Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for
the July 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a
look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201507
and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. We encourage coverage of Submissions from the just ended Wikimania 2015 conference in Mexico City. As
usual,
short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this
month:
- Models for Understanding Collective Intelligence on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia vs. peer-reviewed medical literature for information about the 10 most costly medication conditions
- Wikipedia, democracy and local elections in São Paulo: a study of the developing of articles edited during the election campaign in 2012
- Detection of text-based advertising and promotion in Wikipedia by deep learning method
- Extracting and Visualizing Biographical Events from Wikipedia
- Detecting spatial patterns of natural hazards from the Wikipedia knowledge base
- Generating Quizzes for History Learning Based on Wikipedia Articles
- The influence of network structures of Wikipedia discussion pages on the efficiency of WikiProjects
- The Rise and Fall of an Online Project. Is Bureaucracy Killing Efficiency in Open Knowledge Production?
- Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
- VEWS: A Wikipedia Vandal Early Warning System
- An agent-based model of edit wars in Wikipedia: How and when is consensus reached
- Google Trends and Wikipedia Page Views
- Hot news detection using Wikipedia
- Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
- #Wikipedia on Twitter: Analyzing Tweets about Wikipedia
- Towards Vandalism Detection in Knowledge Bases: Corpus Construction and Analysis
- Wikidata World Maps June 2015
If you have any
question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli