webconf-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising a Web Conference (WWW) paper's prose — building the web-native framing that answers "why is this a WWW paper" on page one, writing for a mixed computing/social-science/economics readership, compressing into 8 self-contained pages, and handling scale numbers and platform names with precision.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill webconf-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Web Conference Writing Style A Web Conference paper is judged by readers who may sit in different disciplines within the same track panel, under a rule that the first 8 pages must carry the entire case. The house style that survives this: **lead with the web-native mechanism, quantify the scale early, and write constructs so an adjacent-field expert can check them.** ## The page-one obligation: web-nativeness The venue's most predictable review sentence is a version of "unclear why this is a WWW paper." Inoculate on page one by naming the property of the Web your contribution depends on, as a mechanism rather than a backdrop: | Weak (backdrop) | Strong (mechanism) | |---|---| | "We evaluate on web data" | "Anchor text distributes labels across sites, which our method exploits" | | "Recommendation is important online" | "Feedback loops between ranking and clicks bias naive estimators; we correct for the loop" | | "Misinformation spreads on platforms" | "Reposting graphs give exposure timestamps that identify the spread model" | | "We test at web scale" | "At 10^9 edges, quadratic attention is infeasible; our sketch keeps error < ε at linear cost" | If no such sentence can be writt
- The page-one obligation: web-nativeness
- Register for a mixed panel
- An introduction shape that fits this venue
- Compression into 8 self-contained pages
- Sentence-level habits reviewers reward
- Titles and abstracts in this venue's register
- Self-edit gate before submission
- Output format
What does the webconf-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or revising a Web Conference (WWW) paper's prose — building the web-native framing that answers "why is this a WWW paper" on page one, writing for a mixed computing/social-science/economics readership, compressing into 8 self-contained pages, and handling scale numbers and platform names with precision.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill webconf-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.