Submissions:2022/An Overview of WikiJournal
This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2022.
Title:
- An Overview of WikiJournal
Theme:
- Saturday Longer Sessions
Type of session:
- Presentation
Abstract:
WikiJournal is a diamond open access journal currently hosted in Wikiversity. It has been publishing peer-reviewed articles since 2014. It is a way of bridging the Wikipedia–academia gap by enabling academics, scholars and professionals to contribute expert knowledge to the Wikimedia movement in the familiar academic publishing format that directly rewards scholars with citable publications.
In this session, we present an overview of WikiJournal, publishing criteria, research output, impacts and future direction.
Academic Peer Review option:
Author name:
E-mail address:
- andrewcleung
hotmail.com
Wikimedia username:
- OhanaUnited
Affiliated organization(s):
- WikiJournal User Group
Estimated time:
- 20-30 minutes
Special requests:
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- Similar, but not identical content, was presented at Wikimania 2022 in New York City in August
If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)
- Yes