"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?
Here's a quick point: attending a conference requires a greater
committment than sending a paper. I would not send submissions to
WikiSym unless I am really sure to have both time and money to invest
on the trip. By contrast, a journal only expects authors to deliver an
article. It does not matter where they are, and how they manage to get
their work done.
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