Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the January 2019 research newsletter and looking for contributors.
Please take a look at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201901 and add your name next to
any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on January 31
UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and
one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
• "Anonymous calling": The WikiScanner scandals and anonymity on the Japanese
Wikipedia
• A Historical Perspective on Information Systems: A Tool and Methodology for Studying the
Evolution of Social Representations on Wikipedia
• An inferior source? Quantitatively analyzing the production and revision of five
technology-enhanced learning-related terms on Wikipedia
• Asthma Information Seeking via Wikipedia Between 2015 and 2018: Implications for
Awareness Promotion
• Can deep learning techniques improve classification performance of vandalism detection
in Wikipedia?
• Feature Analysis for Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles through Supervised
Classification
• Following the Fukushima Disaster on (and against) Wikipedia: A Methodological Note about
STS Research and Online Platforms
• Hacking History: Redressing Gender Inequities on Wikipedia Through an Editathon
• Improving New Editor Retention on Wikipedia
• Let’s Talk About Refugees: Network Effects Drive Contributor Attention to Wikipedia
Articles About Migration-Related Topics
• Pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing
Wikipedia articles
• The digital knowledge economy index: mapping content production
• Towards Compiling Textbooks from Wikipedia
• Trolls, bans and reverts: simulating Wikipedia
• Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers
• Wizard of Wikipedia: Knowledge-Powered Conversational agents
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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