We are glad to announce our invited speaker lineup and 19 papers accepted at the wiki research workshop we will be hosting on May 17, 2016 at the 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '16) in Cologne, Germany. If you're attending the conference and interested in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia research, please consider registering for the workshop. This is the second part of a workshop previously hosted at WWW '16 in Montréal, Canada, in April. For more information, you can visit the workshop's website or follow us on Twitter (@wikiworkshop16).

Invited speakers

  • Ofer Arazy (University of Haifa) Emergent Work in Wikipedia
  • Jürgen Pfeffer (TU Munich) Applying Social Network Analysis Metrics to Large-Scale Hyperlinked Data 
  • Martin Potthast (Universität Weimar) Wikipedia Text Mining: Uncovering Quality and Reuse
  • Fabian Suchanek (Télécom ParisTech) A Hitchhiker's Guide to Ontology
  • Claudia Wagner (GESIS) Gender Inequalities in Wikipedia

Accepted papers

  • Yashaswi Pochampally, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Navya Yarrabelly
    Semi-Supervised Automatic Generation of Wikipedia Articles for Named Entities 
  • Joan Guisado-Gámez, Josep Lluís Larriba-Pey, David Tamayo and Jordi Urmeneta
    ENRICH: A Query Expansion Service Powered by Wikipedia Graph Structure
  • Ioannis Protonotarios, Vasiliki Sarimpei and Jahna Otterbacher
    Similar Gaps, Different Origins? Women Readers and Editors at Greek Wikipedia
  • Sven Heimbuch and Daniel Bodemer
    Wiki Editors' Acceptance of Additional Guidance on Talk Pages
  • Yerali Gandica, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti
    What Can Wikipedia Tell Us about the Global or Local Character of Burstiness?
  • Andreas Spitz, Vaibhav Dixit, Ludwig Richter, Michael Gertz and Johanna Geiß
    State of the Union: A Data Consumer's Perspective on Wikidata and Its Properties for the Classification and Resolution of Entities
  • Finn Årup Nielsen
    Literature, Geolocation and Wikidata
  • Ana Freire, Matteo Manca, Diego Saez-Trumper, David Laniado, Ilaria Bordino, Francesco Gullo and Andreas Kaltenbrunner
    Graph-Based Breaking News Detection on Wikipedia
  • Alexander Dallmann, Thomas Niebler, Florian Lemmerich and Andreas Hotho
    Extracting Semantics from Random Walks on Wikipedia: Comparing Learning and Counting Methods
  • Arpit Merchant, Darshit Shah and Navjyoti Singh
    In Wikipedia We Trust: A Case Study
  • Thomas Palomares, Youssef Ahres, Juhana Kangaspunta and Christopher Ré
    Wikipedia Knowledge Graph with DeepDive
  • Lu Xiao
    Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians' Rationales
  • Sooyoung Kim and Alice Oh
    Topical Interest and Degree of Involvement of Bilingual Editors in Wikipedia
  • Lambert Heller, Ina Blümel, Simone Cartellieri and Christian Wartena
    A Proposed Solution for Discovery of Reusable Technology Pictures Using Textmining of Surrounding Article Text, Based on the Infrastructure of Wikidata, Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons
  • Behzad Tabibian, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Isabel Valera, Le Song, Bernhard Schölkopf and Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
    On the Reliability of Information and Trustworthiness of Web Sources in Wikipedia
  • Ruth Garcia Gavilanes, Milena Tsvetkova and Taha Yasseri
    Collective Remembering in Wikipedia: The Case of Aircraft Crashes
  • Elena Labzina
    The Political Salience Dynamics and Users' Interaction Using the Example of Wikipedia within the Authoritarian Regime Context
  • Fabian Flöck and Maribel Acosta
    WikiLayers – A Visual Platform for Analyzing Content Evolution and Editing Dynamics in Wikipedia
  • Olga Zagarova, Tatiana Sennikova, Claudia Wagner and Fabian Flöck
    Cultural Relation Mining on Wikipedia: Beyond Culinary Analysis

 Organizers

Bob West, Stanford University & Wikimedia Foundation

Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation

Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation

Jure Leskovec, Stanford University