Hi Mikael,

Now that we have $1000 to hire a technical editor for casual hours, do you want to advertise the position internally first based on the task list at WikiJournal_User_Group#Technical_editor.

(Contacts: WikiJMed@googlegroups.com; WikiJSci@googlegroups.com; WikiJHum@googlegroups.com; WikiJournal-en@lists.wikimedia.org)

Tasks of the technical editor would include those that are repetitive for each journal submission, including:

Finding and preparing lists of names, credentials and emails of potential peer reviewers for submissions
Copyediting, including image formatting and checking reference formatting as well as attributions to creators for images.
Preparing and uploading the pdf version of articles upon acceptance
Generating DOI codes (Digital Object Identifiers) for accepted articles

If having deeper technical experience, the technical editor could help out in tasks such as:

Creating a for for adding metadata items to articles at WikiData (Example page)
Creating a bot for keeping the Article info template synchronised between main page and subpage and add accepted articles to the relevant issue page.
Be able to help out in developing items for the technical wishlist of WikiJournal

The hiring process will consist of first looking among current board members and associate editors for an appropriate candidate. If this doesn't lead to choosing a technical editor, then it will be advertised externally. Any candidate will be interviewed ´, wherein all WikiJournal participants may could suggest questions. 2-3 people will volunteer to screen applicants, with summaries sent to all editorial boards. The technical editor will then be hired based on consensus among board members. That person will begin editing with a limited budget, and the result will be evaluated to make a decision of whether to proceed in the same manner.

If nobody comes forward, then we can work out what site jobs to advertise on.

Thomas