WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2024-02-07

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

Dates and locations:

Attendees

WJM Article status
- WikiJournal of Medicine/Potential upcoming articles - Wikiversity
  - Total: 11
  - Reviews received but no response from authors: 3
  - Handling editors but no reviews: 4
  - No handling editors: 3
  - Uncertain status: 1
Board members
- After inactivity policy not many board members
- How can we increase activity
Submissions
- Not getting many new submissions
- Systematic Reviews would be very beneficial

Grant
- Wikijournal and alignment with Movement Strategy 2030
AI
- We need to discuss not ‘if’ - but ‘how’ we will work with AI - for example, could the journals become a place that AI generated articles come to get verified and checked? - Jack and Ellen
Increase citations and relevance
- can we examine the ‘most accessed’ Wikipedia pages, and then analyse areas where there is a dearth of peer-reviewed content
Re-engaging more board member
- Recommend a survey of all Board members understanding needs and preferences - and use this to help guide some kind of learning and development intervention - I would recommend not yet removing people without a chance to ‘re engage’ or learn why people are inactive - this data would then help with future funding applications e.g.: - Jack
  - What would help you be more active? Is there anything else that could be done to help (either Technical Editors or Wiki backend)?
  - Any barriers to you getting involved (time, navigating the backend)
  - ‘I get lost in the backend of the Wiki Journals sometimes, can we collect data on the user experience of Board members to make a case for budget for improving it?’ - Jack
  - Potential to set up a Wiki Journals Signal/ Telegram group for general updates / focused task-based chat? - Jack