Great points. Some of them 've already got some existing infrastructure
that could be adapted.
I think that until each of WikiJSci and WikiJHum publishes a few articles,
having more specialised articles might split the potential publications
currently (e.g. Social sciences is currently covered under WikiJHum).
Definitely reaching out to prospective editorial board members / associate
editors via relevant WikiProjects would be good (indeed, that's how I found
many of the current board members so far in the two new journals)
I've updated the way the the closed board groups work. It should now be
possible to send a message to the other boards even if you're not a part of
it (e.g. Diptanshu emails WJHboard@... then anyone on that board who
'replies all' will reply to the board and to Diptanshu). That way multiple
boards can be part of a discussion, or even someone outside of any board
can be brought in for one specific board discussion thread.
My thoughts are that advisers could be places on editorial boards, but
marked as advisers (like Mikael and I are on the WikiJHum board) and are
thre for strategy and discussion, rather than making decisions on
publications and reviews.
The three fully public mailing lists could be used as parallel groups to
reach enthusiasts:
- wijoumed(a)googlegroups.com
- WikiJSci(a)googlegroups.com
- WikiJHum(a)googlegroups.com
Indeed the broadest WikiJournal-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org could be emulated by
just emailing those three public lists simultaneously.
All the best,
Thomas
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 at 01:52 Diptanshu Das <das.diptanshu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In addition to the above, let me add that the
groups/lists which
incorporate the involvement of enthusiasts in addition to the board
members, should possibly be Wikimedia mailing lists
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo> and the discussions would
be publicly visible as on the WikiJournal mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikijournal-en/>.
Furthermore, Thomas has already reached out to a significant number of
people while trying to form the board for WJS and WJH. He can possibly
provide us with a common template message to reach out to prospective
Wikiprojects and their participants to provide them with an impetus to form
WikiJournals in their respective fields. A similar exercise could also be
carried out beyond the Wiki-space wherein academic groups are reached out
to.
Regards
Diptanshu
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On 9 December 2017 at 18:22, Michaël Laurent <michael.laurent(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Diptanshu,
I fully agree on all 3 points.
BW Michaël
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Diptanshu Das <das.diptanshu(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi
I was wondering how to popularise WikiJournals and to expand their
reach. One way would be to identify probable niches and the respective
WikiProject. For example, WikiJournal of Social Sciences could be formed
and for that the community at WikiProject Sociology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology> could
be invited by leaving a note on their talk page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sociology>.
As a member of the WikiJournal Council, I could do that. Thereafter, we
could evaluate the level of enthusiasm and can proceed accordingly. Thomas
has done an excellent job by reorganising WikiJournal of Science and by
starting the WikiJournal of Humanities. Possibly it is time to reach out to
other prospective branches.
The editorial board members of WikiJournal of Mediccine have been
communicating and discussing amongst themselves through a closed Google
group. Similar board specific groups have evolved for WJS and WJH. But this
arrangement limits the scope of involvement of anybody who is not a part of
the editorial board of the respective WikiJournal. I think that a parallel
open group could be formed for each of the existing WikiJournals with all
the editorial board members as participants, but with the open scope of any
other enthusiast joining (as it happens in Wikipedia communities).
I was also eager to draw the involvement of eminent contributors who
could otherwise act as advisers for the journals. I would seek your
involvement in the discussion I have started at
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_of_Science#Editorial_board…
Thomas, if this emails is not reaching the members of WJS and WJH, I
would be glad if you could initiate the discussion in the respective boards.
Regards
Diptanshu
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