I agree with Marc.
I edited the brochure for Wikimania 2011 and I spent a lot of time making the abstracts *shorter*. Unless somebody plans to publish a Wikimania proceedings book of at least a 100 pages, the abstracts should be *no more* than 200 words or so. When it is *no less* than 300 words, the whole presentation can be replaced by it.
Is this really a hard requirement?
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2014-03-25 3:59 GMT+02:00 Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org:
On 03/23/2014 05:06 PM, James Forrester wrote:
Note that a complete submission is required, including an abstract of 300 words or more that explains to the Programme Committee why you think your proposal should be accepted over others.
I must admit that requirement gives me pause, James. I've yet to meet a conference where they didn't place a strict /maximum/ length to abstracts, usually at some point below 250 words(!)
Honestly, if you need 300 words to summarize a presentation that is meant to occupy less than 30 minutes, your doing either abstract or presentation wrong! :-)
-- Marc
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