Submissions:2022/An Overview of WikiJournal

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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:

Andrew Leung

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