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This file contains clarifications pertaining to questions I am frequently posed about my pledges, though not necessarily in the same way. If you have additional questions or need further clarifications, please let me know.

Questions

Annotations

  • Do I annotate web resources?
    • Less than I would wish, but yes

Authoring

  • Do I consent to drafting manuscripts by sending around email attachments?
    • No
  • Which platforms am I willing to use for collaborative drafting?
    • ARPHA
    • Codeberg
    • Etherpad
    • GitHub
    • GitLab
    • Google docs
    • MediaWiki
    • Nextcloud
    • Overleaf

Collaboration

  • Am I open to collaborate
    • with people I do not know?
      • Sure
    • with people from other backgrounds than mine?
      • Sure
    • in an online-first fashion?
      • Sure

Diversity, equity and inclusion

  • Am I willing to do my part to improve the situation?
    • Yes

Editing

  • Am I available as an editor for scholarly venues?
    • Yes, if
      • I have sufficient expertise.
      • All publications in the venue are openly licensed.
      • The publishing fees are reasonable or absent.
      • The journal and/ or its publisher have signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment.
      • I can find the time.
      • I get reasonable answers to any additional questions I may have, e.g.
        • integration with Wikimedia projects
        • integration with CiTO
        • mapping of content to societal challenges
        • perks for editors

Events

  • Am I willing to
    • attend remotely?
      • Yes
    • organize remotely?
      • Yes
    • present remotely?
      • Yes
    • experiment with formats
      • Yes

Interviews

  • Am I willing to be interviewed?
    • Yes, if
      • I have sufficient expertise.
      • The interview results in at least some materials that are openly licensed.

Letters of reference

  • Am I willing to provide letters of reference?
    • Yes, if
      • I know enough about whoever is to be portrayed in the letter.
      • I understand the context for which the reference is sought.
      • I know the requested language well enough to provide such a letter.
      • I can base a good part of the letter on publicly verifiable information.
      • The timeline works out.

Licensing

  • What is the licensing of things that I shared in public?
    • In many cases, this is stated explicitly. If not, then my contributions to it are to be considered to be under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0). So if I am the sole contributor to something, it is to be considered to be available under the terms of CC0 1.0. Nonetheless, I would appreciate attribution and even notification where practical. Note that I did sign some copyright transfer agreements in the past, but the last time I did that was around 2012.

Peer review

General provisions

  • Am I available as a peer reviewer for scholarly resources?
    • Yes, if all of the following conditions are met
      • I have sufficient expertise.
      • I find the resource intriguing or at least interesting in some way.
      • I can find the time.

Specific provisions

These apply in addition to the general ones.

  • Am I available as a peer reviewer for scholarly manuscripts?
    • Yes, if all of the following conditions are met
      • All publications in the venue are openly licensed.
      • The materials I am to review are public and openly licensed at the moment my review is requested.
  • Am I available as a peer reviewer for scholarly grant proposals?
    • Yes, with a strong preference for proposals that are made public
    • Details depend on who asks
      • Grant authors
        • Yes, if they can demonstrate an intent to publish the proposal (e.g. by pointing to another one that is already public)
      • Funders
        • Yes, if they have useful responses to my questions:
          • What are you doing to address the prevailing perverse incentives in academia?
          • What is the timeline for the reviews?
          • How do you plan to match the proposals to the reviewers?
          • What precise information do you require from reviewers? Is there a form to fill in or a rubric to follow, and if so, can I see them beforehand?
          • How long are the proposals I am expected to review?
          • What aspect of the proposals are going to be public?
          • Will data management plans or other associated materials be part of the review process? If so, how?
          • Will there be any form of interaction between reviewers for a given proposal, or between reviewers and authors (e.g. an author response to reviewer comments)?
      • Others, e.g. grant reviewers or journalists
        • Depends, but generally yes if what they produce on that basis is publicly available under an open license.
  • Am I available as a peer reviewer for scholarly data?
    • Yes, if the data are open or have at least open metadata
  • Am I available as a peer reviewer for scholarly software?
    • Yes, if the source code is public and openly licensed
  • Am I available as a peer reviewer for scholarly output management plans?
    • Yes, if they are made public
  • Am I available as a peer reviewer for other outputs of scholarly workflows?
    • Yes, especially if they are made public

Publishing

As an author or co-author of scholarly manuscripts, am I willing

  • to post the manuscripts as preprints?
    • Yes, if
      • they are put under an open license
  • to pay open-access charges?
    • Yes, if
      • appropriate funding is available
      • fees are reasonable
  • to publish behind paywalls?
    • No
  • to publish under non-open licenses?
    • No
  • to sign copyright transfer agreements?
    • No

Where do I "document my insights into the societal benefits of activities that take up a major part of my time", as per principle 2?

This is still in flux but below are some pointers. I might eventually move this to a dedicated file.

Who cares?

Others who have made similar pledges

Others who commented on my pledges