I agree with Marc. I edited the brochure for Wikimania 2011 and I spent a lot of time making the abstracts *shorter*. Unless somebody plans to publish a Wikimania proceedings book of at least a 100 pages, the abstracts should be *no more* than 200 words or so. When it is *no less* than 300 words, the whole presentation can be replaced by it.
Is this really a hard requirement? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-03-25 3:59 GMT+02:00 Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org>: > On 03/23/2014 05:06 PM, James Forrester wrote: > > Note that a complete submission is required, including an abstract of 300 > > words or more that explains to the Programme Committee why you think your > > proposal should be accepted over others. > > I must admit that requirement gives me pause, James. I've yet to meet a > conference where they didn't place a strict /maximum/ length to > abstracts, usually at some point below 250 words(!) > > Honestly, if you need 300 words to summarize a presentation that is > meant to occupy less than 30 minutes, your doing either abstract or > presentation wrong! :-) > > -- Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
