Dear all, I have not been privy to those past conversations but here are my comments anyway: - I am not thrilled about the name WikiJournal, given that https://wikijournal.org/ exists and what it does. - there is still room to sort out naming issues as long as we are not formally organized - there was a similar situation with Wikitravel, which resulted in the name change to Wikivoyage - another similar situation arose with WikiProject Med, which wanted to be registered as "Wikimedia Medicine", but that was not OKed by WMF - I am not sure having WikiJournal (under whatever name) as a different sister project is the best way to move forward, and in any case, it is not obvious to me how Philip could help with that other than by contributing the domain. - If it were to become a new sister project, why not just go for something like https://journal.wikimedia.org and perhaps "Wikimedia Journal"? - I think it makes sense to aim at becoming a thematic organization as a next step, once the naming issue is sorted out
Cheers, Daniel
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Gwinyai Masukume parturitions@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Diptanshu,
Several of us were not keen on Wikijournal because the name had already been used. I guess the naming issue is now water under the bridge.
Kindest regards, Gwinyai
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Diptanshu Das das.diptanshu@gmail.com wrote:
If you people remember, I had initially spoken against adaptation of the name Wikijournal. It was because of the confusion that entities like https://en.wikijournal.org/wiki/WikiJournal may create. The subsequent vote shifted toward WikiJournal and that is perfectly ok but our by-laws should clearly mention about this WikiJournal, the Wiki Journal Club etc. stating that these are independent and un-affiliated.
Regards Diptanshu
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On 25 February 2017 at 01:57, Mikael Häggström editor.in.chief@wikijmed.org wrote:
Hi WikiJournal participants!
I had a talk with the domain owner of wikijournal.orgrecently, and it is possible to merge our projects if we attain a WikiJournal/Future as separate Wikimedia project - see also talk entry there at en.wikijournal.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal. I think the most important next step is to become a "thematic organization", proving that we can work as a separate organization: I can start a draft of bylaws soon.
Best regards,
Mikael
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