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WikiJournal User Group
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WikiJournal User Group is a publishing group of open-access, free-to-publish, Wikipedia-integrated academic journals. <seo title=" WJM, WikiJMed, Wiki.J.Med., WikiJMed, Wikiversity Journal User Group, WikiJournal WikiMed, Free to publish, Open access, Open-access, Non-profit, online journal, Public peer review "/>

Monday 15 Nov @ 11am East Africa Time

Attendees

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  • Obanda Johanssen (AfricArXiv)
  • Jo Havemann (AfricArXiv)
  • Thomas Shafee

Agenda

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Find areas where AfricArXiv and Wikimedia con collaborate (WikiJournals in particular, but maybe also wikidata)

Background

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AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works. We partner with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers on the African continent and globally.

Notes

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  • AfricArXiv has varied research output even before the journal level.  
  • AfricArXiv can host non-English language items
  • AfricArXiv is connecting several research outputs to allow researchers to make available
  • AfricArXiv is a combination of many repositories using currently 6 platforms
    • Qeios, OSF, Pubpub, Zenodo, ScienceOpen, Figshare
  • Often researchers from African countries face additional barriers:
    • Location, Race, Neo-colonial attitudes, Language
    • Sometimes omit affiliations to increase odds of acceptance
    • ‘Helicopter researchers’ from outside effectively mine knowledge then leave
  • Questions:
    • Which technical systems are possible to integrate?
    • (How) Can WikiPreprints/WikiJournals be added to the AfricArXiv repositories portfolio?
    • Other collaborations opportunities?
  • AfricArXiv ongoing and related project:
  • Wikimedia:
    • Wikimedia started with WikiJournal of medicine then more journals were added over time.
    • Shared preprint server where authors can upload, write directly, https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints
      • It is editable and easy to use (VisualEditor interface).
      • It has its own integrated reference manager (Citoid, powered by Zotero).
      • It is set up so that it is easy to request peer review for a preprint (by submitting to one of the WikiJournals).
    • The journals in Wikimedia remain relatively stable, while the linked information on Wikipedia can evolve over time.
    • There is a wiki specific identifier called QID, and also assign DOIs for published articles and not for preprints because preprints change so often (Many micro-versions)
    • Possible connections:
    • Peer review
      • Public (all comments and responses visible)
      • Open identity (80% of peer reviewers choose to have open identity, remaining ones simply list their areas of expertise)
      • In addition to the invited peer reviews (coordinated by journal editors) anyone may add a spontaneous comment/review.
      • Long term goal of integrating with PubPub, Publons, and other Peer Review services
    • Possible grant relevant to AfricarXiv from the WMF:
  • Wikidata
    • Some aspects of particular relevance to AfricArXiv
    • Scholia = Google scholar but more info and open source (but doesn’t not index as many articles yet)
    • Including AfricarXiv article basic metadata in Wikidata could track useful statistics and visualisations
    • Including AfricarXiv article extra metadata (STARDIT
    • Examples from WikiJournals
  • Repository options compared (Spreadsheet)  
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Follow-on meeting: WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2021-11-22

Action Items

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