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The full newsletter containing details from the May meeting and other action items is below. To visit the original and make comments or changes click herehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1rn9oVtrKp-pTuDx8RP22w5btdub5xgkwwGdcax1kFwU/edit?usp=sharing

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WikiJournal User Group

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group

June Newsletter

Welcome!

June 2019

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By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3153928 and By Mikael Häggström. Also updated by Brian Groen. Esperanto version included in separate layer by Piet-c. - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35199728

ACTION ITEMS Articles up for decision/board member applications/required discussions

· Most recent editorial boards meeting noteshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Meetings:

· Vote on the proposalhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal for WikiJournals to become a full WMF 'Sister project'

· The WikiJournals currently have 10 open applicationshttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group/Editors for editorial board members and associate editors requiring comment.

· Code of Conduct drafthttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Code_of_conduct/Draft open for comment and feedbackhttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group/Code_of_conduct/Draft

· Vote on proposed Bylawshttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Bylaws_review_by_AffCom_part_2 updates to be eligible as thematic organisation

o herehttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Bylaws/Proposed_changes and herehttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Individual_WikiJournal_bylaws/Proposed_changes

· Wikipedia Signpost articlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evolution_and_evolvability/Signpost_draft - review and make changes to the draft

Overview from May 2019 Meetinghttps://docs.google.com/document/d/12zNLAyqzHUajBTW29NE2hs2mNbgY9CVnh386UWodI-k/edit?usp=sharing

· Draft of proposed bylaws- details below under ACTION ITEMS

· Four modest proposalshttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Up_for_debate:_four_modest_proposals- an essay on WikiJournals and how to evolve

· Dyslexiahttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints/Dyslexia as a case study to create policy on article processing and editor input (refer to meeting notes for a bit more detail)

NEW PUBLICATIONS

· Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographieshttps://doi.org/10.15347/wjh/2019.003

UPDATES

· Social media team- planning dochttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zrQseidhOZxK_tlu_kDbYxwC2wGsmDO8vbCmT9ftwJQ/edit#gid=1036768995

o Tweetshttps://twitter.com/wikijsci- still organizing how often tweets are going out

o FB posting https://www.facebook.com/WikiJSci/

· Strategic liaison

o Part of Working Grouphttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups

· Indexing

o Scopus (in prep WikiJMedhttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_of_Medicine#SCOPUS_reapplication and WikiJScihttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_of_Science#SCOPUS_application)

o PubMed Central (in prep)

o ReimagineReview (acceptedhttps://reimaginereview.asapbio.org/listing/wikijournal-user-group/)

o DOAJ (WikiJSci in processing)

LINKS TO KEY DISCUSSIONS

· Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group/Editorshttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group/Editors (10 open applications)

· Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Board_of_trustees_nominees_questions_pagehttps://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Board_of_trustees_nominees_questions_page

NEXT MEETING

· Kelee will facilitate the set up for the June/July meeting

· Doodle poll of potential meeting dates/times will be sent on June 13

· Need volunteers to set up the July/August meeting

Newsletter Team Kelee Pacion, Gwinyai Masukume, and Sarah Vital

If there is anything you would like to add please reach out to Kelee Pacion (kpacion@princeton.edu).

Kelee Pacion, M. ED, MLS, MPA Biology Librarian Lewis Science Libraryhttps://library.princeton.edu/lewis (609) 258-8601 [cid:image001.jpg@01D4308E.5A95E810]