Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for the February 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors.
Please take a look at:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201602 and add your name next
to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is likely Friday
February 26 UTC or later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most
welcome.
Highlights from this month:
Controversy goes online: Schizophrenia genetics on Wikipedia
Dynamics of Disagreement: Large-Scale Temporal Network Analysis Reveals Negative
Interactions in Online Collaboration
Employing Wikipedia for good not evil: innovative approaches to collaborative writing
assessment
From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration. ACM (2016)
Gender Gap in Wikipedia Editing: A Cross Language Comparison
Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation
Monetary Materialities of Peer-Produced Knowledge: The Case of Wikipedia and Its Tensions
with Paid Labour
Request for Adminship (RFA) within Wikipedia: How Do User Contributions Instill Community
Trust?
Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia. WWW '16
Visualizing a Modern History of Music Using Wikipedia Data
Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets
WIKIPEDIA vs. ACADEMIA An investigation into the role of the Internet in education, with a
special focus on collaborative editing tools such as Wikipedia
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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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter