Re: [WikiJournal-en] Seeking a Wikipedian in Residence (U.S.)

27 Feb 2020

Hmm…

 This position has two aims:

to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of the sciences by citing expert articles from Annual
Reviews’ journals.
to help ensure responsible and valuable expansion of (Wikipedia) content.

The first clearly creates a conflict of interest with Wikipedia's neutrality; the
second would normally be OK on its own.

Is there any way that a person paid by a specific publisher could be a genuinely neutral
editor of Wikipedia?  As a ‘management plan’ for the conflict, would they need to avoid
citing works from that publisher at all?  This would of course defeat the publisher’s goal
in creating the position.

Rosie 

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...
  On Feb 27, 2020, at 10:44 AM, Thijs vlijmen
&lt;tvlijmen(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote:

 Hello everyone,

 The way this is posted presents it as an inherent conflict of interest, with the apparent
aim to guide the editorial process to include specific references.

 All the best,
 Thijs

 Sent from my iPhone

  On 27 Feb 2020, at 19:13, Michaël Laurent
&lt;michael.laurent(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

 Is it appropriate to inflate citations from journals from one published?

 BW Dr Laurent 

 Op do 27 feb. 2020 17:56 schreef Jake Orlowitz &lt;jorlowitz(a)gmail.com
<mailto:jorlowitz@gmail.com>>:

 Hi all,

 Annual Reviews, an independent, nonprofit scholarly research publisher, seeks an
enthusiastic Wikipedian-in-Residence (WIR).

 The aim of this role is to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of the sciences by citing expert
articles from Annual Reviews’ journals. The WIR will
  engage with Wikipedia editors across life, biomedical, physical, and social science
articles and WikiProjects to help ensure responsible and valuable expansion of content.

 This is a temporary position for 10 hours/week, paid at $30/hour USD, and is anticipated
to last for up to 1 year. This position can only be based
  remotely from the following states: CA, OR, OH, NV, NC, WA, WI, CO, MA, PA, NY, HI, or
MT.

 PLEASE APPLY!

 https://annualreviewsnews.org/2020/02/25/seeking-a-wikipedian-in-residence/
<https://annualreviewsnews.org/2020/02/25/seeking-a-wikipedian-in-residence/>

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