT WITH THE MESSAGE OF WIKIJOURNALS
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From: DR. DIPTANSHU DAS <das.diptanshu(a)gmail.com>
Date: 1 July 2018 at 17:57
To: wjmboard <wjmboard(a)googlegroups.com>om>, WJS board
<WJSboard(a)googlegroups.com>om>, WJH board <WJHboard(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi
With the arrival of WJS and WJS, the scope of WikiJournals has
become extended to a wide audience. I think that we need to figure
out ways to reach out to people and make them aware of the existence
of such a platform.
I would suggest forming a template message and to reach it out to
targettable audience.
The message should contain:
* What WikiJournals are all about.
* Summary of the google doc [7] for WMF blog interview.
* The link to the WMF blog post, in case it has already been posted
by that point of time.
* How the users could group together, collaborate, and form new
journals in case they can procure a motivated team.
* Any other points.
As a first step we can post the message on the talk pages of
participants of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access