That seems a sensible system, I can see how a 6 and a 7 were enough to reject 
one of my proposals, though I'd have appreciated a bit more feedback as to why.

But how strong did the divergence have to be if 5 and 8 didn't count as a 
"strong divergence"?

WereSpielChequers




> On 4 Feb 2016, at 11:55, Sebastian Wallroth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> this is what actually happend. Please refer to
> https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Critical_issues_presentations#Evaluation
> 
> 
> : In order to achieve the greatest possible neutrality, the submissions
> will
> : be evaluated online using a *double-blind peer-review process*. This
> : means that two evaluators will review the submission without knowing
> : the name of its author. *If there are strong divergences among the two
> : evaluations, at least one other review will be made.*
> 
> Kind regards,
> Sebastian
> 
>> Am 04.02.2016 um 11:31 schrieb Tomasz Ganicz:
>> Also - normally in Academia - if there are two strongly opposite
>> reviews (one very positive, one very negative) a typical procedure is
>> to send the submission to the third one.
>> 
>> 2016-02-04 10:54 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> 
>>    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]
>>    <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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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>>        Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford
>>        University Press) mojego
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>>        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
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>> http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge
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