"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?
-Aaron
On 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:
To state it plainly, why do we need yet another publication venue
specific to wiki software?
I think people want a "highly rated" publication venue. Also,
«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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