WikiJournal User Group

• User group since: June 1, 2016
• Organization type: Non-profit
• Registered in: United States
• URL: wikij.org

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Chapters (40)

• AM Wikimedia Armenia
• AR Wikimedia Argentina
• AT Wikimedia Österreich
• AU Wikimedia Australia
• BD Wikimedia Bangladesh
• BE Wikimedia Belgium
• BR Wikimedia Brasil
• CA Wikimedia Canada
• CH Wikimedia CH
• CL Wikimedia Chile
• CO Wikimedia Colombia
• CZ Wikimedia Česká republika
• DE Wikimedia Deutschland
• DK Wikimedia Danmark
• EE Wikimedia Eesti
• ES Wikimedia España
• FI Wikimedia Suomi
• FR Wikimédia France
• GB Wikimedia UK
• GE Wikimedia Georgia
• HU Wikimédia Magyarország
• ID Wikimedia Indonesia
• IL Wikimedia Israel
• IT Wikimedia Italia
• KR 위키미디어 한국
• MX Wikimedia México
• NL Wikimedia Nederland
• NO Wikimedia Norge
• PL Wikimedia Polska
• PT Wikimedia Portugal
• RS Викимедија Србије
• SE Wikimedia Sverige
• TH Wikimedia Thailand
• TW Wikimedia Taiwan
• UA Вікімедіа Україна
• US-DC Wikimedia District of Columbia
• US-NYC Wikimedia New York City
• VE Wikimedia Venezuela
• ZA Wikimedia South Africa

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Thematic organizations (2)

• CAT Amical Wikimedia
• WPM Wikimedia Medicine

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Wikimedia user groups (143)

• A+F Art+Feminism User Group
• ACD AfroCROWD User Group
• ALB Wikimedia Community User Group Albania
• ARE Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group
• AWUG Arabic Wikimedians User Group
• AZ Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group
• BA-SRP Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska
• BAQ Basque Wikimedians User Group
• BDI Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi
• BEN Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group
• BFA Wikimédiens du Burkina Faso User Group
• BLT Black Lunch Table Wikimedians
• BOL Wikimedistas de Bolivia
• BWA Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana
• BY Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus
• CEE Wikimedia Community User Group CEE Spring
• CI Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
• CMW Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
• COD Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group
• COG Wikimedians of Republic of Congo User Group
• CPH Commons Photographers User Group
• CYP Wikimedia Community User Group Cyprus
• DCW Deoband Community Wikimedia User Group
• DWU Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
• DZ Algeria Wikimedians User Group
• ECU Wikimedistas de Ecuador
• EG Egypt Wikimedians User Group
• ELiSo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
• ESP-WE Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs
• GDV Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group
• GH Wikimedia Ghana User Group
• GIN Wikimedia Community User Group Guinea Conakry
• GR Wikimedia Community User Group Greece
• GUC Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group
• GWU Gungbe Wikimedians User Group
• HDW Hindi Wikimedians User Group
• H-GAPS H-GAPS User Group
• HKG Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong
• HTI Wikimedia Community User Group Haiti
• IE Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group
• IMD Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
• INA Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group
• IN-KL Wikimedians of Kerala User Group
• IN-MR Marathi Wikimedians User Group
• IN-TE Telugu Wikimedians User Group
• IQ Iraqi Wikimedians User Group
• IR Iranian Wikimedians User Group
• JPN Wikimedians of Japan User Group
• JWK Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili
• KAS Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group
• KAZ Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group
• KVL Karavali Wikimedians User Group
• KWU Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
• LAG Wikimedians of Lagos User Group
• LEV Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
• LGBT Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
• LSP Les sans pagEs User Group
• LV Wikimedians of Latvia User Group
• MA Wikimedia MA User Group
• MAI Maithili Wikimedians User Group
• MATH Wikimedia Community User Group Math
• MDG Wikimedia Community User Group Madagascar
• MKD Wikimedia MKD User Group
• MLA Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia
• MLI Wikimedians of Mali User Group
• MLT Wikimedia Community User Group Malta
• MMR Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
• MW-SG MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
• MYS Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
• NAM Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia
• NER Wikimedia Community User Group Niger
• NG Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria
• NGA-HA Hausa Wikimedians User Group
• NGA-IG Igbo Wikimedians User Group
• NGA-YO Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
• NP Wikimedians of Nepal
• NWR-Hist North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
• NZL Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
• OFWA Open Foundation West Africa
• PAN Punjabi Wikimedians User Group
• PER Wikimedians of Peru User Group
• PH-ADV Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group
• PH-WC Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group
• PWU Paiwan Wikimedians User Group
• LK Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka
• ODW Odia Wikimedians User Group
• ROU-MDA Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group
• RWA Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda
• SAT Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
• SEN Wikimedia Community User Group Sénégal
• SGP Wikimedians of Singapore User Group
• SQ Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
• SSA Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan
• STE Wikimedia Stewards User Group
• SUD Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan
• SVK Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group
• SVN Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group
• TCD Wikimedians of Tchad User Group
• TGO Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group
• TJK Tajik Wikimedians User Group
• TN Wikimedia Tunisia User Group
• TR Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
• TRK Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
• TWG Tremendous Wiktionary User Group
• TWU Tyap Wikimedians Proposed User Group
• TZA Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
• TZM Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group
• UGA Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
• US-CAS Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
• US-GAP Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group
• US-IN Wikimedians of Indiana User Group
• US-LA Wikimedians of Los Angeles User Group
• US-MN Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group
• US-NCT North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group
• US-NE New England Wikimedians
• US-OH Ohio Wikimedians User Group
• US-SAN San Diego Wikimedians User Group
• VNM Vietnam Wikimedians User Group
• WAL Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group
• WAM Wikipedia Asian Month User Group
• WB Wikibase Community User Group
• WBG West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
• WCK Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
• WCS WikiClassics User Group
• WDG WikiDonne User Group
• WDU Wikimedistas de Uruguay
• W&E Wikipedia & Education User Group
• WGU Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias
• WIR Women in Religion Wikimedia User Group
• WIS Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
• WJ WikiJournal
• WK? Whose Knowledge?
• WPL Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
• WNA WikiConference North America
• WOW Wikimedians for offline wikis
• WREN Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User Group
• WSC Wikisource Community User Group
• WSD Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
• WSP Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish User Group
• WT Wikitongues User Group
• WUL Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group
• WW WikiWomen's User Group
• WWH Wiki World Heritage User Group
• ZMB Wikimedia Community User Group Zambia

The WikiJournal User Group is a group of academically oriented people committed to developing and maintaining the WikiJournals currently hosted on Wikiversity. The group reviews and publishes a range of article formats. These include broad review articles that become Wikipedia pages (either written from scratch, or adapted from existing Wikipedia pages), focused review articles that may be used to update just one section of a Wikipedia page, multimedia articles that are used to enrich Wikipedia articles, and original research articles. Integrating suitable information into Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) improves the accuracy of the encyclopedia, rewards authors with citable, indexed publications with much greater reach than traditional scholarly publishing, and increases participation in Wikimedia projects.

Members of the WikiJournal User Group encompass a diverse range of roles. If you have any specialist skills and expertise you'd like to contribute, there are a number of potential roles to be involved in either on an ongoing or a once-off basis.

Mission statement

The mission of the WikiJournals is to publish scholarly works with no cost for the authors, apply quality checks on submissions by expert academic peer review, and make accepted works available online free of charge in perpetuity.

Pillars

• No cost for authors to have their works published
• Open access for anyone to read, adapt, and distribute without cost
• Peer review of all articles before publication, by at least two knowledgeable persons for the subject at hand
• Transparency, with peer reviews and article discussions being open for everyone
• Engagement, with anyone free to share ideas, contribute to, and edit the journals (though changes to an article's meaning require a new peer review)

Organization, members and community

General membership

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The User Group is open to anyone interested to join as a member (whether you have a Wikimedia account or not). There is no membership fee and all members can vote in journal elections. In addition to the open email list, we hold several open video meetings each year, and have a number of on-wiki discussion pages. Presentations and posters are also available to check out or share with colleagues.

Join as member

Donations

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WikiJournal User Group relies on donations either to Wikimedia Foundation (Donation site), or directly to WikiJournal User Group:
WikiJournal User Group is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) organization accepting donations through PayPal or credit card.

Stay up-to-date

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WikiJournal is looking for ways to gain more visibility and credibility within academic circles. One step towards achieving this ideal is by building a sustainable network of intellectually driven people willing to exchange ideas and feedback through scientific and philosophical rigor. By following WikiJournal by newsletter or social media, you will stay up-to-date about the latest developments regarding open access publishing, democratic peer review, and more.

Keep in touch

Journal roles

Journal editors

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Editorial boards and associate editors: editorially independent boards that make decisions regarding the journal and its contents, coordinate peer reviews and run most day-to-day editorial activities of each journal.

Administrative board: a group with roles across the journals, including administrative, financial, HR, and creation and/or acceptance of additional journals in the group.

Join an editorial board

Authors

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Writers of submitted articles: range from experienced wikimedians to one-off users contributing new content or submitting from other projects to request external peer review. You can submit original research, review articles, or even Wikipedia articles.

You can also translate any articles (or even just article abstracts) into other languages!

Submit an article for review

Peer reviewers

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Peer reviewers: field-specific experts invited by journal editors to give external comment on submitted articles. They are typically not experienced Wikimedians and often contribute only once in their highly specialized role. Whilst most peer reviews are are invited by journal editors reaching out to experts for feedback, spontaneous feedback on submitted articles is always welcome.

Comment on a submitted article

Staff roles

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Technical editors: assistant staff who help in back-of-house administration, technical, formatting and time-sensitive tasks to support and assist the editorial boards and associate editors.

Project coordinators: responsible for overseeing the articles-in-processing pipeline to make the peer review process as smooth as possible (one per journal).

Administrative assistant: managerial role, coordinating technical editor activities, managing vendors, and platforms, and handling administrtative paperwork.

Executive Director: executive role responsible for supporting and forwarding the operations of the journal group, reporting to the administrative board and editorial boards.

Join an editorial board

Journals in this group

The WikiJournal User Group is intended to support an expanding group of open access journals focused on various topics.

Journal title	Logo	Scope	Review	Abides	Indexed & Listed	Started	Follow
WikiJournal of Medicine Wiki J Med http://www.WikiJMed.org Q24657325		medicine biomedicine	Public academic peer review by independent experts	ICMJE COPE BOAI Details	ISSN: 2002-4436 DOI: 10.15347/WJM DOAJ: Listed SCOPUS: Listed COPE: Member Complete list	2014	Twitter Facebook Mailing list
WikiJournal of Science Wiki J Sci http://www.WikiJSci.org Q22674854		science technology engineering mathematics	Public academic peer review by independent experts	ICMJE COPE BOAI Details	ISSN: 2470-6345 DOI: 10.15347/WJS DOAJ: Listed SCOPUS: Listed Complete list	2018	Twitter Facebook Mailing list
WikiJournal of Humanities Wiki J Hum http://www.wikijhum.org/ Q56816727		humanities arts social science	Public academic peer review by independent experts	ICMJE COPE BOAI Details	ISSN: 2639-5347 DOI: 10.15347/WJH Complete list	2018	Twitter Facebook Mailing list
WikiJournal of Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Wiki J PPB https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_PPB Q105451083		psychology psychiatry behavioral sciences	Public academic peer review by independent experts	ICMJE COPE BOAI Details	Complete list	2023
WikiJournal Preprints Wiki J Pre https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints Q100164397		preprint working paper	Initial checks for misconduct and standards (articles in preparation, or undergoing peer review)	ICMJE COPE BOAI Details	Complete list	2017

Milestones

User Group

• 2014-03-25: Wikiversity Journal is officially created by Mikael Häggström
• 2016-05-31: Recognition as a Wikimedia User Group
• 2017-10-23: Registration as a non-profit organization in Sweden
• 2019-10-15: Awarded Open Publishing Award in the Open Publishing Models category
• 2020-12-21: Registration as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in USA

Individual journals

• History of WikiJournal of Medicine
• History of WikiJournal of Science
• History of WikiJournal of Humanities

Readership

The incoming clicks from the DOI codes of articles amounted to 12,680 per month in September 2022:

• WikiJournal of Medicine: 6,424
• WikiJournal of Science: 5,934
• WikiJournal of Humanities: 323

Articles that are integrated into Wikipedia received further views of 560,000 per month on that site in November 2022:

• WikiJournal of Medicine: 243,180 (with a further 186,780 from articles with sections from WikiJMed articles)
• WikiJournal of Science: 181,620
• WikiJournal of Humanities: 134,460

More resources

• Annual reports
• Meeting minutes
• Articles in review
• Editorial guidelines
• Editorial guidelines
• Bylaws
• Indexing
• Financials and reports
• One-year plan
• Three-year plan
• Calendar
• Contact

See also

• Application to become a thematic organisation
• Proposal to found a Wikimedia Journals 'Sister project'
• Presentation at Wikimania 2019
• Article about the project in The Signpost, 30 June 2019
• Article about the project in The Conversation. May 24, 2016
• Podcast by Primedia Broadcasting. May 31, 2016
• Preliminary WikiJournal of Business and Economics - The nucleus/start of a business journal.
• Comparison to other non-Wikimedia journals