Well I think that double blind peer review hardly make sense here, from the reviewer POV, as we are in fact small community and it is  easy to guess who was a submiter in most cases. For example - if there is a submission about project X in country Y, which was funded by WMF grant - it is very easy to find out who was grantee and it is rather obvious that that person is a submitter :-)

Also  judging from the several reviewers comments which I saw already - they did not follow the very vague criteria which was posted here:

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Critical_issues_presentations#Evaluation

Normally - at least in Academia - reviewers are forced directly (by the review form) to address their opinion in relation to the criteria. The criteria were:

"
  1. problems and possible solutions in a specific field
  2. proposals for others to replicate
  3. issues (positive or negative) which have emerged from projects
  4. issues you want to raise which you feel have not been discussed yet
  5. issues which are at the centre of an online debate that you would like to address offline

"

1-4 are IMHO relatively easy to evaluate - I would expect from the reviews to answer yes or no to them. 5 is a bit tricky as it depends strongly of what the reviewer think is "at the centre"  - but I would expect that they at least explain in few words here what they think is "at the centre" or not :-)



2016-02-04 0:22 GMT+01:00 Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj@alk.edu.pl>:
hi,

I have some comments as a person from Academia (and not involved in Wikimania process in any way):

1. Short reviews are definitely not helping in addressing the frustration of rejection, yet are quite common in academic peer reviewing, especially for conferences. 

2. Double blind peer review (not knowing who is reviewed, and not knowing who reviews) is a standard in Academia, although some perceive it as contributing to lack of responsibility (especially true in competitive journal submissions).

3. Two reviewers per submission is absolutely on par with the conference standards I'm used to. Sometimes there are three, but two is absolutely acceptable (although a third opinion should be used if the two disagree too much). 

4. It could be useful to sensitize the reviewers that the main purpose of the review is to help the author to do better next time. 

5. All this is volunteer work. We should be, generally, grateful to reviewers (but in the same time grateful to the contributors, too). 

best,

dj

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl> wrote:
What kind of ridiculous process is this? This is all I got:

===============

----------------------- REVIEW 1 ---------------------
PAPER: 194
TITLE: GLAM+Wikidata
AUTHORS: Sandra Fauconnier and Maarten Dammers

OVERALL EVALUATION: 8 (Very good)

----------- REVIEW -----------
8


----------------------- REVIEW 2 ---------------------
PAPER: 194
TITLE: GLAM+Wikidata
AUTHORS: Sandra Fauconnier and Maarten Dammers

OVERALL EVALUATION: 6 (Rather interesting)

----------- REVIEW -----------
6

==============

So only two people reviewed this? Who are these people? Why is this secret? Last year I had 5 people reviewing my submission [1].

Maarten

[1] https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission_review/5

Op 3-2-2016 om 23:15 schreef Andy Mabbett:

I've just received feedback on one of my pitches saying, in part:

"Bad boy Andy! This is supposed to be an anonymous review process, so starting your abstract with your own name, is not entirely fair."

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