Hello to all those interested in WikiJournals,
In collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation’s trust and safety team, a
code of conduct has been drafted over the last few months. We have drawn
inspiration from CoCs used in different Wikimedia areas and open projects
(listed below the draft).
*Draft code of conduct available here*
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Code_of_conduct/Draft>
Everyone is welcome to provide suggestions on how to improve it: please
join the discussion here
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group/Code_of_conduct…>
!
We aim to put the draft to a vote to implement on the 14th of May.
(Eligible voters = authors + reviewers + editorial boards + associate
editors + members with >30 contribs to any WikiJournal space).
Sincerely,
Thomas Shafee
Hello all WikiJournal participants,
WikiJournal, as a User Group now have one day left of the nominations and
endorsements step of the upcoming Board of Trustees election for the
Wikimedia Foundation:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Update_about_th…
I am registered as the spokesperson in this process, but I don't see any
name mentioned from our group yet, so unless you want to nominate anyone I
will make no nomination for our group.
Best regards,
Mikael
Hi all WikiJournal participants,
The WikiJournal User Group will have a vote in the upcoming election for
members in the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation. I forward
information below. I forward the information given to me, but the short
version is that we can do the following during this stage:
- Discuss involvement in our group
- Discuss ideal candidates
- Nominate and/or endorse someone
Best regards,
Mikael
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:53 AM
Subject: [All-affiliates] ASBS 2019: Nominations now open
To: Wikimedia Affiliates <all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone, and apologies for "cross-posting":
- The Resolution
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2…>
has
been approved
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_…>
by the Board of Trustees;
- *Nominations phase is now open, from April 15 00:00 UTC to April 30
23:59 UTC. See the Call for Candidates
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Call_fo…>
and Nominations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominat…>
pages*
;
- Community members may ask questions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Questio…>
of
the candidates;
- Your main representative has just received an email to confirm that
they are indeed the primary contact and will perform official actions on
behalf of your group (such as endorsing candidates and then voting). Some
groups also need to verify their eligibility status in due time
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports>, as explained in the email;
- New content is available to spread awareness around the process - the
infographic I am attaching has clickable links and can be translated
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Infogra…>,
and a primer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Primer_…>
is
available, that we hope will be particularly helpful to those new to such a
process;
- Finally, *you are welcome to help with translations*! Pick one page
from the ASBS category
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_201…>
and,
in the next couple of weeks, please consider translating profiles of the
candidates
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_201…>
in
particular.
Thanks for your attention from myself and the Facilitators for ASBS 2019,
--
Erica Litrenta
Manager, Community Relations Specialists
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
_______________________________________________
All-affiliates mailing list
All-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/all-affiliates
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 4:40 PM
Subject: [time sensitive; hard deadline] Request for clarity around contact
for Affiliate-selected Board seats process
To:
Hi. This email has important information about the next steps in the
process to select the next two Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees
members [1].
You are receiving this email because, according to our information, you are
the primary contact for the user group you belong to. Therefore you, and
only you, will soon cast a vote on behalf of your entire group or perform
other official actions such as endorsing a candidate's nomination. By April
29, your name must be listed publicly on Meta wiki [2] to document the
above (your vote will also be displayed on the same page, in June). If the
above is fine with you, you don't have to do anything, as we will add this
information there.
If you need to change anything please do one or more of these things *as
soon as **possible*:
-
Would you rather go by your Wikimedia account username instead? Let us
know which one we should use.
-
Are you unsure which group this email is about? Let us know if so.
-
Do you think that someone else in your group is supposed to be the
primary contact for the ASBS process instead? Please provide their name
and email address.
Thank you for your attention from me and the Facilitators of this process.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Eligibl…
--
Erica Litrenta
Manager, Community Relations Specialists
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
Hello everyone,
I keep having too little time to go through the emails from all boards, and
for the moment I need to get this year's grant application approved. I
therefore now resign
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Individual_WikiJourn…>
from my board positions at WikiJHum and WikiJSci, so that I can focus on my
duties at WikiJMed and the administrative board
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group#Members_of_the_admin…>.
I am therefore now removing myself from the email lists of WikiJHum and
WikiJSci. I am happy to see the good work of current board members, and I
am confident that you'll be able to keep the journals going even with less
direct presence from me there.
Best regards,
Mikael
Hi everyone,
A blog post was recently written for Wikimedia UK giving some new updates
on WikiJournals, and ways to get involved.
See the article here: *blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/03/what-are-wikijournals*
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/03/what-are-wikijournals/>
Hi WikiJournal participants,
The bylaws are now updated, and I have notified the Affiliations Committee,
so we are one step closer to becoming a thematic organization of Wikimedia
Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_thematic_organizations>.
Best regards,
Mikael
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Mikael Häggström <editor.in.chief(a)wikijmed.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AffCom] WikiJournal as a thematic organization
To: Tanweer Morshed <wiki.tanweer(a)gmail.com>, Affiliations Committee list <
affcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Tanweer and AffCom,
WikiJournal has now updated its bylaws to comply with the mentioned issues
(see sections below). Details on the community discussions in these matters
can be found at:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Bylaws_review_b…
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Bylaws_review_b…>
.
Please let me know if anything is still unclear, or if there are additional
issues before final consideration for becoming a thematic organization.
*1. Transparency of amendments:*
ARTICLE_IX_-_AMENDMENT
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws#ARTICLE_IX_-_…>
is
now changed to: "These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed and new
Bylaws may be adopted by a majority of votes of the *Administrative
Board*, counting at
least 20 days after a written notice has been given to *the following
forums* with intention to alter, amend or repeal or to adopt new Bylaws:
- *The internal email list of the Administrative Board*
- *The main public email list of WikiJournal*
- *The main online Discuss page of WikiJournal*
*2. Quantifying electorate:*
In Section_3._Appointment_of_journal_representatives
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws#Section_3._Ap…>,
the vote is now decided "*by a majority of votes"* instead of *majority
vote*.
In ARTICLE IV, Section 4. Appointment of community-selected members
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws#Section_4._Ap…>,
we have removed the following paragraph:
- "An election shall be held if supported by a majority vote of all
Administrative Board Members or by a petition supporting a new vote from
greater than 20% of the total people in the groups specified in paragraph
(d) combined."
In effect, the organization will be able to reach decisions even if there
will eventually be a large number of inactive members.
*3. Petitions:*
Article IV, Section 4(b) (Appointment_of_community-selected_members)
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws#Section_4._Ap…>
states
that "Anyone may nominate herself/himself as a candidate for *Administrative
Board*membership. An announcement of candidacy needs to be made at the talk
page of the main page of *WikiJournal*.
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group>."
At Article VII, Section 3
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws#Section_3._Re…>,
we have now added: "...after at least 5 days of voting*, following an entry
at the the main Discuss page of WikiJournal by any registered Wikiversity
user.*
An online wiki entry is thus the formal initiation of member-initiated
processes. In practice, such issues can also begin in emails, either
privately between members or on public email lists. Still, with these
bylaws, a mention in wiki discussions is still necessary before such
member-initiated processes can have effect.
*4. WikiJournal vs Individual WikiJournals:*
We do want WikiJournal to be the thematic organization.
Section_3._Organization
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws#Section_3._Or…>
now
states that:*A) WikiJournal is the publisher of Individual WikiJournals**B)
WikiJournal is responsible for uniformity of editorial procedures, as well
as for the technical infrastructure of Individual WikiJournals.**C)
WikiJournal administers the financials of Individual WikiJournals, unless
having approved an Individual WikiJournal to handle some or all financials
independently.*D) *Each Individual WikiJournal may have its own legal
organization*. Each Individual Wikijournal may have bylaws of its own, as
long as they are compatible with these bylaws.E) (Basically unchanged:) An
Individual WikiJournal group has full powers over all its pages and
*editorial* proceedings. Before having adopted bylaws, the consensus among
active journal participants decides in matters related to that journal.
Furthermore, this is now also reflected for the bylaws of individual
WikiJournals, as seen at:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Individual_WikiJourn…
This article forms a template and is thus directly used in the bylaws of
WikiJournal of Medicine, Science and Humanities. The section begins as:
Section 1. Organization
(a) *WikiJournal* is the publisher of Wiki.J.Med..
(b) *WikiJournal* is responsible for uniformity of editorial procedures, as
well as for the technical infrastructure of Wiki.J.Med..
(c) *WikiJournal* administers the financials of Wiki.J.Med., unless having
approved Wiki.J.Med. to handle some or all financials independently.
(d) Wiki.J.Med. may edit all its wiki pages, including those describing
editorial procedures, without the need for approval by *WikiJournal*.
*5. Scope*
It is an open-ended ambition, in that participants may start journals in
other subjects if they deem the current ones not covering their area of
interest. The following is now added to the bylaws:
Section_2._Inclusion_or_rejection
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws#Section_2._In…>
:
- *Inclusion or rejection of journals to be part of WikiJournal is
decided by a majority of votes of the The Administrative Board of
WikiJournal, counting after at least 20 days have passed since a public
notice of the election has been made at the talk page of the main page of
WikiJournal.*
When articles are on the borderline between one subject and another, we
come to a consensus among the boards which journal is most appropriate.
Best regards,
Mikael Häggström
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 6:15 PM Tanweer Morshed <wiki.tanweer(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear Mikael,
>
> As part of the bylaw review, the AffCom got some questions or concerns.
> Please address the following:
>
> (1) Article IX allows the board to amend the bylaws as it sees fit without
> participation/approval by the broader membership (and, indeed, without any
> requirement to notify the members at all). This potentially allows the
> board to completely change the governance model (e.g. get rid of elections
> and make the board self-selecting) with no warning or way to prevent it. How
> would you address this?
>
> (2) Article IV, Section 4(e) automatically makes all registered
> Wikiversity users who edit WikiJournal pages members. There is no
> provision for a user meeting that criterion to end their membership (either
> voluntarily or because they leave the project); in practice, this will mean
> that the membership will include an ever-increasing number of former
> editors, which will make quorum requirements based on a percentage of
> membership (e.g. Article IV, Section 4(b)). How would you systematize
> this issue?
>
> (3) There are no procedures for how any of the member-initiated processes
> (e.g. Article IV, Section 4(b), Article VII, Section 3, etc.) actually
> work; in other words, how do members make petitions, who receives them, who
> is responsible for initiating the corresponding votes, etc. How would you
> address these?
>
> (4) It appears that the legal organization applying under the WikiJournal
> name (802511-9275) is distinct from the legal organization which runs the
> WikiJournal of Medicine (802505-7095), but it is unclear what the legal
> relationship between these organizations will be and which one would
> actually be recognized as a thematic organization. What is your say about
> this?
>
> (5) The are currently three Journals under Wikijournal: Medicine, Science
> and Humanities. It's not clear or specified in the bylaw to what extent of
> knowledge category the entity aims to operate in or whether it is an open
> ended ambition. Do you have any thoughts/principles on this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Tanweer
>
Hello all WikiJournal participants,
I wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
I've been quite busy lately and I will probably use some of this time to
catch up on emails, but I don't need you to reply at least before New Year
is celebrated.
I can happily announce anyways that we've passed 10.000 monthly views in
terms of incoming links from the doi codes, with a WikiJournal of
Humanities article appearing in the top 10!
I look forward to experience a new year of collaboration for expanding and
spreading open access knowledge to the world.
Best wishes,
Mikael
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: <reports(a)crossref.org>
Subject: Resolution Report for prefix 10.15347 from Dec 5, 2018
*Resolutions for last 12 months.*
We continue to filter out known search engine crawlers. This month they
accounted for 113,984,938 resolutions.
Months 2018-11 2018-10 2018-09 2018-08 2018-07 2018-06 2018-05 2018-04
2018-03 2018-02 2018-01 2017-12 2017-11
Resolution Attempts 12,270 7,780 4,154 2,036 1,878 1,970 1,554 1,289 1,528
1,312 1,283 1,149 1,512
Resolution Successes 11,885 7,394 4,005 2,027 1,845 1,934 1,499 1,288 1,524
1,308 1,277 1,144 1,511
------------------------------
Total Attempts for all members 352,053,795 447,061,465 343,575,811
355,450,288 291,322,494 247,013,737 278,309,967 261,952,234 257,283,789
210,059,895 228,482,091 204,714,141 200,175,219
------------------------------
The overall resolution failure rate for all publishers is 3% and your
failure rate is 3%. These failures may result from deposit errors by the
publisher or from linking errors being made by end users. If your rate is
significantly above zero or the overall average please investigate to
determine the cause.
------------------------------
Top 10 DOIs Resolutions to DOI
10.15347/WJM/2017.007 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.007> 1311
10.15347/WJM/2017.008 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.008> 845
10.15347/WJM/2017.003 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.003> 834
10.15347/WJM/2017.004 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.004> 816
10.15347/WJM/2017.002 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.002> 739
10.15347/WJM/2017.005 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.005> 732
10.15347/WJM/2017.001 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.001> 695
10.15347/WJM/2017.006 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.006> 673
10.15347/WJM/2014.010 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2014.010> 564
10.15347/WJH/2018.001 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJH/2018.001> 555
------------------------------
Resolutions attempts 12,270
Resolved at Handle 11,885
Handle Failures 385
Resolved at local link server 0
Unique DOIs attempted 76
Unique DOIs resolved at handle 38
Unique DOIs that failed at handle 38
Unique DOIs resolved at local link server 0
------------------------------
Resolution Counts by Publication Title
Publication Title Total Resolutions Unique DOIs
WikiJournal of Humanities 563 2
WikiJournal of Medicine 9,112 27
WikiJournal of Science 2,210 9
[image: bild.png]
Hello, all! Exciting news to share that the first article of WikiJournal of
Humanities has been published to the front page of wikijhum.org
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Humanities/%C3%86thelfl%C3%A…>,
written and submitted by Dudley Miles, covers the life and legacy of the
10th century ruler of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
More articles are soon to be added to this inaugural issue of the newest
WikiJournal offering.
--Sarah Vital
Member, Editorial Board, WikiJournal of Humanities
--
Sarah Vital
Business Librarian
Saint Mary's College of California
she / her / hers
(925) 631-8038 | svital(a)stmarys-ca.edu
Staff Directory
<https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/library/staff-directory/sarah-vital> | Faculty
Profile <https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/node/143291>
Hello all,
In terms of incoming links from our doi codes (statistics forwarded below),
we are definitely growing!
Best regards,
Mikael
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: <reports(a)crossref.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:20 PM
Subject: Resolution Report for prefix 10.15347 from Nov 15, 2018
*Resolutions for last 12 months.*
We continue to filter out known search engine crawlers. This month they
accounted for 126,785,786 resolutions.
Months 2018-10 2018-09 2018-08 2018-07 2018-06 2018-05 2018-04 2018-03
2018-02 2018-01 2017-12 2017-11 2017-10
Resolution Attempts 7,780 4,154 2,036 1,878 1,970 1,554 1,289 1,528 1,312
1,283 1,149 1,512 1,421
Resolution Successes 7,394 4,005 2,027 1,845 1,934 1,499 1,288 1,524 1,308
1,277 1,144 1,511 1,410
------------------------------
Top 10 DOIs Resolutions to DOI
10.15347/WJS/2018.006 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJS/2018.006> 783
10.15347/WJM/2014.010 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2014.010> 583
10.15347/WJM/2017.002 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.002> 505
10.15347/WJM/2017.003 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.003> 429
10.15347/WJM/2017.008 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.008> 414
10.15347/WJM/2017.001 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.001> 411
10.15347/WJM/2017.007 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.007> 406
10.15347/WJM/2017.004 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.004> 387
10.15347/WJM/2017.005 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.005> 383
10.15347/WJM/2017.006 <https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2017.006> 375
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Resolution Counts by Publication Title
Publication Title Total Resolutions Unique DOIs
WikiJournal of Humanities 32 2
WikiJournal of Medicine 4,631 27
WikiJournal of Science 2,731 9
CrossRef has created a system to automatically email publishers statistics
on the number of DOI resolutions through the DOI proxy server (
https://doi.org/) on a month-by-month basis. These numbers give an
indication of the use of your DOIs and the traffic coming to your site from
users clicking DOIs. The DOI links are largely from links in other
publishers' journal references to your articles, but they are also from DOI
links in secondary databases, links from libraries using DOIs, and even
DOIs in used in print versions.
When a researcher clicks on a DOI link for one of your articles, that
counts as one DOI resolution. A DOI resolution is when a DOI is "clicked" -
for example, clicking on https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02426 counts as one
resolution to Nature. No information is captured about who the user is or
where they are coming from. The information on DOI resolutions is captured
by the web server logs on https://doi.org/ which is run by CNRI on behalf
of the International DOI Foundation. These numbers are not a precise
measure of traffic to your site - cached articles, search engine crawlers
not following re-direction and traffic that is directed to a locally
appropriate copy through a library link resolver would be included in these
numbers, but would not result in inbound traffic on your website.
Nevertheless, these numbers provide one important measure of the
effectiveness of your participation in CrossRef.
In March 2004, the report on DOI resolutions through the main
https://doi.org/ proxy server was updated. This report now tracks the
number of DOI resolutions based on the owner of a DOI:
- Resolutions : attempted resolutions of DOIs based on the owner of the
DOI.
*Top 10 DOIs* is a list of the most popular DOIs that were successfully
looked up and how many times each was looked up.
*Resolution attempts* is the same at total "Resolutions" above.
*Resolved at handle* is the number of resolutions that successfully looked
up at doi.org.
*Handle failures* is the number of resolutions that failed to look up at
doi.org, either due to a technical problem or because the DOIs did not
exist.
*Resolved at local link server* counts resolutions that were looked up at
local link servers.
*Unique DOIs attempted* is the number of unique DOIs represented in the
total "resolutions attempted" from above.
*Unique DOIs resolved at handle* is the number of unique DOIs represented
in the "resolved at handle" count from above.
*Unique DOIs that failed at handle* is the number of unique DOIs
represented in the "handle failures" count from above.
*Unique DOIs resolved at local link server* is the number of unique DOIs
represented in the "resolved at local link server" count from above.
The attached file, if present, contains all of the DOIs that failed to
resolve followed by the count indicating the number of times that DOI was
attempted.
*"na" - means that data is not available for that month and type. *
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