Hello, members of the list,
Thank John Riedl for introducing potential venues of publication for
Wikipedia researcher. Such advice from mid-career scholars are helpful
and practical. I can use more of them. Please write down what you
think will be a good venues for Wikipedia-related research, and what are
these journals are looking for. (Some many new journals these days...)
May I suggest a trade-off? A series of special editions on
Wikipedia/Wiki across different journals could be a nice trade-off
between a Wikipedia research-specific journal and individual submissions
to different journals.
Through such a process, a necessary self-reflecting on why Wikipedia
as subject of research matters across related journals/disciplines
should emerge. And if enough existing disciplines are engaged, we (as
members of the mailing list) may have better ideas whether and how a
Wikipedia research-specific journal can be justified to make substantial
contribution.
I hope the suggestion on organising special editions (or even
panels) across existing journals will be more manageable and fruitful at
this moment. We need some kind of cross-generation communication
between early-career and mid-career scholars as well as
cross-disciplinary exchange on this.
Sharing your experience in *submitting* and *reviewing* Wikipedia
research articles would be a great start. I am sure I can learn from
both positive and negative experience.
Best regards,
Han-Teng Liao
Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
John Riedl wrote:
Greetings, Fellow Wikipedia Researchers.
In creating a new journal one of the key issues is demonstrating
enough "paper pressure" that is high quality, but not suitable for
existing journals. Is there evidence that there is high quality
research in Wikipedia that is not suitable for existing journals, or
that is not receiving a fair hearing in the review process for those
journals?
I am an associate editor of ACM Transactions on the Web, which would
be a great place to publish high quality Wikipedia research that is
analytic or tools-based. For Wikipedia research that has a strong
user interface or ethnography component ACM Transactions on CHI would
be perfect. Wikipedia research that has both intelligent algorithms
and interfaces would be perfect for a new journal that ACM has just
approved called ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.
(I'm co-Editor in Chief of the new ACM TiiS.)
So, while the idea of having an outlet for high quality Wikipedia
research to get published in journals is an excellent one, and would
certainly improve WikiSym as a research venue, rather than competing
with it, there already seem to be great outlets for most of the
relevant research.
Is there high quality Wikipedia research that should be published in
journals that is not suitable for these venues?
Best,
John
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