Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for the December 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors.
Please take a look at:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201512 and add your name next
to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Wednesday
December 30 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual,
short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
Accidental Technologist: How Can Libraries Improve Wikipedia?
Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits
Conflict and Computation on Wikipedia: a Finite-State Machine Analysis of Editor
Interactions
Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia
Extracting Semantics from Unconstrained Navigation on Wikipedia
Information-seeking behaviour for epilepsy: an infodemiological study of searches for
Wikipedia articles
Integrated Parallel Sentence and Fragment Extraction from Comparable Corpora: A Case Study
on Chinese--Japanese Wikipedia
Les discussions Wikipedia : un corpus pour caractériser le genre "(wiki)
discussion"
Mapping bilateral information interests using the activity of Wikipedia editors
Microtext Normalization using Probably-. Phonetically-Similar Word Discovery
Mining Wikipedia to Rank Rock Guitarist
Only 2-4% of UK 12-15 year olds use Wikipedia as first stop for information
Open Collaboration Systems Research Workshop 2015 Report
Teachers' use of Wikipedia with their Students
The implications of Wikipedia for contemporary science education: Using Social Network
Analysis Techniques for Automatic Organisation of Knowledge
Understanding the Role of Participative Web within Collaborative Culture: The Case of
Wikipedia
Untangling Performance from Success
Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and
beyond
Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities
Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data
Wikipedia: The difference between information acquisition and learning knowledge
Wikis and Collaborative Systems for Large Formal Mathematics
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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