Talk:Submissions/A University Teacher's Experience with Writing Wikibooks

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presentation could recruit more editors to wikibooks. Geraldshields11 (talk) 19:18, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

submission withdrawn

Apparently, this submission has not been accepted (but I haven't been notified yet). In any case, after the reviewing process, I came to the conclusion that I don't want to submit anything to Wikimania; thus, I withdraw my submission. Here are some reasons:

  • The reviewers assign only an overall rating without providing any justification. Thus, it's completely unclear why some submissions are accepted and others are rejected. Authors receive no feedback.
  • Reviewers have to review far too many submissions; it is unlikely that they can provide quality reviews for such a large number of submissions.
  • Reviewers have to review far too diverse submissions: it is unlikely that they are all experts in all of the categories.
  • Some reviewers rate submissions even though there are clear conflicts of interest (according to academic standards).
  • Even a week after the notification date, the submission review form has not been completed, some rejected authors have not been informed, etc.

My conclusion is that I shouldn't submitted anything to Wikimania as long as it doesn't meet minimal standards of peer reviewing. --Martin Kraus (talk) 09:24, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]