Scholarpedia:Assistant Editor
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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. Please, check the list below regularly, as new projects may appear. Contact editor-in-chief@scholarpedia.org if you would like to volunteer for any of them. Mention your knowledge of WikiText, HTML, LaTeX, and your English skills.
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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.
- Leo Trottier, UCSD (project leader)
- Biswa Sengupta, Cambridge, UK
- Srikanth Ramaswamy, EPFL, Switzerland
- Juan Pablo Carbajal, Switzerland
- Nikos Green, Germany
- Jian Liu, UCLA, USA
- Abdellatif Nemri, Canada
- Elias August, Oxford, UK
- Maxime Lemieux, Canada
- Sundeep Teki, Oxford, UK
Follow-up authors of approved articles
Interaction with authors of approved articles on behalf of Scholarpedia (good communication skills are required). Most of the authors are living-legends in their respective fields.
Linking to articles from author's web pages
To ensure that Scholarpedia articles appear at the top of the Google search, authors not only need to cite articles in their university pages, but also link to them. Unfortunately, many authors do not know how to do that.
Job: Check the authors' websites, contact those that do not have links to Scholarpedia, and help them incorporate such links.
Project Page: /Linking to Articles From Author Pages.
Follow-up invited authors
Editors of Scholarpedia send invitations to the best experts most of whom respond within a week. Approximately 10% of invitations are never answered despite repeated (automatic) follow-ups from Scholarpedia server.
Job: Contact the experts via phone, answer any questions they have about the project, and help them to reserve the article or to decline the invitation (ask for the name of "the second best expert" in the latter case).
Project Page: /Follow-Up Invited Authors.
Identify original authors/inventors
The goal of Scholarpedia is to invite the original authors and inventors to write articles. Sometimes, the choice is quite obvious: L. Chua for Chua Circuit, T. Kohonen for Kohonen Network, or J. Hopfield for Hopfield Network. Often, it is not clear at all whom to invite. For example, who invented wavelets? Sometimes, it is not clear how to contact the original author. For example, where is Kalman of the Kalman Filter?
Job: Search the web, talk to experts, make phone calls, get the name and the contact info of the original author/inventor.
Project Page: /Identify Original Authors.
- Amir Saffari, Austria
- Rui P. Costa, Portugal
- Joseph Salisbury, USA
- Srikanth Ramaswamy, EPFL, Switzerland
- Juan Pablo Carbajal, Switzerland
- Nikos Green, Germany
- Abdellatif Nemri, Canada
- David Bouchain, Germany
- Florian Hauser, Germany
- Maxime Lemieux, Canada
- vacant
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.
- Tobias Denninger, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (project leader)
- Srivas Chennu, UK
- Jie Bao, Germany
- Juan Pablo Carbajal, Switzerland
- Ian Stevenson, Northwestern University, USA
- Jian Liu, Math, UCLA, USA
- Memming Park, Florida, USA
- Andrew Whitford, Pitt/Carnegie Mellon, USA
- Elias August, Oxford, UK
- Jianqiang Shen, OSU, USA
- Burak Erdeniz, Turkey
- Nicolau Werneck, Brazil
- Edinah Koffi Gnang, Rutgers, USA
- Abdellatif Nemri, Canada
- George Kastellakis, Greece
- Sundeep Teki, Oxford, UK
Search Engine Optimization
It is important that Scholarpedia articles come first in web search results. For this, the internal structure of Scholarpedia must be optimized to maximize Google PageRank and other criteria used by search engines.
Job: Interact with editor-in-chief to optimize Scholarpedia for search engines. Requirements: must be familiar with white-hat SEO.
Project Page: /SEO.
