Thomas has summarised the points beautifully. However, I do not think that the 'buy' option is a valid alternative and we should safely avoid it. It seems that Philip is eager to adapt the academic culture but he has to be convinced first. A patient, polite, respectful explanation should convey the rationale. I think that we should parametrically work out the criteria that need to be fulfilled if the merger is to happen. Let us see if those criteria can be fulfilled from both the sides. If they are met, the merger happens. If not, we do not really have an option.
Philip is keen and he has already taken a number of steps which are a deviation from the direction he was moving earlier. We need to be respectful in this regard. He has accepted peer review. What more do we have to say?
I think that the domain issue can be sorted out.
Regards Diptanshu
On Wednesday, 22 March 2017, Thomas Shafee thomas.shafee@gmail.com wrote:
I think the current options look like this
- *Merge: *Where WikiJMed and other WikiJournal content is hosted on
wikijournal.org (with hopefully maximum involvement by the WMF). 2. *Stay separate:* Where wikijournal.org continues as-is with product reviews and travel destination reviews. Academic journal content remains hosted at wikiversity (maintaining clearly separate identity and possibly competing for use of the name). 3. *Buy: *The WMF buys the wikijournal.org domain outright. Given his grant request https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Philip/WikiJournal.org/WikiJournal, I think Phillip likely values his domain in the thousands of dollars. It would also require the WMF to basically commit to wikijournals running as a full sister project.
I'll try to add to the discussions at v:Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Developing_WikiJournal_project_at_wikijournal.org and the grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Philip/WikiJournal.org/WikiJournal today.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 at 12:28 Felipe Schenone <schenonef@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','schenonef@gmail.com');> wrote:
He won't accept USD 300. It has taken him too much work for that.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 6:48 PM James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jmh649@gmail.com');> wrote:
sounds reasonable
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Mikael Häggström < haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com');> wrote:
Hi all,
There's been some further discussion at: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_ Group#Integration_of_content_from_wikijournal.org
I think Philip needs to choose whether he primarily wants to be an author or an editorial board member of a wikijournal, because it would be an obvious conflict of interest if he was both.
We also need to to know what Philip is willing to do with the wikijournal.org domain. If he doesn't want to donate it, I think it's in order to apply for a Wikimedia grant to buy it from him for perhaps $300, which I think is in the order of what he payed for it.
Best regards,
Mikael
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