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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
"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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Aaron Halfaker
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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.
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