The impression that I get from many of these symposia (and journals) is that there is not much space for research concerning Wikipedia and Education, such as teaching methodologies, case studies and such, not on the side of hard-science chunks of data. I know of lots of other professors who are doing the same thing as myself, but I see not many places for exchanging our experiences (conference-wise, not online channels, which, franky, I don't think are working much). Do you feel there is good room to topics such as mine?

Thanks,

Juliana.

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Ed H. Chi <chi@acm.org> wrote:

There has been a lot of talk about how to start a journal. The real
issue in starting a journal is not the editorial board, or the way it
is published, or whether it will gather the citation impact. The real
issue is READERSHIP.

If you can get people to read the journal, then it will have editors
wanting to serve the journal, and it will gather citation impact.

The reason why WikiSym is changing is for the same reason. People are
not going to the conference! I think the attendance has been below
100 for some time now. That's not a sustainable number for the amount
of work that goes into organizing a conference.

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Ed H. Chi, Staff Research Scientist, Google
CHI2012 Technical Program co-chair

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