WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2023-06-13

WikiJournal User Group
Open access • Publication charge free • Public peer review • Wikipedia-integrated

Dates and locations:

June 13, 2023 12:00 PM UTC
June 13, 2023 10:00 PM UTC

Attendees

First Meeting

Roger Watson Thomas Shafee Emma Chiu Ellen Sussman Michel Bakni

Second Meeting

Ellen Sussman Andrew Neil Andrew Leung Emma Chiu Thomas Shafee Mikael Häggström Sarah Haggstrom

Agenda

Status update on in-progress articles from each journal
Editorial board applications
Updates/reports from EduWiki Conference
Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association online conference
- 19-21 Sept (registration not yet open)
- Any volunteers to submit a presentation / lightning talk?
Web_of_Science application
Workmarket update
2022 financial report finished by Mikael
990 Tax form
There is a task titled, "Edit all titles to sentence case (discussion)" - what is the consensus so far?
Preprint submissions
Wiki Conference North America

Meeting Notes

Notes (First Meeting)

Wiki J Med Update

Cleaned up tracking list - 6 articles remaining; 2 with unresponsive authors
Need people to pick up some articles at above
Immune system article cleared up and hopefully ready to review soon; 1 review is in
RW heading to China for 3 weeks so will be unresponsive until return

Wiki J Sci Update

Update in Evening meeting

Wiki J Hum Update

Talk to board about future of journal
Would like to have representative at every meeting

Editorial board applications

WikiJ Sci can be closed - all support - accepted
Wiki J Med 1st application has support but still need to wait for response
Wiki J Med 2nd needs more time
Wiki J Med 3rd follow up - lost login for old account

Plagiarism check

Potentially have Ellen do this task - talk with Thomas

EduWiki Conference

Update from Andrew

WikiMania - Singapore

Thomas will be using Wikimedia Australia
Space for 1 more person from editorial board

Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association online conference

19-21 Sept - registration is now open
Options to present lighting presentations
All proposals should be submitted by June 26, 2023 via this form which asks for a brief description (up to a strict maximum count of 250 words) of your proposal. Registration costs for the authors of successful proposals will be waived.

Web_of_Science application

Science or Medicine first? - Which is most likely to get accepted
6 months to get an answer
1-2 year “cooling down period”
Timeliness of Publication could be looked into by them
Thomas - Wiki J Med first

Workmarket update

Needed to be location independent
Integration test ongoing
Close to being rolled out
2 ways to add task
- Same as old system
- Or directly onto workmarket
Hopefully July Meeting it can be up and running

2022 Financial Report

Unclear if spoken for or allocated amount

AI (i.e. ChatGPT - Need to think about the future)

Articles written by AI
Need disclosure
Put guidance up?

Editing Titles

Sentence casing
Support: Thomas, Roger, Michel

Notes (Second Meeting)

Preprints

WikiJSci received a number of already-published articles submitting for publication through the Preprint pathway. Appears to be misunderstanding of what Preprint is. Should we update the instructions on Preprint page?
- Need to update instruction on Preprint, authorship declaration form and infobox

Wiki J Sci Update

Fixing Non-canonical base-pairing PDF
Peter following up but still not received
Fixing Wikidata for one
Broadbill articles
Reviewer stepped back on Sustainability
MALT1 and CARD-CC have not been editing since mid march
Design Effect anonymous reviewer desired to remain anonymous, was informed of contacting policy

Wiki J Hum Update

Number of submissions since december and have not been allocated
Need to see if we should pause submissions until backlog is tackled
May need to prioritize articles
Ask Technical editors to find a potential list of peer reviewers for unassigned
- 6-10 potential reviewers
- Start small scale for budget purposes
May have contact from EduWiki conference for board

EduWiki Conference

Stickers are a huge hit
- Integrate url as QR code into sticker detailing a brief description of Wiki J
Met some board members
Sending presentation on youtube
Conference proceedings in WJH
- Thais proposed this idea
- Check editorial board if they are ok
- Thais is suggested to be the guest editor
Members of thematic group approached
- Process stopped pursuing because of some grants were previously excluding user groups
- Would like to continue the process to be recognized as thematic group

WikiConference North America

In Mid-Nov in Toronto
Theme - recent changes (AI is Huge)
Scholarship opportunities for delegates open next week after language translation

Online conference (see first notes)

May need to edit the presentations

Wikimania - Singapore

See who may be interested - application process
- Ellen and Sarah - application process

WikiConference Updates

Email to have all the information together

Conference acceptance

Vetted based on criteria
Can be very tight
Focus on underrepresented regions

Web of Science application

Indexed by Web of Science may lead to influx of submissions
- Do we have enough staff to handle the increased volume of submissions?
- Thomas suggested to do more desk reject if necessary and too many submissions (but not ideal solution - better to bring in more editors)