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Next steps: 'technical requirements' v2: updated and prioritised list

Apologies that I've gotten a bit behind on this discussion, but I thought I should add a note to say that I think a sensible next step would be putting together a v2 of the 'technical requirements' with a bit more detail on each one (but still aiming to be brief) as well as some sort of priority (importance and technical feasibility). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 03:52, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

I think you mean "with a bit more"...I believe it's worth pointing out here so people don't think we mean a list of bots to be used on the project. SelfieCity (talk) 00:19, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! corrected. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 05:50, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

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I've now made a page WikiJournal/Technical wishlist to summarise and prioritise the features being discussed here (and others). Eventually phabricator tasks can be linked to for those that are important+implementable. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 07:55, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

I've also asked over at mediawiki (Topic:V4taqczdm6vwe6yx) for any feedback on how difficult the proposed items might be to implement. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 04:39, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

How many developers do you plan on hiring ? Cause that is a LONG list. Like at least 5 times as much work as wikisource needs (and hasn't received in over 15 years). —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:55, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

@TheDJ: Thanks - that's very useful to know. Initially, I expect we will probably aim to put together whatever sized dev team is necessary to do 5-10 of the highest priority items that aren't prohibitively difficult. In part, getting a better handle on the relative difficulties of the different items will help a lot in planning. Most of the items are relatively independent, so don't have too many contingencies on one another. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 00:38, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

I haven't contributed to the WikiJournal project, but have some thoughts on the technical to-do list, with a focus on getting the project up-and-running. If it matters:

• cross-wiki transclusion from Wikipedia - see mw:Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding - unlikely to be enabled. Instead, I suggest configuring importing to allow easier imports to-and-from Wikipedia (setting wikipedia as a source for wikijournal, and vice versa)
• Figures using [[file:...]] syntax automatically numbered and attributed, Namespace unreviewed articles e.g. Draft: or Preprint: - can be implemented without developer contributions using the fig template and by configuring user rights to only allow specific user groups to create pages in the main namespace (like enwiki does)
• Pages only viewable to some users to discuss potential peer reviewers to contact - see phab:T227595#5347067 - restricting who can read pages is not well implemented, and is likely to require significant work to set up
• Categorise users as author/reviewer/editor for a particular page, Addition of published articles to Wikidata, Auto-update journal's homepage when an article is accepted - not software that requires development, can be done with user scripts (if desired)

Anyway, if I can help create any user scripts I'd be glad to pitch in - thanks for everything the WikiJournal project is doing! Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:15, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

This technical wishlist needs to acknowledge the higher priority of all the technical requirements that are considered necessary or strongly recommended by Plan S. Additionally, many other features are missing compared to the usual basics of open access journals; you can find more at https://openjournalsystems.com/ojs-3-user-guide/ojs-features/ , for instance. For the proposal to be viable, you also need a comparison to the other dozens of publishing platform existing out there, which were helpfully surveyed by the recent https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/ . Then, after you have completed the list of requirements (which I expect will grow at least tenfold compared to what you currently have), someone will need to estimate the costs of the implementation. Good luck, Nemo 11:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I totally agree that there are lots of additional features that would be valuable, though there are likely multiple different development levels that are viable. The currently systems implemented in the WikiJournal User Group, PLOS topic pages are functional but clearly suboptimal (I understand that Gene Wiki reviews and RNA Biology partner pages are just written in word and copied over). You can see an earlier estimate of Plan_S compliance here (though that these were before the May revision, so a few now differ a little). We totally welcome input on various aspects if you have ideas for key features through. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 04:44, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

I have just provided a list of key features. It doesn't matter what's my opinion, it's about what the expected audience of the project needs. Nemo 06:58, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

I've just had a quick call with Ilana Fried and Moriel Schottlender from the WMF product and engineering teams. My take home is that many of the highest-priority items are relatively feasible (some via already-approved extensions, some via lightweight gadgets and tools). A default CC-BY license would have to be run past WMF legal. A few items will need larger extensions (e.g. interacting with any external API), and a couple may need outside tools to plug in (e.g. reviewers being able to reveal identities to select users, or anything that requires actions after specific delays). The main item that poses a genuine technical challenge is parsing from language to language, however import/export is relatively achievable if relatively consistent article structure and if last 5% of import can be manually tweaked afterwards. This is also a feature that is being worked on for other projects. Annotating the history (other than in the edit summary) is also very difficult. The easier items my be appropriate for hackathons or the mentoring program if sufficient information, use-case and examples are given, and in general. The next steps are to put together more detailed and specific information on the top items (probably in phabricator). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 13:21, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

The WMF is not very good at budgeting the costs of development for new sister projects, see for instance the spectacular debacle of the mw:Wikivoyage migration which probably ended up costing a few millions although the initial budget was something like 100 k$.

I would recommend to discuss a list of necessary features with a working group of people with experience of running fully open access journals and developing an open access publishing platform (there are suggestions at https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/ ), and to ask an estimate of costs from experienced MediaWiki consultants like WikiWorks and HalloWelt to have at least an order of magnitude. Nemo 17:27, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: How on Earth would migrating an existing wiki community cost USD$3M+??? $100k over the course of five months sounds reasonable--I could imagine $250k over eight months or even $500k if there were special concerns for map functionality. I cannot fathom millions of dollars. Where are you getting this estimate? What kind of factors made this so wildly expensive? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:40, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Simple, if a few engineers have to work on configuration and extension development the costs quickly add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per month, and given such a thing doesn't happen overnight you need to multiply it by a few months. Alternatively you can under-budget the job and end up doing it five times instead of one, as happened with the book tool replacement. Nemo 17:52, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: Again, do you have a source for this other than your own personal accounting? Your explanation seems plausible but I don't have any documentation for this, do you? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:56, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

The documentation is in Phabricator and in the mw:Category:Wikimedia engineering reports, where you can see the official version of the facts (main development from October 2012 to January 2013 with a team of at least 5 persons, closed by the announcement of GeoData. In reality, however, the development of the Wikivoyage-specific extensions continued for months (or years) outside of officially budgeted projects.

Wikimedia Foundation has now canceled all the reporting about its activities, in order to make it inscrutable for community members (see Wikimedia Foundation transparency gap), and I doubt they have any serious internal replacement either, which explains why it's simply impossible for them to estimate the cost of such projects. (There is no baseline, nor a way to measure it, and they have no experience doing it.) Don't expect any official "accounting" to exist for the costs of projects.

Intuitively, if you look at the list of features above you can find 30 requested features. Forget for a moment that they would probably need to be at least three times as many, if you look at the resources I linked above which map the features needed for a basic publishing platform. Be charitable and assume the WMF employees mentioned above are right in their assessment that each of those features is rather small, say comparable to a Community Wishlist Survey item. According to Community Tech/Status report - 2018, about ten such items can be solved per year by a team of 5 (the team is currently 7 persons strong, but they probably didn't work 100 % of the year on this). The current annual plan implies an average cost per headcount of about 160 k$ (take for instance 9.2 M$ of "platform" work and divide by 59.38 FTE, or divide the expected increase in expenses of some 18.6 M$ by the corresponding increase of 109 FTE). So a baseline scenario for the wishlist provided above and the optimistic assessment of two WMF employees would be 160 k$ * 5 * 3 = 2.4 M$.

More conservatively, multiply the number of features by three, increase the average difficulty by at least 50 % because it's a new kind of job for MediaWiki, take the cost of an entire team like Community Tech as baseline, add 20 % of overhead for the team being so large, and you end up with 160 k$ * 7 * 9 * 1.2 * 1.5 = 18 M$. I didn't expect it but this number is quite similar to what PLOS spent, which confirms it may be realistic. However, a more rigorous costing process is needed, hence my suggestion above. Nemo 18:28, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: Thank you for this very thorough response to me as well as the sober-minded feedback that this proposal needs. Very helpful as always. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:42, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Phabricator

A phabricator project is now set up at this link to accompany (and likely eventually replace) the wishlist table. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 01:50, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Sociology and all that ....

We really need bottom-up approaches to the creation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge (*not* just by "academics") ....Decisions are made by corporate publisher managers who have no contact with authors or readers.... the "publisher-academic complex values reputation rather than knowledge) and neocolonialist. It's anglophone and discriminates against the Global South.

Petermr, a few questions:-

1. Do you have any academic credentials in history/sociology? (Major/Honors/Minor .....)

   Have you pursued any form/kind of scholarship (not activism) in the field of postcolonial/subaltern studies/similar domains?
   

2. Can you provide a few high-quality-sources that elucidate upon how precisely the potential creation of new journals (primarily in English) with a radically transparent but traditional peer-review-model subject to academics trained in the western pedagogy, can fight anglophone dominance (and neocolonialism) in academia whilst simultaneously ushering in the concept of bottom-up approaches and Southern theory?
   

   As someone who personally knows at-least 4 of the folks mentioned over here and follows the developments in the postcolonial genre quite keenly, I am highly interested in knowing the answer to the above question, notwithstanding my own objections to certain radical stuff of the relatively newish frameworks.

3. Can you provide a few high-quality-sources (or a single review paper) that provides near-conclusive proof (with high statistical rigor) and elucidates upon the overall prioritization of reputation over knowledge, in the varied forms of publishing, that exists currently? I admit my ignorance (sans random anecdotal observations) in the area but read this a couple of months back, which despite some difference in context, did not paint a black and white picture. Also, did you get the word publisher-academic-complex from a WMF PPT of about a few years back? The word seems to have zero GHits otherwise :-(
4. Also, why do you expect that a random Tom, Dick and Harry who has never been to a relevant scholarly institution shall stand a chance to write any sane and novel stuff about advanced micro-fluid dynamics or affine spaces or directed evolution?

   The only sparse contribution from non-academics is seen by certain (IMO, prodigial) folks in niche areas of social-sciences; examples include Manoranjan Byapari et al. Do you allude to more mainstreaming of such folks and discovering them, by your statement?

   This de-evaluation of academic degrees seem to be the newest fascination of certain postcolonial scholar-activists -- anybody and everybody is a scholar esp. when you cross-couple the postmodern concept of multiple truths. I have not much fascination for such extra-vagancies in a post-truth world and my reply roughly aligns with this thread by a reputed faculty-historian. Where do you stand?

5. Why do you feel that a reader shall be consulted while publishing scholarly works? Anybody who is currently working in the fields of Hindutva or Indian History will tell you that not pandering to a right-nationalist-Muslim-bashing-version-of-history (which's the majority's definition of post-colonial/post-Islamic scholarship) can get you lynched in public.

   Under such polarized circumstances, if some journal/book editor decides to pick a random reader from the national populace and inquire about whether he will like to read works by Thapar, a highly acclaimed historian or Rajaram, an engineer-turned-nutjob-turned-fraud, the former won't stand a chance. So, how to proceed -- junk Thapar, since she does not sell among the readers? After-all, readers shall control the production and dissemination of knowledge, in some manner, in your proposed utopia. Comments, please.

6. Overall, can you kindly comment on any two of these three papers/articles:- [ 1 / 2 / 3 ] in light of the quoted statement?
   OR
7. can you kindly comment on the relevant chapters/portions of this book and this article in light of the quoted statement? Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 19:53, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Separation of real name and username

This has probably been covered elsewhere so please point me in the right direction if you know where I should look. What if I want to submit a wikipaper with my real name, but I don't want me username to be associated with it? Pelirojopajaro (talk) 14:33, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

That's probably covered by three items in Wikimedia & Wikipedia's guidelines:

1. WP:VALIDALT - A person editing an article that is highly controversial within their family, social or professional circle, and whose Wikipedia identity is known within that circle, or traceable to their real-world identity, may wish to use an alternative account to avoid real-world consequences from their editing or other Wikipedia actions in that area and ...should not be used in ways outlined in the inappropriate uses section of this page, and if it is, the account may be publicly linked to your main account for sanctions
2. Help:Unified login - Users can still have differently named accounts on two sites
3. WP:ALTACCN - consider notifying a checkuser or members of the arbitration committee if they believe editing will attract scrutiny

However, I'm not an expert in their interpretation. That being said, I think the above guidelines likely support limited use of a separate single-purpose, real-name account distinct from an existing pseudonymous account to avoid privacy or outing concerns so long as the user diligently refrains from anything listed at w:WP:ILLEGIT. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 02:22, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Funding

How much is the anticipated funding for WJ if it exists as a sister project? Is there any break-down of budgetary requirements? Hazy memory that I've seen a figure of $1 million for just one aspect of it but that sounds ludicrous. - Sitush (talk) 23:05, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about this comment here? It seems to have been somewhat over-interpreted by subsequent discussions. No specific amount of money has been requested currently (aside from the previous 5 years of spending here). The crux of the application other than the actual web hosting space is the technical features wishlist, where items are being ordered by priority and by feasibility (still gathering input on how much work different parts would be). The amount of money asked for would depend on, with multiple different price-points being viable depending on which sets of items included. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 12:29, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Sitush, for comparison, PLOS canceled development of Aperta, its planned publishing platform, and wrote off 11.1 M$ it had spent on the project. The European Commission has a tender for an open research platform with a base price of 73 M€. These are the amounts we're usually talking about in this sector. Nemo 14:49, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

The main discussion about technical requirements is at #Next steps: 'technical requirements' v2: updated and prioritised list by the way. Nemo 17:30, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Proposal from 2011 on Wikimedia Strategic Planning

I do not see this posted anywhere else here but there was a similar proposal to this, much less developed, in 2011. This might have been missed because it was on the weird "Wikimedia Strategic Planning" website and not findable through any conventional search.

• strategy:Proposal:Journal (A peer-review journal to allow/encourage academics to write Wikipedia articles)

There are some differences in the proposal here as compared to WikiJournal. However, I think this prior proposal demonstrates a long history of discussion for the ideas in this proposal Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:01, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes, it's interesting how often the idea has come up at least back to 2008. There has also been a pair of related pages over at Wikipedia w:WP:J2W and w:WP:W2J since 2012 (which I just noticed weren't on the list of 'Former proposals with similar scope', so have added to the list). Previous on-wiki solutions have never quite hit critical mass. I think there has been a need for a while, but there's been high initial activation energy barriers that have now been surmounted by organisation (editorial guidelines, publication ethics, article processing etc) and infrastructure (even organising crossref, issn, doaj, cope etc applications). I think this project has the momentum needed to spark the content-user-reputation wiki cycle. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 12:41, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Handling government censorship

While other independent/major-publishing houses' journals typically will not be censored, WikiJournal will inherit all the consequences for being associated with Wikipedia and WMF, which unfortunately includes complete blocks from accessing it in certain countries (e.g. China, Iran, Turkey). Take China as an example, English Wikipedia has been blocked by the Chinese government since April.[1] Even other WMF projects have been temporarily blocked or censored in May: Meta[2] and Commons.[3]

While the current journal is hosted by Wikiversity and currently not blocked by the Chinese government,[4] such blocks are usually discreet and sudden. When blocks are in place, they will disproportionately affect various WikiJournal participants and users (authors, editorial board members, reviewers and readers). WikiJournal of Humanities is more susceptible to this than Science and Medicine due to its scope, but it has been shown in the past that governments will censor access to articles that they deem as taboo.[5] We need to create a long-term plan to address this issue and possible bias when they are excluded. How can we tackle these challenges? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:49, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Very good point. Something that we might need to reach out and consult others on advice on how (and how not) to handle it. I'd be interested in the reactions from other non-wp wiki communities as well as academic journals that have been censored. My initial thoughts are:

1. We would obviously refuse censorship requests, (I know that Cambridge University Press got into a very compromised position with China Quarterly [6][7])
2. If they choose to extended block the whole site (since it'd be https) then we could possibly mass-mirror works by depositing into OA repositories as well as publicise the block.

The near-random short blocks of the non-wp sister projects means that it may be worth setting up some automated daily en.greatfire.org checks. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 11:12, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

I would suggest that we at the least have a means of tracking this. It will also be important not to end up on any of the lists of shady journals that are out there. It seems China in particular is going down hard on journals, see here, but this is also a reason for our independance. We can make the case that we are a peer reviewed outlet that should be viewed separately for this issue. After all many of the bans on WP and WMF are political more than anything else. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 02:17, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

I just want to raised an issue related to the above and specific to China. The major publishers - certainly Elsevier and Wiley - have offices in China and I have experienced censorship with a journal - International Journal of Nursing Sciences - which is managed through the Beijing office of Elsevier. A manuscript I co-authored with Taiwanese colleagues was held up and we were requested not to use 'Taiwan' in the byline for my colleagues (I think 'China' was requested or perhaps 'ROC') and we were asked not to refer to participants in the study as 'Taiwanese' presumably on the grounds that they were considered to be 'Chinese'. My colleagues withdrew the manuscript. Therefore, if a Wiki Journal publishes articles from Taiwan or mentioning 'Taiwanese' then it may be blocked. Rwatson1955 (talk) 11:27, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

On the flip side, recently I have learned that US-imposed sanctions on some countries create problems for submissions by the authors who reside in these countries.[8][9] Since WMF is located in the US, it will have to comply with sanctions imposed by the US government even though many of us do not reside in the US. We have to be mindful of the conditions required after accepting a manuscript (Elsevier has a good summary written in lay language[10]). OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 13:59, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Being a publisher

I feel like some people grossly underestimate what it would mean to turn WMF into a publisher. The entire castle of the Wikimedia projects rests on WMF being a mere hosting provider. Let's assume WMF legal finds some legal loophole to allow WMF to run journals without making our entire legal structure collapse, are you sure you're fine with the consequences? Read https://retractionwatch.com/ a bit. After w:en:WP:FRAM, how would you feel about the WMF ED being responsible to handle author bans and the like when, inevitably, some article will become controversial? Nemo 07:02, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

I think it is definitely important for the WMF to remain a hosting platform, not a publisher, for their legal structure to work. For the three WikiJournal_of_XYZ journals, the publisher is the WikiJournal User Group (802511-9275). Similarly it is the WikiJournal User Group that has a specific set of publication ethics that participants agree to. If other journals started to use the platform, they'd either have established publishers (e.g. PLOS), or set up new publishing groups. Retractionwatch is a great resource (though I do wish that the data was on wikidata) and long with COPE's flowcharts and case studies, provides very useful information on how to handle publishing issues. In addition to the current guidelines in place for handling retractions within the WikiJournal User Group ethics statement, it will definitely be useful to explore more detailed ways of handling crossmark-registered versioning for both article updates and corrections (example). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 05:04, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

If the idea is to keep a distinction between "WikiJournal the hosting service" (run by Wikimedia Foundation) and "WikiJournal the publisher", you will need a lot of effort to uphold it. At a minimum, you'd need to show that the hosting service is used by other publishers as well. Is there anyone else? Nemo 14:43, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Cover letter submitted

Copied from this page

The proposal cover letter has now been submitted to the WMF board of trustees along with the five letters of support (link). The pageviews and discussion looks like it has plateaued, with two spikes corresponding to dissemination events listed here. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 02:03, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Is there a copy of the letter which I can read without enabling proprietary JavaScript? If the Wikimedia Commons formats do not suit the content, you can use archive.org or zenodo.org to host a copy. Thank you, Nemo 14:44, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Unfortunately the letters of support include logos, so I don't think it can be released under a creative commons license. Would a dropbox, onedrive or gdrive share link work for you? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 08:37, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

@Evolution and evolvability: Copyright is not the same as trademark. You can have a freely-licensed piece of work that includes the Golden Arches or Swoosh. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:07, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

In that case if I was being overly-cautious, I've put it up on commons for now at File:Sister Project application for Wikimedia Journals (combined).pdf. I imagine if there are any issues on their end they'll contact me pretty swiftly. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 02:02, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

The WMF board has confirmed that they have received the application and will be discussing it at their next in person meeting Feb 11th and 12th of 2020. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 08:38, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

@Evolution and evolvability: What is your source for this information? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:07, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

contact@wikijsci.org emailed info-en@wikimedia.org to ask for the cover letter to be sent to the WMF board of trustees (from what I can see the board email is not public knowledge) and one of the board members emailed back stating that the 2020-02-11/12 date was when the next discussion would be held. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 11:03, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikijournal.org

Hello dear Group. I still interested in to provide my domain name wikijournal.org for your project on donation basis. Feel free to contact to infowikijournal.org — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fokebox (talk)

Proposing a new WikiJournal - Guidelines?

Suppose I want to propose a new WikiJournal - WikiJournal of Terrorism. Let us assume that I am eager to pull together a community of bin-Laden like people from all across the globe and they are all eager to promote terror related articles. They agree to form an editorial board of like-minded people who collaborate the process. The journal would be an ISSN-registered, peer reviewed, open access journal in the field of terrorism, hosted on Wikimedia platform, Wikipedia integrated and published free of charge. And of course, the articles would need to pass peer-review before they are published in a citable format. I suppose that Wikimedia Foundation would be fine with it so long as it is run by a community - right? Are you fine with it? I am not. Dear board members of all WikiJournals, please give me a framework that delineates the criteria and guidelines for forming a WikiJournal and what pre-requisites it must meet. Else, who knows, I might form the brand new 'WikiJournal of Terrorism'. Waiting for your inputs. Diptanshu 💬 13:24, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Kindly take note that the current administrative board not approving it is not a good enough logic for me. May be the new journal initially puts up a benign face and people approve of it. Thereafter the bin-laden mentality people steer it at will. Since this community is ok with atrocities (of course maintaining a courteous style of presentation), can the present administrative board do much about this apparently rogue community? Diptanshu 💬 13:46, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

I don't see a very real prospect of anyone using WikiJournal as a means of recruiting terrorists. If you have a more realistic concern, please post it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 13:48, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Justin, terrorism is not my concern. My concern is rougeness in communities and individuals in manners that might not always be self-evident. I am seeking ways to deal with that. Diptanshu 💬 14:23, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

@Mikael Häggström, Evolution and evolvability, and Fransplace:, I am seeking the following:

• Defining the exact roles of the editorial board members and defining how it differs from that of non-members keen on contributing to WikiJournals. This also requires the additional liabilities and responsibilities of board members to be defined.
• Defining community guidelines for WikiJournal participants. It could also go by the name of CoC and the current draft demands implementation (fine tuning can always be done subsequently). If you feel that the community can do without a CoC, perhaps you think that the community can act in any manner it likes. I feel that unacceptable.* Defining what is confidential (and why) and barring that, making everything else open with respect to WikiJournals. It is also pertinent to decide on the anonymity of board members. I believe that my proposal on this is still on your radar (unless the EiCs were bluffing).
• Defining Founding principles, mission, vision, and goals of WikiJournals. It is pertinent to mention that in an earlier communication of mine I had commented that the mission of WikiJournal is 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. ... Mission is a general statement of how you will achieve the vision. Strategies are a series of ways of using the mission to achieve the vision. Goals are statements of what needs to be accomplished to implement the strategy. Objectives are specific actions and timelines for achieving the goal. I had called for further inputs from the boards but not unusually (and of course without discrimination about who is putting in the proposal) the board members apparently chose to sleep over it i.e. archived it as 'Open tasks and discussions'. Also, please refer to Wikimedia Foundation Guiding Principles and Founding principles for that of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Defining the requirements for one to start a brand new WikiJournal and the guidelines for the same, and the criteria those WikiJournals need to fulfil.

I need the above because I am going to start a number of WikiJournals. In the process I would be referring to w:Category:Active WikiProjects and w:List of scientific journals. I feel that a number of solid WikiJournals can come from the communities actively participating as WikiProjects. Thereafter I would also be reaching out to authors and editors outside Wikimedia space (who are possibly clueless about the Wikimedia culture). My current experience tells me that the WikiJournal community has no system of handling rogues who make it to the boards. I have also seen good and credible people act in manners they should not, just because otherwise the system may crumble. This cannot be allowed to happen with the newer WikiJournals that are eventually to come.

I need a precise deadline and methodology for the above. After the deadline is exhausted, I would take the responsibility to start WikiJournal of Terrorism, WikiJournal of Pseudoscience and WikiJournal of Flat Earth. I would sincerely pull together the communities required for effective operations of the same. From a personal perspective, I would never like these to exist on Wikimedia platform but no guidelines currently define what should or should not happen. I would therefore call upon for definitive guidelines for the same. If you think that those should never come into existence, please define the deadline and work on the lines mentioned above. Should you like my constructive inputs on the matter, my application (and this) is open. Should you seek any behaviour of mine to change, please define it in the guidelines and I would be happy to comply. Should you want to do those on your own (i.e. with your boards) you are free to do so. Should you not like to define deadlines for the above within the next two weeks, I would implement those journals and pull together the people committed to those philosophies. I mean every word I say. Feel free to involve the WMF community safety team or perhaps User:Esh77 and User:Doc James.

Without the above, and if the mentioned journals manage to come into existence (via me, or otherwise), I do not think that the WikiJournal project is worthy enough of becoming a sister project in the near future. It would further need to be defined that whether hobbyist communities can run a journal on Wikimedia platform or whether complete professionals with total accountability need to be called in for the same. I am not ok with some EiCs finding it ok with 'outsourcing leadership'. Additionally, right now board members are free to say anything they wish without caring for its validity and without any requirement to account for what they say. I feel this unsupportable and unprofessional and without that I do not suppose that the WikiJournal project should become a sister project (or even exist). Diptanshu 💬 09:49, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Diptanshu Das. For creating new journals, I believe that you're thinking of the WikiJournal User Group Bylaws section 2. Note that additionally anything hosted would have to meet the already existing terms of use, for example "Disrupting the services by inundating any of the Project websites with communications or other traffic that suggests no serious intent to use the Project website for its stated purpose". Whilst hosted on Wikiversity, please also observe the topic bans. I request that you don't create the WikiJournal of Terrorism. Additionally I'd request that you avoid doing things that are deliberately disruptive in general. For the roles of editorial board members, you may wish to consult the individual WikiJournal bylaws article IV| and the relevant sections of the ethics statement. Overall we have tried to avoid policy creep to catch every possible example of bad faith contribution. I assume that you believe that the mission statement of the user group as so far defined by the description, pillars, scope, definition of purpose (and other bylaws). I actually agree that ratifying the code of conduct would be a good step - it fell down the priority list due to a great many other current activities going on and the possibility of implementation of a unified code of conduct. You'll notice the agenda items in the monthly meetings have been a bit full recently, but I'll add it to one of the upcoming meetings. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 09:46, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Please do not feed the trolls. Locally blocked on en-wv. --mikeu ^talk 01:47, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Technical wishlist : Tool designs from Journal scientifique libre

Dear all,

I took a quick overview of the features and I think the JSL principles gives responses to several requests.

Basically the "nominative template" would correspond to "Template:Article info"

And the 'bot' would control for changes in specific fields :

 |last1          = Last name of first author
 |first1         = First name of first author
 |last2          = etc...
 |first2         = etc...

(with use of account name for history page edition controls)

 |submitted      = Submission date (if left blank, indicates unsubmited pre-print)

(to send OpenPeerReview calls on top of editorial board specific reviewer calls)

 |accepted       = Date of acceptation (if left blank, indicates article still in review)

(acceptance being controlled by specific authorship bots, i.e. for each 'journal' a bot that controls that "accepted" fields are filled from account associated to the journal selected for submission) As a remark, in my thesis work I specified that a researcher should be able to "search" (during his-her literature reviewing activities) through semantic request for his specific quality standard (or the one of the institution he-she works in) ; with specific keys, for instance : 'number of satisfied reviewers' - 'with different location - affiliation' - 'control of publication keywords of reviewers' to assert "expertise" etc. The Idea was 'chose what you read, chose what you review' don't depend on what others selected or rejected.

• (not sure for every cases, so to be checked) Ability to annotate version history to indicate which one(s) DOIs refer to As the authors are in control of the "facial version" (history is always rolled back to last modifications from "authors", so they control the article is conformed to the state it has been allocated a "DOI")
• Ability for accounts to reveal identity to restricted user subset (e.g anon peer reviewers, or double-blinded authors) Anonymity's issues : Authors can uses both an account to their own name and/or pseudo. Controls by an editorial board can be made through contacting accounts and requesting "posting" a confirmation sentence from the account to be controlled. According to the stage of publication the 'person' behind the accounts can select the one he's putting in the template real or pseudo.
• Simple forms to submit articles, reviews, and editorial applications Handling the "multiple forms" issue with a page-template principle (editor application ; submission ; reviewing) with one process (in a spirit some will recognize in: everything is a file // everything is a page)
• Automate summary tracking of article status (reviews, author responses, doi, pdf etc)
  • is the direct state of the template under control of the described bots
  • It is unclear the rejection / acceptance is "continuous" in this project. In the associated template "|accepted = Date of acceptation (if left blank, indicates article still in review)" shows the discontinuity. In my proposal review is continuous and it's more a "labeling" by researchers and their communities. This "solves" the re- submission issue pointed out in Objections to the project.
• Namespace unreviewed articles e.g. Draft: or Preprint: is attributed as a direct consequence of the template state and respective categories. (This is particularly a matter of "what is shown". Shinny and polished articles ... so to me a "front page" would "call", as a semantic request, for instance, the "in the month-peer-reviewed" articles with the selection made according to the quality stated by editorial boards). But this indicate that this "sister project" would more act as a "publisher" than a journal.

I'm not qualified for coding this tool but I'm pretty confident in it's feasibility according to existing features of wikimedian projects. Probably that "code" for this is partly existent in wikipedia (building authorship bot would be a "controlled roll back").

Of course, I've divergence with the possibility to change the license outside of copyleft (as for cc-0 in commons for instance). Accordingly to my thesis work I consider the structure providing the least epistemological barrier should have copyleft as a major principle. But it's probably another specific discussion with a broader scop than just JSL or wikijournals.

BR

--RP87 (talk) 09:44, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

June 21 All-Affiliates Brand Meeting

All Wikimedia affiliates are invited to join an urgent All-Affiliates Brand Meeting in two sessions on Sunday June 21, regarding the most recent developments.-- Pharos (talk) 19:59, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Petition toward lucrative journals editorial boards

Hello every body,

It has been quite some time since I have contributed, and I hope this message finds you healthy and well. Here is a petition. The goal is to push some editorial boards to drop their lucrative private journal titles and launch free ones under diamond-copyleft models (as happened to JMLR w:Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Research and LingOA w:Glossa_(journal)).

https://journauxscientifiqueslibres.wesign.it/en

In the related video (yeah french too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrMrJqsVhw) I've been focusing on the 'french system' (episcience.org) as an Overlay Journal seemed the easiest first step for tenured researchers. Feel free to comment debate and produce around it so wikijournal may benefit from this call.

As usual in my actions I've been drawing arrows toward wikimedia, you'll find under "about us" a wikipage to debate it, change-it etc. I'll also receive correction there (I hope). I invited to duplicate the study-page toward en.wikiversity but if you found adequate to forward here (on meta), I guess it would be adequate too if contribution is more active. Feel free to translate, distribute... and sign if you agree of course ;-)

BR

Rudy

PS: I started a translation in German. But this language is way out of my brain since I'm not using it anymore.

the short call was as such

"Wir brauchen eine Änderung der wissenschaftlichen Publikationspraxis. Sagen wir "raus" zum lukrativen Eigentum, das die Produktion und Verbreitung von Wissen parasitiert. Wissenschaftler Wissenschaftlerin bitte erstellen Sie Freie Wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschriften und tragen Sie zu diesen bei, nativ unter Open Access, APC-frei, Copylefted."

--RP87 (talk) 13:26, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

As sent in ML, here is the english script for the second video (in making).

English script

" Covid-19kills, people are afraid and opportunities are opening up. Petitions are flourishing to re-open access to scientific publications. We are talking about it. We twitt - chat- sign… But is that really all of what we can do?

This is the current situation (svg business scholar file) For those who do not know the scholar publishing business, this is simple representation of how it runs. The researcher searches, finds, writes his methods and his results, then sends it for free (most the time) for peer-reviewing and publication in the journal of his choice. Then "peers", meaning other researchers read it, correct it, reject or accept it. The selected “Papers” integrate the journal it is now in the scientific literature. The publishers that own the titles then charge these same researchers for accessing what was produced by them. Actually it is the taxpayer who pays. Apart from this lucrative loop stands archives where researchers can deposit their work freely. You’ll find on the internet majors such as ArXiv or HAL and lots of institutional repositories too. If you gave out your rights on the papers … well RomeoSherpa’s site explains you what to deposit and publishers policies regarding this action.

Of course some researchers in the 90ies thought about using archives as support for journals of their own. It is called Overlay Journaland is probably the easiest and cheapest way out of the lucrative loop. Platforms even exist to do so.

The petition approach is basically asking those you send it for free to no longer charge for access to what has been given to them. This is not the only petition currently, nor the first of the kind.

But is this the only way?

Extract "we can't go out"

Do the exercise. Ask a 6 years old child "On this drawing darling, where should we cut the loop so that you no longer have to pay access?"

(business svg)

In universities, these issues are not always understood, explained, taught, minded, or even cared about.

Extract Thèse Gruson (cession complète des droits)

But when you are in a good editorial position (members of multiple editorial committees, notable reviewers referees, decorated researchers,etc.) you may have better things to do, in my opinion,than petitions. You can do better. You have to do better. Others have already done so! In linguistics, LingOA in mathematics, JMLR

And without suffering from the problem of lower "impact factors" Paid / Free MLj /JMLR (boxed)

etc. there are others (FJN) “FGN” (don't forget to pronounce FGN)

I know that the situation could be described in a more complex way.

Models may vary between platforms Episcience.org from french CCSD– a CNRS part and the OpenEdition journals, ...

Journals are also used for scholarship grants programs. But is this not the charity of the powerful, funds collected on access to knowledge, funds uses that depends on the will of the editors and publishers? What do "the Souths"say? Do they want charity or free access to research from their peers around the world? Where does the recognition of work in the diversity of languages stand? (Florence Piron at "Recherche Responsable")

Mr.Selosse wishes: “to send a strong signal to the big publishers” So dear professors_ anyone in such a position _. Sign out of your editorial board with your colleagues and launch your own title. You’ve seen it works. Diamond journal model: online - free of charges(no subscription or APCs)-and in copyleft to do things right. OK Wanna send a signal, send a big one. Drop the lucrative ones and go with your boards for a diamond model journal. Thanks for freeing our episteme."

--RP87 (talk) 13:45, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

• Hm. I would suggest to join forces with existing initiatives. Researchers are often well-meaning but clueless; https://sparcopen.org/our-work/transitioning-your-journal/ helps them understand what they can do. https://freejournals.org/ and https://www.fairopenaccess.org/ may be of interest. "Petitions" from inside are pledges like the recent https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/ or the older https://www.freeourknowledge.org/ . Nemo 18:08, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Nemo. At least your remark show that it is not clear this petition is aiming for support outside academia (as well as inside) to put pressure on editorial boards from lucrative revues.

In the french video, I mention the JMLR journal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrMrJqsVhw&t=2m55s). Though its origin is linked to sparc http://www.jmlr.org/sparc-pr.html I decided to "skip" that part. I targeted a 5 minutes video and found it already too long with 6 (not knowing what to cut again).

I thought about clarifying "colors" in open access, cause I see a business adaptation around OA-APC that could trap some exploitation capacities. You know the LingOA "our fees are low" thing. (but I'll keep that for another video)

The FJN (as mentioned in the 'english version script') is showed in a glimpse just after that (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrMrJqsVhw&t=2m58s)

I thought of contacting Antonin and Antoine (yeah, year long todo list ...) But I've had no previous contact with their Parisian circle (Telecom Paris - ENS), just a quick indirect exchange trough an open access wikimedian mail list (in 2017 where I stressed out a divergent strategy). And it has not joined the 'Done' list yet (but it's not mid-night yet).

"freeourknowledge" was out of my radar though. I'm no longer employed as a researcher and I' way out of my former 'literature intelligence' I had back in my office days. So thanks for this one too.

I'm thinking about an artwork that could 'mach-up' the different initiatives. Establishing a board (table) with all this could help I think. If you know of one such table I'll be glad to see the url.

BR --RP87 (talk) 22:36, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Sunday August 23: Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Strategic flock of Wikimedians heading in a new direction.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a proposed forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

The idea is to follow up on the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting and other strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, and you are all invited to RSVP here.--Pharos (talk) 21:40, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Sunday September 20 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Birds of a feather flock together.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August SWAN meeting and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, this month we are meeting on Sunday September 20, and you are all invited to RSVP here.--Pharos (talk) 01:39, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Sunday October 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Friendship is a movement value.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the September and August SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including the recent proposed changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, this month we are meeting on Sunday October 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.--Pharos (talk) 17:46, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Sunday November 29 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Take flight with us.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, and October SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including the recent proposed changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, this month we are meeting on Sunday November 29, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although a number of places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 18:52, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Sunday January 10 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Into the blue.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, and November SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including SWAN input on Interim Global Council and Movement Charter, this month we are meeting on Sunday January 10, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To start the exchange of ideas on the IGC early, and to help prepare before the SWAN calls, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this etherpad. If you like a more interactive way of discussing, we have also made a jamboard. Check here for more details.

--Pharos (talk) 18:42, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Sunday February 21 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

We are a mosiac.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, and January SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, this month we are meeting on Sunday February 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To help set priorities for the SWAN agenda, and also to help manage which global conversations should be a focus in general, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this SWAN priorities form. Possible topics include Community Board seats, Interim Global Council, Strategy prioritization follow-up events, Branding, Universal Code of Conduct, Grant strategy, and WMF CEO search. That is a lot of things, which are most important to cover in our upcoming SWAN meeting?

--Pharos (talk) 18:53, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Ukrainian WikiJournal

Hi. I'm researcher and Wikimedian from Ukraine and I have interest in establishing first WikiJournal outside English version. If you are interested or have suggestions, please, tell me.--Brunei (talk) 18:23, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Brunei: Sorry for not seeing this message until now. User:Evolution and evolvability and I happened to have seen your message when we were discussing about WikiJournals in Wikimania. We are really happy that you want to establish Ukrainian version of WikiJournals and we want to hear your thoughts about the idea. Please let us know what you have in mind. Do you have a group of Wikimedians from Ukraine who are also interested in helping to establish? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 16:57, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello OhanaUnited, yes there is a small group of Wikimedians and academics that started discussion this summer. No problems, as we are very sloooow. :-) We are thinking to start with journal on history of science. Unfortunately I missed your session today.--Brunei (talk) 18:56, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

No problem Brunei. I was wondering if you are open to the idea of providing abstract translation of the recent WikiJournal of Science articles into Ukrainian and Russian in the mean time? This is something that I have discussed with Evolution and evolvability and we would definitely be interested to cover greater reach by having the article title and abstract translated into other languages. For example, we have E-extension in Nepal: brief overview in Nepalese agriculture with full-text translated into Nepali, so there are precedents from existing articles that are published in non-English language. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

OhanaUnited, I think we can try this. --Brunei (talk) 22:01, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Brunei:, glad to see the interest! As OhanaUnited mentioned, starting out testing multilingual content uk+en might be a good way to do initial tests (to ensure easy support from existing wikijournals community). Spinning up a fully new separate new journal is quite a bit of work (and larger journals tend to be more sustainable), so I generally favour a smaller number of large journals. However there's info/advice on creating new journals here. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 06:53, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Evolution_and_evolvability, in Ukraine we have our own academic problems as underpayment of researchers, corrupted and conservative Academia leadership, more than 3000 "research journals" most of which are not peer-reviewed at all though claiming it. So we have a different prospective on it. We want to start with something small, a topic, where a real need of journal exists and community can form to understand advantages between Wiki and researchers. Then we can expand our scope to something larger like biology (my next favourite candidate as we have powerful Wikiproject:Biology in ukwiki) or social sciences and humanities. History of science here unites different branches of Academia, as in Ukrainian word "наука" means more than "science", encompassing every knowledge which is not philosophy, theology or art (still art history is sometimes put inside "наука"). We see this as a way to bring a lot of researchers in different fields, who later could be interested in their own journal. Or we will fail and everything will go in vain. :-) --Brunei (talk) 16:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Brunei: Ah, very interesting. A good summary of the difference in context within Ukraine. If there's already a significant uk biology community, then that sounds a logical starting point to pull together a team. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 22:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Brunei: Hello. We have cleared most of our submission backlog. What do you think about having a special issue to publish Ukrainian research? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:28, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

OhanaUnited Hi. Unfortunately, since Feb 2022 all plans and projects are mostly postponed or suspended. Russian invasion put most of the research community in Ukraine at the edge of personal survival, and many (me among them) cannot afford any serious volunteer activity (I edit Wikipedia mostly inertially, as an old-time wiki-drug-addict). War added to the problems I draw here previously, like salaries cut, burned labs, deepening of corruption in science leadership, increased general society neglect of research and Academia ("it is not the time" - though it never was), and so on. Thus, with all my pity, it is just impossible now to start such a lovely project. I hope someday in the years to come we can turn back to it. Thank you for remembering this topic.--Brunei (talk) 05:51, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

@Brunei: No problem. Fully understand. Let's touch base again when things settle down. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 06:17, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Sunday March 21 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Community as a hand-carved gem.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, and February SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Grants relaunch and Community Board seats, this month we are meeting on Sunday March 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 04:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Sunday April 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swanlings grow up together.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, and March SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Interim Global Council + Movement Charter, WMF Resolution about the upcoming Board elections, Community Resilience and Sustainability role in Movement Strategy coordination, Grants Strategy Relaunch, Wikimedia Enterprise / OKAPI, and WMF Executive Transition

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places may have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 18:53, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Sunday June 6 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan of healing.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, and April SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Movement Strategy/Events, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 6, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call an hour earlier in UTC time due to popular demand and to accomodate daylight savings*.)--Pharos (talk) 20:23, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Sunday July 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

The swan or the egg?

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call an hour earlier in UTC time due to popular demand and to accomodate daylight savings*.)--Pharos (talk) 14:51, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Sunday September 26 SWANniversary Party and All-Affiliates Strategic Meeting

Celebrate our first anniversary with SWAN-shaped desserts!

Join the SWANniversary on September 26 as we mark the first year of the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network!

We will have the regular All-Affiliates Strategic Meeting, to be followed by a SWANniversary Party in the after hours session, likely through spatialized chat on WorkAdventure.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, June, and July SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, we'll look together at strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday September 26, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC.)--Pharos (talk) 00:35, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Sunday October 31 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

A swan reflects.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June, July, and September SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter Drafting Committee Set Up Process, Next Steps for Brand Work, 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday October 31, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:30 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call a half-hour later in UTC time due to WikidataCon*.)--Pharos (talk) 02:01, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Sunday November 28 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Chart a new course on the swan ferry.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Hubs+Hubs Workshop, Movement Charter+Drafting Committee, WMDE's 'Future of Wikimedia Governance' proposal, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday November 28, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 20:24, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Sunday February 27 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

To dance is to fly.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Hubs+Dialogue, Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct+Enforcement Voting, Brand, International Women's Day+Gender Gap and WikiForHumanRights campaigns, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday February 27, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).----Pharos (talk) 18:05, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Sunday April 3 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Bots in precious metals are part of our community too.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including UCoC Voting, Hubs Global Conversation held + CEE Hub update, Movement Charter + Leadership Development Working Group, Desktop Improvements, Celebrate Women in March + International Women's Day, Wikimania 2022 survey concluded + Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 17:36, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Sunday May 8 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swans are musical creatures.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including 2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates, Movement Charter/Content preliminary narrative, Human Rights Policy Community Conversations, Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan Feedback, IP blocking and Open Proxies discussion, Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday May 8, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 18:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

2022 Wikimedia Hackathon  - May 20th - 22nd

Hello all, This is to invite you for this year's Wikimedia Hackathon from  May 20-22. We hope to see you there! You can share the update with your community as well. The main event will be held online this year. We have an open call for sessions on our schedule page. If you'd like to host a session, you can simply pick an open slot in the category which best fits your topic. The developer advocacy team also put together some suggestions for how to create a fun session. You can also add project ideas to the Phabricator Board We will share more information soon about how to join the online space. You can also check through the list of local meetups holding around the world, you may find any closer to you. If you have any enquiry or translation requests, please contact hlepp@wikimedia.org See you there! Best regards, James Popoola On behalf of the 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon Committee.

James Moore200 (talk) 17:46, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Sunday June 5 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan impressions.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation this June, WMF Proposal for Movement Strategy Forum, New rounds of WMF Conference Funds including in-person events, WMF Proposal for Sound Logo Contest, WMF Elections Analysis Committee selection, wikimania:Program submissions due June 10 (scholarship and local event grants due June 3) and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 5, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos (talk) 20:49, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Sunday July 3 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan celestial.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation last week, Affiliate voting period to shortlist WMF Board candidates (July 1-15), Wikimania updates, Desktop improvements, Wikimedia Enterprise first customers, Call for program submissions and updates for a global diversity of regional/linguistic Wiki-Conferences, Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:55, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

(Initial Review) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings group contacts,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2022 annual reporting became past due in 2022-07-01. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2022 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,
Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

Thank you for the notification. WikiJournal has submitted the report and is compliant now. Mikael Häggström (talk) 20:12, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Sunday November 13 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

bestiary (Q830560)⊆compendium (Q1459574)⊆reference work (Q13136).

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimedia Research Fund, 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process, feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, various Wikimania topics: (ideas/suggestions for Wikimania 2023, expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond, expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee), and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday November 13, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
UTC times are different from before, and also note that some areas may have recently experienced daylight savings time changes.).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:18, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Notification of upcoming reporting due date

Greetings group contacts,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization reporting date is coming up in 22 day(s). Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2023 annual reporting will be due in 2023-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2023 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,
Dumisani Ndubane

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

Sunday, January 8, 2023

(Initial Review) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings group contacts,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2023 annual reporting became past due in 2023-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2023 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 17:43, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

(Initial Review) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings group contacts,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2023 annual reporting became past due in 2023-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2023 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 17:43, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

(First Reminder) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings group contacts,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2023 annual reporting became past due in 2023-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2023 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 13:37, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Are you sure this is the right page to notify the participants? Being just the proposal page... –SJ talk  16:56, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Still a great idea!

Worth revisiting how to make progress, now that community interest has been confirmed and the journals themselves have seen growing activity. –SJ talk  16:56, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Great idea.😘 Leosshwbsjshybddbdbd (talk) 14:57, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

@Sj Thanks for following up. We have spoken to the Board of Trustees. They are creating a committee and formal pathway for approving new sister projects (WikiJournal and Wikispore). There will be discussion on this matter at this year's Wikimania in Singapore. In the meantime, we continue to work on strengthening the project during the pandemic. This includes expanding the editorial boards, planning to roll out a new publishing area (psychology), enacting inactivity policy for editorial board members, hiring and onboarding technical editors, outreaching at Wikimania and EduWiki Conference 2023, and successfully having WikiJournal of Medicine indexed by Scopus. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 13:03, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

🤩 Bluerasberry (talk) 19:08, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Belated reply. WikiJournal of Science is also indexed by Scopus. Our next goal is to have it included in Web of Science. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:04, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi @OhanaUnited:, unfortunately all activity on the Wikijournals seems to have stopped in the past year. Has it moved to another site? I see from the various grant proposals that the implementation ended up being very costly and top-heavy. Is there discussion among the participants about ways to move back towards the wiki roots? Maybe there's a natural wiki component which is simple, without gatekeeping, closer to preprints, and a "traditional publishing" component which could be realized differently for every journal that uses shared free software to draw from / repackage / polish that material off wiki? That could benefit from what we learned from the various book publishers that have packaged and formatted wiki content over the years. –SJ talk  21:19, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure where you got the impression that all activity has stopped in the past year. WikiJournal of Science published 9 articles this year, including an article that is dual-published and contents re-integrated into English and Japanese Wikipedias. WikiJournal of Medicine published an article this year (low output was because of resignation of editor-in-chief due to busyness IRL). Humanities has been a struggle since COVID due to higher workload and increase in precarious employment contract among staff.[11][12][13] Behind the scenes, we have rejected a lot of subpar submissions which often don't show up in any of our reported metric. This is no different than New Page Patroller on Wikipedia declining newly created articles which do not meet the inclusion criteria. We have been promoting the journal to encourage submission and recruiting to refresh the editorial boards at Wikimania Katowice, WikiConference North America 2024 and Ukraine Wiki Education Conference (11:30 - 12:10 timeslot). I'm equally puzzled by your claims that the implementation being very costly. We received approximately $100,000 USD of grant funding each year (except last year, which was less) and our reach is international. That is less than the grant funding for three-day WikiConference North America 2024 activity while being regionally focused. Even Knowledge Equity Fund recipients receive more money than us. In comparison with other, recent sister projects, I don't think the implementation of WikiJournal will cost a lot. Wikidata started with 12 staff and salary dollars alone for first year of Wikidata easily eclipsed the lifetime funding that WikiJournal has received. And likewise for the salary cost of Abstract Wikipedia staff team if you want a more recent example. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 07:01, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

(Second Reminder) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings group contacts,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2023 annual reporting became past due in 2023-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2023 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 22:14, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Sunday July 16 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (Global Council focus, now available in ar, es, fr!)

SWAN: The Next Generation

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimania Singapore, Future of SWAN, Movement Charter/Content new sections (particularly Movement Charter/Content/Global Council), other activities you submit, and we will top it all off with a grand finale AI Happy Hour / Doom Hour!

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 16, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
Note that we are now meeting on Zoom, with interpretation in the 2nd session in (Arabic) (Spanish) (French)--Pharos (talk) 02:41, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Notification of upcoming reporting due date

Greetings Mikael Häggström, Evolution and evolvability,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization reporting date is coming up in 21 day(s). Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2024 annual reporting will be due in 2024-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2024 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 14:53, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

(Initial Review) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings Mikael Häggström, Evolution and evolvability,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2024 annual reporting became past due in 2024-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2024 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 17:08, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

(First Reminder) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings Mikael Häggström, Evolution and evolvability,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2024 annual reporting became past due in 2024-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2024 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 17:29, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

(Second Reminder) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

Greetings Mikael Häggström, Evolution and evolvability,

This is a notification to bring to your attention that your organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting. Wikimedia Affiliates are required to submit an annual activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review for a renewal. Reports must be written in English, posted to meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal.

This page is used to track how organizations and groups are meeting reporting requirements described in their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. chapter agreements, thematic organization agreements, user group agreements). It is the central place where affiliates can add reports about their activities, share their plans, and even news or social media channels with the wider movement. When new reports are available, organizations and groups should add them to this page to keep their columns up to date.

As noted on the meta Reports page, your organization’s 2024 annual reporting became past due in 2024-01-30. Please be sure to:

• Post your 2024 annual reporting to the meta via the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal as soon as possible to return to compliance with your user group agreement.

• Check that your group’s page is also up to date with past report links for historical record-keeping, and

• Please send an email to Wikimedia-l in order to share with a movement-wide audience.

If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to wadportalwikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

--User:DNdubane_(WMF) 15:12, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Noted. We will investigate. Thanks. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 21:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@DNdubane (WMF), we submitted the affiliate annual activity report in early May. But about a week ago, User:ecsussman got an email from the Grant team saying that the affiliate submission is rejected. Can you confirm if the submission has gone through? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 13:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Sunday June 23 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (WMF BoT statement on Movement Charter ratification)

A group of SWANs heading to the meeting

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the recent statement by the WMF Board of Trustees liaisons statement on the Movement Charter in which the liaisons stated that they will be recommending the Board of Trustees not to ratify the final draft of the Movement Charter. The community and affiliate votes on the ratification are supposed to start on Tuesday, 25 June. This meeting offers a venue to discuss the situation and formulate the "next steps".

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, June 23, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

Nadzik (talk) 16:30, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Sunday July 28 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (Results of Movement Charter ratification)

SWANs gathering for a conversation

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the results of the Movement Charter ratification. We will also discuss the aftermath of the Board of Trustees' decision to veto the Movement Charter, including their recent proposals. We will also cover updates about upcoming Wikimania 2024.

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, July 28, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

Nadzik (talk) 19:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Comment on latest grant proposal

I left a comment on the latest proposal page, about ways to simplify the core work without worrying about so much overhead, and what could be learned from OpenReview. –SJ talk  21:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)