actually, with our community, it is not. What other journals die for, we have sort of provided. This is why a Wiki journal may have a better chance than others, but only if it is prepared with the academic career paths and full proper code of conduct nuances considered (double-blind scholarly peer review, proper editorial board, PDFs with page numbers, etc.).
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ed H. Chi chi@acm.org wrote:
There has been a lot of talk about how to start a journal. The real issue in starting a journal is not the editorial board, or the way it is published, or whether it will gather the citation impact. The real issue is READERSHIP.
If you can get people to read the journal, then it will have editors wanting to serve the journal, and it will gather citation impact.
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.
Ed H. Chi, Staff Research Scientist, Google CHI2012 Technical Program co-chair
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