Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the August 2020 research newsletter and looking for
contributors. Please take a look at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202008 and add your name next to any
paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication time is 30
August 15:59 UTC. If you can't make this deadline but would like to cover a
particular paper in the subsequent issue, leave a note next to the paper's
entry below. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most
welcome.
*Highlights from this month:*
- Broadening African Self-Representation on Wikipedia: A Field Experiment
- Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective
- Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata
- Impact of individual actions on the collective response of social
systems
- Multiple Texts as a Limiting Factor in Online Learning: Quantifying
(Dis-)similarities of Knowledge Networks across Languages
- Notable Site Recognition using Deep Learning on Mobile and
Crowd-sourced Imagery
- Protecting the Web from Misinformation
- Ripples on the web: Spreading lake information via Wikipedia
- Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia Education
Program
- Wikipedia, COVID-19, and readers' interests across languages
- Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize:
Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism
- WiTPy: A Toolkit to Parse and Analyse Wikipedia Talk Pages
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
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