Forwarding from Research-l since some of these look relevant for EE purposes and possibly
informing IEG project selection. Some of these papers might interest the Analytics crowd
as well. Sumanah, the paper here about barnstars might be relevant to your question about
Wikilove.
Cheers,
Pine
From: dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:53:09 -0700
Subject: Papers open for review: Wikimedia Research Newsletter, July 2013
To: tbayer(a)wikimedia.org
Hi everybody,
hope you're having a great summer. With WikiSym coming up in a few days we have a
great list of papers and publications to cover in the next issue of the Wikimedia Research
Newsletter, which is due for publication this coming Wednesday 7/31.
Have you read any of these papers? Would you like to post a short review? If you wish to
contribute, please chime in on the pad and add your name next to the item you wish to
cover (many thanks to those of you who've already started!)
http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/WRN201307
If you're attending WikiSym/Wikimania, we look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong
Dario and Tilman
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• Analyzing Multi-Dimensional Networks within MediaWikis
http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym13-importer.pdf
• A History of Newswork on Wikipedia
http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym13-newswork.pdf
• Methods for Exploring and Mining Tables on Wikipedia
http://poloclub.gatech.edu/idea2013/papers/p19-bhagavatula.pdf
Online demo:
http://downey-n1.cs.northwestern.edu/public/
• A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Barnstars on Wikipedia Editing
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~kwanhui/2013-WikiSym-wikiEditor.pdf
• The Most Unique Wikipedias According To Wikidata
http://notconfusing.com/?p=255
• Damage detection and mitigation in open collaboration applications
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~westand/docs/dissertation.pdf
• Analyzing and Predicting Quality Flaws in User-generated Content: The Case of
Wikipedia
http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/papers/anderka_2013.pdf
• Impact of Wikipedia on citation trends
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236001163_Impact_of_Wikipedia_on_ci…
• Multi-step Classification Approaches to Cumulative Citation Recommendation:
Recommending news sources to Wikipedia editors.
http://krisztianbalog.com/files/oair2013-kba.pdf
• How should one quote Wikipedians in research papers - anonymously or by name?
http://ethnographymatters.net/2013/06/27/onymous-pseudonymous-neither-or-bo…
• Work-to-Rule: The Emergence of Algorithmic Governance in Wikipedia
http://www.iisi.de/fileadmin/IISI/upload/C_T/2013/ct2013_proceedings_S3-1_M…
• Beyond the encyclopedia: Collective memories in Wikipedia
http://mss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/20/1750698013490590.abstract (paywalled)
• Investigating Deletion in Wikipedia
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5267
• How much Wikipedia could tell us about elections
http://tahayasseri.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/how-much-wikipedia-could-tell-u…
• New edit and revert stats
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2013/07/new-edit-and-revert-stats/
• Wiki Loves Monuments: retention data per country
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2013/06/wiki-loves-monuments-2010-2012-retention…
• Wikipedia as a Tool for Active Learning. Experience Gained within the Framework of the
Wikifabricación Project
http://www.scientific.net/MSF.759.73 (paywalled)
• Becoming Digital Citizens: Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Classroom
http://www.isteconference.org/uploads/ISTE2013/HANDOUTS/KEY_80641330/Becomi…
• The NGS WikiBook: a dynamic collaborative online training effort with long-term
sustainability
http://intl-bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/21/bib.bbt045.full
• Does the Acquaintance Relation Close up the Administrator Community of Polish
Wikipedia? Analysing Polish Wikipedia Administrator Community with use of Multidimensional
Behavioural Social Network
http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=colla_2013_2_…
• Broken rituals: On the disintegrative power of conflictive media events on English
Wikipedia
http://bib.irb.hr/prikazi-rad?lang=en&rad=636893
• Using the Internet for Gerontology Education: Assessing and Improving Wikipedia
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03601277.2012.734266 (paywalled)
• Mass collaboration or mass amateurism
http://massamateurism.blogspot.com/p/synopsis.html#_ftnref2
dissertation (Universidade de Évora, Portugal), experts blindly compared 245 article
pairs from Wikipedia and Britannica
• Wikipedia and Encyclopaedism: A Genre Analysis of Epistemological Values
https://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/24160
• Peer-production online communities infrastructures
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00833476
• Multilingual Knowledge in Aligned Wiktionary and OmegaWiki for Translation
Applications
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Group_UKP/publikatione…
• FrameNet on the Way to Babel: Creating a Bilingual FrameNet Using Wiktionary as
Interlingual Connection
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Group_UKP/publikatione…
• Online Communities of Practice: A Brief Look at Wikipedia
http://rwt4.com/e-portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rturner_Assignment04… (short
student paper, really devoid of anything interesting)
• Collaborative Wikipedia Projects in the Virtual Classroom
https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/nse/abstracts/42/1/85?access=0…
(paywalled)
• The Efficiency of Wikipedia’s Evolution
http://economics.stanford.edu/files/Theses/EmilieJacksonHonorsThesis_May201…
(dissertation)
• Wikipedia as Cultural Reference
http://xplqa30.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6517091&…
• Assigning Wikipedia editing: Triangulation toward understanding university student
engagement
http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4340
• WHAD: Wikipedia historical attributes data
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-013-9232-5 (paywalled)
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/05/distributing-edit-history-of-wik…
• Attributing Authorship of Revisioned Content
https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/research/technical-reports/ucsc-soe-12-21/download
• Keeping wiki content current via news sources
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2451194