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Follow-on from WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2021-11-15
Monday 22 Nov @ 11am East Africa Time

Attendees

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  • Jo Havemann (co-founder AfricArXiv)
  • Thomas Shafee (EiC WikiJournal of Science & chair of user group)
  • Obanda Johanssen (Community Manager AfricArXiv)
  • Gwinyai Masukume (Asst. Editor in Chief - WikiJournal of Medicine)
  • Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (Wikimedian)
  • (last 30 mins) Isaac Olatunde (Assoc editor - WikiJournal of Medicine)

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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Follow-on from WikiJournal User Group/Meetings/2021-11-15
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 at least 500 items archived
  • Working together:
    • Use of wikipreprints as one of the repositories for researchers to deposit their work
    • Serve researchers wanting to have their works peer-reviewed through wiki journals
    • Getting metadata on preprints that are on AfricArXiv onto wiki-data
    • Connecting communities / community building
  • https://info.africarxiv.org/new-dawn-for-african-researchers-as-tcc-africa-and-africarxiv-announce-formal-collaboration/
  • How to sustain the collaboration:
    • Decide on specific projects to fund if possible
    • Continuing volunteer engagement
  • Both Wikimedia and AfricArXiv are reaching out to institutions across Africa.
    • https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/african-wikimedians-aflia-pre-conference-wikipedia-workshop-24-may/3950
    • https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/african-wikimedians-aflia-gets-a-wikipedian-in-residence/3598
    • Daniel Mietchen has been/is working with Wikimedians in Ethiopia
  • Most active collaboration with GLAMs: Ghana, South Africa, Algeria
  • Different user groups within Wikimedia. Most academic examples:
  • Percentage of AfricArXiv research articles up for peer review
    • About 70% of articles
    • We are lobbying universities for preprints to be seen as publications
  • WikiJournals is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, Google Scholar (not perfectly indexed - tech fix)
  • Scholia pull info out of wikidata.
    • Linking API of the different repositories of AfricArXiv to show on Wikidata
  • There is an opportunity for AfricArXiv to present to the national chapter of the following, and vice versa:
  • Training and presentations

Related scholarly resources

  • https://zenodo.org/communities/africarxiv/search?page=1&size=20&q=wikidata
  • Houcemeddine Turki, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Thomas Shafee, Tiago Lubiana, Dariusz Jemielniak, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric A. Youngstrom, Mus'ab Banat, Diptanshu Das, & Daniel Mietchen. (2020). Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of Wikidata. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5544840
  • https://scholia.toolforge.org/chemical-class/Q87719492
  • A WikiJournal 'promotional' video to share, it summarises what the journals offer/do  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tt3lu08d18
  • https://github.com/AfricArxiv/hub-and-search-portal

Action Items

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  • Establish a workflow - description for users
  • Creating a workflow around peer review on wikijournals  
  • streamlining the submission workflow from AfricArXiv preprints to wikijournals
  • WikiJournals indexing in scholarly databases
    1. √ Web of Science
    2. √ Scopus
    3. X Pubmed
    4. X PubmedCentral
    5. √ Google Scholar
    6. √ DOAJ
    7. √ Dimensions.ai
    8. Not yet applied:
      • Lens.org,
      • BASEsearch (base-search.net),
      • OpenAIRE,
      • Scienceopen.com
  • Steps:
    1. Outline a Memorandum of Understanding
      • How our visions/goals/objectives align
      • What we want to achieve together
      • Draft in Google doc
      • Putting out an announcement
    2. Start to draft a plan/roadmap (Split into sub-projects)
      • High priority: Connect the community of people who are using AfricArXiv with the wikijournals as a publishing location to get their peer review organized.
      • Medium priority: Include WikiPreprints as an option within the ‘stable’ of AfricArxiv supported platforms
      • Medium priority: Cross-community presentation and training (librarians, academics, wikimedia user groups)
      • Lower priority: Get Wikidata items for all AfricArXiv items to use for discoverability and visualisation
      • Determine which can be done purely volunteer, and which require financial/developer support
    3. Apply for a Wikimedia_Alliances_Fund (timeline) for community support
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Action Items

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