Hi everybody, We’re preparing for the August 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201508 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. We encourage reviews of individual papers/posters from the just ended OpenSym 2015 conference. Our target publication date is Wednesday August 26 UTC. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Highlights from this month: An Analysis of the Application of Wikipedia Corpus on the Lexical Learning in the Second Language Acquisition Cultural Anthropology through the Lens of Wikipedia: Historical Leader Networks, Gender Bias, and News-based Sentiment Wikipedia in Education: Acculturation and learning in virtual communities Exploiting Wikipedia for Information Retrieval Tasks Analysing Wiki Quality using Probabilistic Model Checking An Exploratory Study of Free / Libre / Open Source Software Organizations WikiSERM: Wikipedia Vandalism Detection Through Sequential Event Risk Measure Enabling Complex Wikipedia Queries - Technical Report Policies For The Production Of Contents In The Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Validity Claims Of Information In Face Of Authority Of The Argumention Wikipedia What Works Well With Wikidata? Management and the Future of Open Collaboration GLAWI, a free XML-encoded Machine-Readable Dictionary built from the French Wiktionary DBpedia Commons: Structured Multimedia Metadata from the Wikimedia Commons Automatically Expanding the Synonym Set of SNOMED CT using Wikipedia Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale Automated News Suggestions for Populating Wikipedia Entity Pages A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO Networked Knowledge: Approaches to Analyzing Dynamic Networks of Knowledge in Wikis for Mass Collaboration IWNLP: Inverse Wiktionary for Natural Language Detecting Vandalism on Wikipedia across Multiple Languages 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