Hi again,

There have been some changes to the bylaws draft, following discussion at 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 when considering accepting new journals. Instead, I've expanded the page 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 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. 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