Dear all, at the suggestion of Gwinyai I would like to discuss whether or not we would include in our Author guidelines for future submission the advice and/or requirement to authors to add a *Plain language summary*. This has already been included in https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Images_of_Aerococcu… ; but many other recent articles don't have this. I think in the spirit of Wikipedia and to make any topic accessible to the widest possible audience I would welcome these. Several big journals already use these e.g. Cochrane, JAMA, Ann Intern Med etc. have summaries for patients. Only sometimes they are written by the authors themselves and sometimes by the Editors/Journal. I *support* adding Plain language summaries to the Author Instructions. PS: I also added a topic for this discussion online: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Publishing#Pla… with kindest regards, Michaël -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wjmboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wjmboard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to wjmboard(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjmboard/CAJikOOwYWOrmeLqaS%3DrU0pVVvF%3D… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjmboard/CAJikOOwYWOrmeLqaS%3DrU0pVVvF%3D47nWrjLspF2jyWphgzDOmqA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

*Support *as an option for authors (e.g. if they have used plain language in their abstract, there is no need to duplicate). We can think about what to do with that summary if the content is integrated into Wikipedia. For topics like Cerebellum, we could integrate the summary in to SimpEng Wikipedia (e.g. simple.wikipedia.org/wik i/Cerebellum), but for niche topics like PfEMP1 it might be less suitable. Thomas On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 at 00:44 Lisa Kip &lt;lisakip(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Also in support. > > Lisa > > Lisa Kipersztok, MD, MPH > > lisakip(a)gmail.com > > Resident Physician > > Family Medicine Residency Program > > Oregon Health and Sciences University > > > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Michaël Laurent < > michael.laurent(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> at the suggestion of Gwinyai I would like to discuss whether or not >> we would include in our Author guidelines for future submission the advice >> and/or requirement to authors to add a *Plain language summary*. >> >> This has already been included in https://en.wikiversity.org/wik >> i/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Images_of_Aerococcus_urinae ; but many >> other recent articles don't have this. >> >> I think in the spirit of Wikipedia and to make any topic accessible >> to the widest possible audience I would welcome these. Several big journals >> already use these e.g. Cochrane, JAMA, Ann Intern Med etc. have summaries >> for patients. Only sometimes they are written by the authors themselves and >> sometimes by the Editors/Journal. >> >> I *support* adding Plain language summaries to the Author >> Instructions. >> >> PS: I also added a topic for this discussion online: >> https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_of_Medicine >> /Publishing#Plain_language_summaries >> >> with kindest regards, >> Michaël >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "wjmboard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email to wjmboard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to wjmboard(a)googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjmboard/CAJikOOwYWOrmeLqa >> S%3DrU0pVVvF%3D47nWrjLspF2jyWphgzDOmqA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjmboard/CAJikOOwYWOrmeLqaS%3DrU0pVVvF%3D47nWrjLspF2jyWphgzDOmqA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "wjmboard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to wjmboard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to wjmboard(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjmboard/CAGQM0UX47wF1CrNB > QEEw%3DjCoJqMiTSyBiNETTxMJWUVD5rZijg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wjmboard/CAGQM0UX47wF1CrNBQEEw%3DjCoJqMiTSyBiNETTxMJWUVD5rZijg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . -- Thomas Shafee *La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science* & *Hexima Ltd* | Postdoctoral research fellow Profiles at ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Shafee> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/108/346/46a> | Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evolution_and_evolvability> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wjmboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wjmboard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to wjmboard(a)googlegroups.com.

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