They were sorted into categories (wikimedia, technology, free culture, etc), and slots were apportioned by approximately how many high ranking (>8) submissions there were in each category. The idea was to provide a good programme for a diversity of interests.
I had to make a couple of judgement calls, especially on sessions that asked for a longer slot. How you compare a one hour session rated 8.6 to two 30 minute sessions rated 8.4?
Bear in mind the ranking system isn't perfect; it's hard to rank consistently across 500 items, and the difference between an 8.4 and an 8.6 is just noise, really. Anything above 8 is already a "strong accept"!
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On 3 June 2014 19:45, edward edward@logicmuseum.com wrote:
Average first choice score was something like 8.93/10, I think we have
an excellent programme to look forward to!
I was intrigued by this. If you rank the 400-odd submissions according to that average score, you get a very wide dispersion. Some of the ones accepted ranked lower than 200. What was the rationale for picking these? You can do the same with 'interested attendees'. Again, some submissions with only 2 or 3 such attendees were accepted. In fact, if you make a binary sort on ranking<90 (i.e. ranking less than the 90-odd submissions accepted) plus interested attendees < 10, it turns out that about a quarter of the accepted submissions fell into that category. Some were extreme outliers.
Of course you can use whatever selection criteria you want, but it seems odd not to make them public. Do you mind my asking what the actual criteria were?
The other Ed
On 03/06/2014 12:11, Edward Saperia wrote:
The first round of submission acceptances was sent out on Sunday night. Acceptees have 3 days to reply with confirmation, or they are considered withdrawn, and second choice acceptances go out to replace them. This process continues until the entire programme is confirmed.
If you haven't received an acceptance do not despair just yet, there may be quite a few second choices as many submissions were dependent on scholarships. It's hard to say at this stage how many will withdraw.
As confirmations come in, they are added to the programme page on the wiki: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme
If you have any questions about the programme don't hesitate to ask me. However, I won't be making any alterations until after the programme is confirmed.
Average first choice score was something like 8.93/10, I think we have an excellent programme to look forward to!
*Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email ed@wikimanialondon.org • facebook http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia • twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
On 3 June 2014 09:29, Hay (Husky) huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
Any news on the acceptances?
-- Hay
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:23 PM, HaeB haebwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Somebody else has now helpfully updated the April 30 date at https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions to read "Delayed until June".
Regards, HaeB (T. Bayer)
2014-05-27 7:25 GMT-07:00 Edward Saperia ed@wikimanialondon.org:
Hi all,
A completed proposal for the programme is being reviewed by the
programme
committee, and we hope to start sending out acceptances very soon.
Apologies
for the delay and poor communication - I'll update the submissions
page.
Edward Saperia Chief Coordinator Wikimania London email • facebook • twitter • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
On 27 May 2014 15:07, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
according to this page[1] acceptance of proposal for Wikimania session should have been sent out on April, 30th.
Since I have made a submission[2] I was wondering if I may have missed some e-mails (including rejection e-mails, eventually). The schedule[3] does not give any additional information at the moment.
Maybe the process of proposal approval is late? Do other people having submitted their proposal have some info? Is it just me?
Thanks and ciao,
C
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