WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2020-05-07

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Attendees

Date: 7 May 2020 @ 12PM UTC (=7AM EST)

• Kelee Pacion
• Angelo Basteris
• Roger Watson
• Gwinyai Masukume
• Thomas Shafee

Agenda

• 10 min - Debrief of last meeting - Welcome any new members
• 5 min - Action items from March
• 5 min - New technical editor
• 5 min - Processing times for articles
• 5 min - Next public meeting?

Notes

• Article questions when submitted from wikipedia (wp:JAN).
  • Quality of a Good Article and whether it meets the standards of WikiJournals.
  • Authorship of articles- who owns original WP version.
    • Edge cases- idea of someone submitting a well written article as their own.
    • Current requirement would be to make significant improvements first
  • Structure of Wikipedia styles and discipline specific styles, broadness and specificity of disciplines.
  • Importing articles from Wikipedia and exporting articles into Wikipedia, can be part of the broader concept: can import a smaller section for WikiJournals.
  • Can check authorship of different sections of WP page using ‘Who wrote that’
• New Technical Editor- User:Masssly.
  • Highly competent wikimedian
  • Thomas has met with him on Jitsi to run through summary of processes
  • Discussion of appropriate compensation.
    • Strongly wish to avoid exploitation
    • Wage was listed on application, but was not negotiated
    • $1000 available
  • Payment options:
    • Per hour
    • Per task
    • Per year (retainer)
  • Need to discuss this with larger group
• Discussion of Thematic organization and being a Sister project
  • Still in process, no recent contact
  • Likely Covid has disrupted work patterns
  • Thomas to recontact and check on progress
• WikiJMed has not yet hit 25 relevant items
• Spike in submissions during last month (link)
  • Angelo requests assistance in learning ropes on review coordination
  • Also offers to assist in maybe making video clips
  • Maybe use videowiki for those videos for editability
• Looking to slowly improve wikidata annotation (example) and integration
  • Eventually automate tracking table

Action Items

• Share these minutes to metawiki with any confidential info redacted (Thomas)
• Organise next meeting public (Kelee)