On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:14 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.
I like this observation. A few natural follow up questions to people here would be:
(1) Where do you currently read about wiki research? (2) Where do you currently publish about wiki research? (3) What's missing?
For me:
(1) I get a surprising amount of leads from conversations that happen on this list, and I don't pay all that much attention to where I end up grabbing the papers from in the end.
(2) I've published at WikiSym, and in (for instance) Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, or other subject-specific conferences/workshops. One of these papers was picked up and republished by Digital Education Review. I also contributed to a paper that was published at Alt.CHI.
(3) For me, what seems most "missing" is a place to talk about the future of research in a *productive* (not necessarily "scholarly") way. For some thoughts gleaned from this list, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas#Rethinking_the_future_of_... -- but where to continue things like this? Not sure.