Well I think that double blind peer review hardly make sense here, from the
reviewer POV, as we are in fact small community and it is  easy to guess
who was a submiter in most cases. For example - if there is a submission
about project X in country Y, which was funded by WMF grant - it is very
easy to find out who was grantee and it is rather obvious that that person
is a submitter :-)

Also  judging from the several reviewers comments which I saw already -
they did not follow the very vague criteria which was posted here:

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Critical_issues_presentations#Evaluation

Normally - at least in Academia - reviewers are forced directly (by the
review form) to address their opinion in relation to the criteria. The
criteria were:

"

   1. problems and possible solutions in a specific field
   2. proposals for others to replicate
   3. issues (positive or negative) which have emerged from projects
   4. issues you want to raise which you feel have not been discussed yet
   5. issues which are at the centre of an online debate that you would
   like to address offline

"

1-4 are IMHO relatively easy to evaluate - I would expect from the reviews
to answer yes or no to them. 5 is a bit tricky as it depends strongly of
what the reviewer think is "at the centre"  - but I would expect that they
at least explain in few words here what they think is "at the centre" or
not :-)


2016-02-04 0:22 GMT+01:00 Dariusz Jemielniak <[email protected]>:

> 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 <[email protected]>
> 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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> __________________________
> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
> kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
> i grupy badawczej NeRDS
> Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
> http://n <http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl/>wrds.kozminski.edu.pl
>
> członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
> członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW
>
> 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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