Based on my past experiences with WP:ACST, whenever I thought it reached a plateau it was simply because the databases I was checking did not have all the latest papers.
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On 11/8/2012 11:13 AM, emijrp wrote:
Just adding more stuff to this discussion.
The publication rate peaked in 2010-2011 (see the linked bar graph; 2012 is not properly represented). The list of publications is not complete yet, but it shows clearly a pattern. Perhaps wiki studies reached a plateau?
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications
2012/11/8 Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com mailto:aaron.halfaker@gmail.com>
"Highly rated" is an interesting property. One of the ways that a publication venue becomes highly rated is by being highly restrictive. In fact, the primary measurement of the quality of a publication venue is the acceptance rate of that conference. WikiSym is not considered highly rated because a high proportion of the submitted papers are accepted. Would a wiki journal be more restrictive in order to gain a "highly rated" status? I think it's interesting to ask why WikiSym needs improvement and why attendance has been falling. If a WikiSym is a wiki conference that is struggling to maintain participation, how might a wiki journal surmount such trouble? Assuming that the answer to my question above is "yes, the wiki-journal would be more restrictive", how would such a journal gather more submissions than an established conference like WikiSym -- enough to both produce regular issues and maintain a high rejection rate? -Aaron On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@gmail.com <mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com <mailto:aaron.halfaker@gmail.com>> wrote: > To state it plainly, why do we need yet another publication venue specific to wiki software? I think people want a "highly rated" publication venue. Also, «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.» But what you're saying suggests that maybe work should be done to improve existing venues rather than creating a new one. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l-- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada http://LibreFind.org - The wiki search engine
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