Just to say that I agree with Dariusz's assessment of how academic
reviewing is done. That doesn't address the tension of whether Wikimania is
an academic conference or not, though - a question that has existed since
early days. There's good arguments both ways, and each Wikimania team has
approached this question differently.* It should, however, be made clear to
submitters what is happening.
Phoebe
* many teams, and participants, have wanted a more academic conference for
various reasons. Many participants find the socializing and practical
knowledge sharing the most useful last. In recent years, we've tried to
balance this by doing both. If I ever run Wikimania again, I think I'd try
having *no* formal talks: only discussions and lightning talks.
On Feb 3, 2016 6:23 PM, "Dariusz Jemielniak" <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote:
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(a)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."
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego
autorstwa
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
Recenzje
Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Pacific Standard:
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/
Motherboard:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia
The Wikipedian:
http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge
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