Dear friends
I would like to let you know that the property proposal for Altmetric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Altmetric_ID has been approved (P5530 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5530). The next step would be to find people who can develop a gadget https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets to pull the dynamic data from Altmetric servers. On my personal capacity I will try to find the right people who can get it done. I would be glad to get any helpful inputs from anybody in this regard.
Now, talking about working together, I know that somehow we had entered into some misunderstandings which possibly creates a set back. But I would like to point that all of us here are volunteers working toward a cause which is rather selfless. So, I would encourage you all to participate whole heartedly and to take WikiJournals ahead as a whole. We need to understand that we need to rise beyond our personal reservations and apprehension and strive to contribute to cumulative and collaborative development. While working at WJM, while communicating and collaborating with its members I have always felt at home and among peers who are motivated and caring. I believe that the same can be extended to the other groups as well. Rest assured that victimization is out question and that you have no reason to get anxious. Rest assured that if something seems broken, it can be fixed, and that you have peers who are waiting to take the plunge in an attempt to help you out.
I think that all of us, from each of the individual projects (WJM, WJS and WJH) need to come together as a single team and lay down concrete plans about the subsequent course of action, and then act upon it.
While attending Wikimania I interacted with a number of people and while I found overall enthusiasm, I also found that people were hardly aware of its existence. Personally, despite being a medical editor for 10 years, and despite WikiJournal of Medicine being in place since 2014, it was not before 2-3 years had elapsed after its inception that I came to know about its existence. With WikiJournal of Science and Humanities coming up, we need to reach out to people and make them aware of their existence. About a month back I had put a proposal to the mailing list and Thomas had augmented it with yet another. Neither of the proposals bore any significant response from the board members of the three journals. I am forwarding the thread along as I believe that it needs to be taken ahead.
We needs to understand that what we are working upon is still in its infancy and there is a lot to be done. We need to work together. I need a show of hands about who are willing to jump in.
Regards Diptanshu
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Forwarded conversation Subject: Reaching out with the message of WikiJournals ------------------------
From: Dr. Diptanshu Das das.diptanshu@gmail.com Date: 1 July 2018 at 17:57 To: wjmboard wjmboard@googlegroups.com, WJS board < WJSboard@googlegroups.com>, WJH board WJHboard@googlegroups.com
Hi
With the arrival of WJS and WJS, the scope of WikiJournals has become extended to a wide audience. I think that we need to figure out ways to reach out to people and make them aware of the existence of such a platform.
I would suggest forming a template message and to reach it out to targettable audience.
The message should contain: * What WikiJournals are all about. * Summary of the google doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kPVyOXvrhnUmBMF9sFDk6sHpxP-YReHFIWYilesFMao for WMF blog interview. * The link to the WMF blog post, in case it has already been posted by that point of time. * How the users could group together, collaborate, and form new journals in case they can procure a motivated team. * Any other points.
As a first step we can post the message on the talk pages of participants of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Science/Guest_book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_History/ Outreach/Participants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Archaeology/Participants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anthropology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_History_of_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology/Members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Politics/Participants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fashion Any others that you all can identify.
Regards Diptanshu
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---------- From: Rachel Wexelbaum rwexelbaum@yahoo.com Date: 1 July 2018 at 22:32 To: "Dr. Diptanshu Das" das.diptanshu@gmail.com Cc: wjmboard wjmboard@googlegroups.com, WJS board < WJSboard@googlegroups.com>, WJH board WJHboard@googlegroups.com
Hello Dr. Das and WikiJournal Board Members,
I think Dr. Das’ suggestion to reach out to active Wikipedians to promote the WikiJournals is a good one.
I also think that we should promote these journals to the academic and professional associations, and to college and university libraries, so that people know that they exist.
There are still people in academia who do not see this work as legitimate scholarship and I believe that we have an opportunity to turn that around. It may be a good idea for the board members to create a webinar about these journals, in conjunction with one or two relevant organizations, that can be shared and stored someplace.
Rachel