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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