Closed Daniel-Mietchen closed 2 years ago
I just read the authors' responses to the reviews.
Quick notes on this:
Here is what I wrote as my review this time:
I welcome the changes the authors have made - both to the manuscript itself (of which I read the bioRxiv version 5) and to the WikiCitationHistoRy repo - in response to the reviewer comments. I also noticed comments they chose not to address, but as stated before, none of these would be ground for rejection. What I am irritated about is whether the proofreading has actually happened before the current version 5 was posted. For instance, reference 44 seems missing (some others are missing in the bioRxiv version, but I suspect that's not the authors' fault), while lots of linguistic issues in phrases like "to provide a comprehensive bibliometric analyses of english Wikipedia’s COVID-19 articles" would still benefit from being addressed.
At this point, I thus recommend that the authors (a) update the existing Zenodo repository such that there is some more structure in the way the files are shared (b) archive a release of WikiCitationHistoRy on Zenodo
There was also a detailed set of questions about conflicts of interest, to which I responded as follows:
I have been contributing to the Wikipedia ecosystem since 2002, including to the coverage of the Ebola, Zika and COVID-19 epidemics on Wikipedia and Wikidata. In this context, I received a stipend from Wikimedia Germany to attend Wikimania 2018 (see my notes about the event at https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen ), where one of the activities I organized was a Disaster Response Meetup (cf. https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Disasters_meetup ). I have served as PI of a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (cf. grant proposal at https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.5.e35820 ) to improve Scholia, a Wikidata-based scholarly profiling tool used to explore the COVID-related literature. Similarly, I was co-PI of a Wellcome-funded project (cf. proposal at https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e66490 ) aimed at making metadata about clinical trials more readily available in underserved languages via Wikipedia and Wikidata.
That was beyond the 300-char limit, so I shortened it to
I contribute to the Wikipedia ecosystem's coverage of COVID-19 and related topics. I received a stipend from Wikimedia Germany to attend Wikimania 2018 and funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Wellcome to improve Wikidata-based scholarly profiling software and coverage of clinical trials.
but requested the longer text to be included.
I updated the Zenodo record accordingly:
as per https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.01.433379 .
See http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4909923 for earlier round.