and it is (1) not under an open license but
under a CC BY SA NC license.
States there are 11 published articles
which is not true in the sentence of publishing
Looks like a different project than one publishing academic journal
articles.
James
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Mikael Häggström <
editor.in.chief(a)wikijmed.org> wrote:
Hi all WikiJournal (at Wikiversity) participants!
So, there's been a major discussion about whether we should merge our
project with the one located at
www.wikijournal.org, maintained by Philip
<https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fokebox&action=edit&redlink=1>
:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_
Group#Developing_WikiJournal_project_at_wikijournal.org
I've discussed this in the board of WikiJournal of Medicine
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Editors>, and
unfortunately it seems the aims of our project and that of Philip are too different.
Mainly, he does not intend to implement peer review as a prerequisite for
article publication. With merely editorial review, the project would
essentially add nothing to the world, since there are already Wikipedia
articles with protection <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Protection>,
which basically works the same way. Also, as seem at his grant proposal
to Wikimedia Foundation,
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Philip/WikiJournal.org/WikiJournal>
he has a vision of an "incorporated company", with huge monetary demands as
compared to for example the Wiki.J.Med budget
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Financials>.
Besides, as Thomas has pointed out:
"Although the domain
wikijournal.org would be useful, there are plenty of
other viable options. Being
journal.wikimedia.org would be completely
fine. So would
wikipublish.org, or even
wikijournal*s*.org. Searching
"wikijournal" on google finds us before
wikijournal.org, and I suspect
that that will continue given googles algorithms. The WMF has a legal
department better able to answer trademark issues. If we wanted to be more
sure of our future position, we could ask the WMF to look into trademarking
relevant terms etc."
So, unless you disagree, I will shortly decline a merger. Philip would
still be welcome to join our project, with our mission
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group>, "to publish
scholarly works with no cost for the authors, apply quality checks on
submissions by expert peer review, and make accepted works available on the
Internet free of charge, in perpetuity." (Still, feel free to suggest
changes in this wording.)
Best regards,
Mikael
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