I also support adding the inclusion of plain language summary in author guidelines. I don't think it needs to be mandatory; I think it can be included as "It is recommended that..."

Best regards,

Mikael

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Felipe Schenone <schenonef@gmail.com> wrote:

Fully agree.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 4:51 PM Diptanshu Das <das.diptanshu@gmail.com> wrote:

I would strongly support inclusion of plain language summary in the abstract.

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Diptanshu

  

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On 15 June 2017 at 08:37, Thomas Shafee <thomas.shafee@gmail.com> wrote:

Support as an option for authors (e.g. if they have used plain language in their abstract, there is no need to duplicate).

We can think about what to do with that summary if the content is integrated into Wikipedia. For topics like Cerebellum, we could integrate the summary in to SimpEng Wikipedia (e.g. simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum), but for niche topics like PfEMP1 it might be less suitable.

Thomas

On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 at 00:44 Lisa Kip <lisakip@gmail.com> wrote:

Also in support.

Lisa

Lisa Kipersztok, MD, MPH

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Family Medicine Residency Program

Oregon Health and Sciences University

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Michaël Laurent <michael.laurent@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

at the suggestion of Gwinyai I would like to discuss whether or not we would include in our Author guidelines for future submission the advice and/or requirement to authors to add a Plain language summary.

This has already been included in https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Images_of_Aerococcus_urinae ; but many other recent articles don't have this.

I think in the spirit of Wikipedia and to make any topic accessible to the widest possible audience I would welcome these. Several big journals already use these e.g. Cochrane, JAMA, Ann Intern Med etc. have summaries for patients. Only sometimes they are written by the authors themselves and sometimes by the Editors/Journal.

I support adding Plain language summaries to the Author Instructions.

PS: I also added a topic for this discussion online: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Publishing#Plain_language_summaries

with kindest regards,

Michaël

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