"Highly rated" is an interesting property. One of the ways that a publication venue becomes highly rated is by being highly restrictive. In fact, the primary measurement of the quality of a publication venue is the acceptance rate of that conference.WikiSym is not considered highly rated because a high proportion of the submitted papers are accepted. Would a wiki journal be more restrictive in order to gain a "highly rated" status?I think it's interesting to ask why WikiSym needs improvement and why attendance has been falling. If a WikiSym is a wiki conference that is struggling to maintain participation, how might a wiki journal surmount such trouble? Assuming that the answer to my question above is "yes, the wiki-journal would be more restrictive", how would such a journal gather more submissions than an established conference like WikiSym -- enough to both produce regular issues and maintain a high rejection rate?-AaronOn Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:I think people want a "highly rated" publication venue. Also,
> To state it plainly, why do we need yet another publication venue specific to wiki software?
«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.»
But what you're saying suggests that maybe work should be done to
improve existing venues rather than creating a new one.
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