Scholarpedia:Assistant Editor

From Scholarpedia

Interested graduate students and postdocs are invited to volunteer with Scholarpedia as assistant editors. There is a small but vital amount of work to be done in key projects involving a few hours per week. Contact editor-in-chief@scholarpedia.org if you would like to volunteer. Mention your knowledge of WikiText, HTML, LaTeX, and your English skills.

Complete list of present assistant editors.

Featured author column

Main Page of Scholarpedia features selected authors on a monthly basis. Ideally, the featured author column should be updated weekly.

Job: Interact with the editor-in-chief and other editors of Scholarpedia to identify candidates for the "featured author" column. Contact the authors to prepare/confirm their biography and to get a recent photo. Post the biography to the main page.

Project Page: /Featured Author Column.

Project leader: Leo Trottier, UCSD

Copyediting and assistance to authors with WikiText

Many invited authors of Scholarpedia are senior experts, often retired, who have no knowledge of wiki environment and WikiText format. They are also confused by the online submission system and the web in general.

Some authors need help with converting illustrations from one format into another (e.g., large .gif file into smaller .jpeg, or .avi movie into animated gif).

Job: Be the liaison between authors and Scholarpedia. Help authors to convert articles from MSWord/LaTeX to WikiText, to upload figures, to submit them for peer-review. In addition, work with the editor-in-chief to develop guidelines for a good style. Modify existing articles to conform with the guidelines. Enforce the style in new articles.

Requirements: knowledge of WikiText, LaTeX, and HTML is required, plus native English and superb sense of style.

Project Page: /Copyeditor Help.

Project Leader: Tobias Denninger, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA