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 [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter