Hi again,
I also clarified in ARTICLE III - JOURNALS https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Draft_bylaws#ARTICLE_III_-_JOURNALS: "The WikiJournal Council may request additional criteria that an individual journal needs to fulfill before being eligible for inclusion".
As such, we may request any of the additional demands as previously suggested at #Adoption_of_bylaws https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Adoption_of_bylaws if we feel uneasy with any newly created journal. I still don't think it benefits the project to have a large number of criteria in the Bylaws.
Best regards,
Mikael
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Mikael Häggström < editor.in.chief@wikijmed.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Do you think we can accept the proposed Bylaws for WikiJournal in their current format?
Since there is no rule beforehand how they should be adopted, I started a section Talk:WikiJournal User Group#*Consensus / vote* https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Consensus_.2F_vote
Best regards,
Mikael
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Mikael Häggström < editor.in.chief@wikijmed.org> wrote:
Hi again,
There have been some changes https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=WikiJournal_User_Group%2FDraft_bylaws&type=revision&diff=1670390&oldid=1668034 to the bylaws draft https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Draft_bylaws, following discussion at Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Adoption_of_bylaws https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Adoption_of_bylaws.
Notably, in its current format, the "overall board" will retain the title WikiJournal Council in order to avoid mix-up with editorial boards. Also, it will consist of both representatives of each journal as well as community-elected members.
Regarding the acceptance of new journals, the currents draft states that journals not yet accepted by the Council should have "Preliminary WikiJournal of.." as the title. At the same time, such title probably discourages potential authors to submit their works, so I think I don't think we should have any strict criteria beyond those given in the suggested bylaws https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Draft_bylaws#Section_1._Criteria when considering accepting new journals. Instead, I've expanded the page WikiJournal_User_Group/Starting_a_journal https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Starting_a_journal to give a recommendation about the steps, and in which order they may be done. After all, even those criteria in the bylaws would require WikiJournal of Science https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group#Journals_in_this_group to officially require peer review for all articles, or have its name changed to "Preliminary WikiJournal of Science". We can always choose to remove a journal if it seems to move in the wrong direction.
Also, to facilitate in the creation of new journals, I have the idea that we could have an entire "template journal", with all the basic pages necessary, so that those wanting to create a new title can start off quite fast by just adding the name of the subject.
Best regards,
Mikael
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Mikael Häggström < editor.in.chief@wikijmed.org> wrote:
Hi WikiJournal participants,
I've made a draft of bylaws at WikiJournal_User_Group/Draft_bylaws https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Draft_bylaws. Please make any comments about the content soon, so we can go ahead and form consensus on adopting them. After that, we can elect the board.
Best regards,
Mikael