Hi everybody,
we’re preparing for the May 2014 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please
take a look at:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201405 and add your name next to any
paper you are interested in covering. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are
most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
• Detecting epidemics using Wikipedia article views: A demonstration of feasibility with
language as location proxy
• Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders: A systematic review of scholarly research on
Wikipedia readers and readership
• "The sum of all human knowledge": a systematic review of scholarly research on
the content of Wikipedia
• Uneven Openness: Barriers to MENA Representation on Wikipedia
• Sex ratios in Wikidata
• Automatically Detecting Corresponding Edit-Turn-Pairs in Wikipedia
• A Novel Methodology Based on Formal Methods for Analysis and Verification of Wikis
• Okinawa in Japanese and English Wikipedia
• Bipartite Editing Prediction in Wikipedia
• Increasing the Discoverability of Digital Collections Using Wikipedia: The Pitt
Experience
• Playscript Classification and Automatic Wikipedia Play Articles Generation
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer
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