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webconf-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at the Web Conference (WWW) at all, which of the ten research tracks should review it, whether the short-paper or Web4Good lane fits better, and when the work should instead route to WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, KDD, ICWSM, WebSci, or an ML flagship.
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# Web Conference Topic Selection
Two decisions, in order: **is the work web-native**, and **which track's reviewer
pool should judge it**. Both are made by the authors, both are effectively
irreversible at the deadline, and the second is as consequential as the first
because the venue reviews inside tracks.
## Decision 1: the web-nativeness test
Ask: *if the Web's specific structure disappeared, would this contribution still
make sense?* Web-native work depends on at least one of: open hypertext and link
structure; platform mechanics and incentives; live, adversarial, user-generated
content; web-scale heterogeneity; or the socio-technical coupling of users and
algorithms. A generic model that merely *evaluates* on a web dataset fails the