Working draft. The text and tools are still being checked, and corrections are welcome.

How to read these numbers

The reader counts what the printed programs list. It does not count who attended, and it cannot see changes made after the program was printed.

What is counted

  • A listing is one person in one role in one session.
  • People are names joined on an exact match. IWAC has had no reviewed merges, so one person printed with two spellings counts twice.
  • An institution is matched when the printed affiliation maps to a ROR record. The share outside the US uses only matched institutions.
  • A person page exists only for people listed at two or more conferences. The 2002 program does not count toward that, because it is an OCR'd scan.

Where the series break

  • 2002: OCR of a scanned program, low confidence
  • No program in the corpus in odd years before 2023 (the conference ran every two years)
  • 2020 conference held virtually in 2021

How each year was read

2002
Read from an OCR'd scan of the printed program, so names and institutions carry recognition errors. Treat every row as a draft.
2004
The Seventh National WAC Conference (Bloomington), which the Clearinghouse files under IWAC 2004.
2006
Read from the PDF program; paper titles are italic in the source and presenters follow their institution line.
2008
Read from the PDF program. Several multi-author entries print no institution.
2010
Read from the PDF program. The Clearinghouse's web list of presentations is incomplete, so it was not used.
2012
Read from the web program with the detailed schedule; abstracts are not shown here.
2014
The PDF prints chairs for only some sessions, and lists the presenters of a panel on one line.
2016
The program prints each name and institution without a separator, so the split between them is partly inferred and some institutions are wrong.
2018
The PDF prints chairs for only some sessions, and about sixteen session headings did not parse.
2020
Held virtually in August 2021 after a postponement. Read from the web program.
2023
Read from the PDF program; sessions with several papers list the presenters together.
2025
Read from the web program, which prints an area for each session.

Caveats

This is a draft built from the programs the WAC Clearinghouse hosts. Abstracts are in the source programs but are not shown here. Check any figure you plan to publish against the session pages.