[EE] FW: Papers open for review: Wikimedia Research Newsletter, July 2013

From: dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:53:09 -0700 Subject: Papers open for review: Wikimedia Research Newsletter, July 2013 To: tbayer(a)wikimedia.org Hi everybody, hope you're having a great summer. With WikiSym coming up in a few days we have a great list of papers and publications to cover in the next issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter, which is due for publication this coming Wednesday 7/31. Have you read any of these papers? Would you like to post a short review? If you wish to contribute, please chime in on the pad and add your name next to the item you wish to cover (many thanks to those of you who've already started!) http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/WRN201307 If you're attending WikiSym/Wikimania, we look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong Dario and Tilman ------------ • Analyzing Multi-Dimensional Networks within MediaWikis http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym13-importer.pdf • A History of Newswork on Wikipedia http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym13-newswork.pdf • Methods for Exploring and Mining Tables on Wikipedia http://poloclub.gatech.edu/idea2013/papers/p19-bhagavatula.pdf Online demo: http://downey-n1.cs.northwestern.edu/public/ • A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Barnstars on Wikipedia Editing http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~kwanhui/2013-WikiSym-wikiEditor.pdf • The Most Unique Wikipedias According To Wikidata http://notconfusing.com/?p=255 • Damage detection and mitigation in open collaboration applications http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~westand/docs/dissertation.pdf • Analyzing and Predicting Quality Flaws in User-generated Content: The Case of Wikipedia http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/papers/anderka_2013.pdf • Impact of Wikipedia on citation trends http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236001163_Impact_of_Wikipedia_on_ci… • Multi-step Classification Approaches to Cumulative Citation Recommendation: Recommending news sources to Wikipedia editors. http://krisztianbalog.com/files/oair2013-kba.pdf • How should one quote Wikipedians in research papers - anonymously or by name? http://ethnographymatters.net/2013/06/27/onymous-pseudonymous-neither-or-bo… • Work-to-Rule: The Emergence of Algorithmic Governance in Wikipedia http://www.iisi.de/fileadmin/IISI/upload/C_T/2013/ct2013_proceedings_S3-1_M… • Beyond the encyclopedia: Collective memories in Wikipedia http://mss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/20/1750698013490590.abstract (paywalled) • Investigating Deletion in Wikipedia http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5267 • How much Wikipedia could tell us about elections http://tahayasseri.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/how-much-wikipedia-could-tell-u… • New edit and revert stats http://infodisiac.com/blog/2013/07/new-edit-and-revert-stats/ • Wiki Loves Monuments: retention data per country http://infodisiac.com/blog/2013/06/wiki-loves-monuments-2010-2012-retention… • Wikipedia as a Tool for Active Learning. Experience Gained within the Framework of the Wikifabricación Project http://www.scientific.net/MSF.759.73 (paywalled) • Becoming Digital Citizens: Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Classroom http://www.isteconference.org/uploads/ISTE2013/HANDOUTS/KEY_80641330/Becomi… • The NGS WikiBook: a dynamic collaborative online training effort with long-term sustainability http://intl-bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/21/bib.bbt045.full • Does the Acquaintance Relation Close up the Administrator Community of Polish Wikipedia? Analysing Polish Wikipedia Administrator Community with use of Multidimensional Behavioural Social Network http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=colla_2013_2_… • Broken rituals: On the disintegrative power of conflictive media events on English Wikipedia http://bib.irb.hr/prikazi-rad?lang=en&rad=636893 • Using the Internet for Gerontology Education: Assessing and Improving Wikipedia http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03601277.2012.734266 (paywalled) • Mass collaboration or mass amateurism http://massamateurism.blogspot.com/p/synopsis.html#_ftnref2 dissertation (Universidade de Évora, Portugal), experts blindly compared 245 article pairs from Wikipedia and Britannica • Wikipedia and Encyclopaedism: A Genre Analysis of Epistemological Values https://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/24160 • Peer-production online communities infrastructures http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00833476 • Multilingual Knowledge in Aligned Wiktionary and OmegaWiki for Translation Applications http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Group_UKP/publikatione… • FrameNet on the Way to Babel: Creating a Bilingual FrameNet Using Wiktionary as Interlingual Connection http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Group_UKP/publikatione… • Online Communities of Practice: A Brief Look at Wikipedia http://rwt4.com/e-portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rturner_Assignment04… (short student paper, really devoid of anything interesting) • Collaborative Wikipedia Projects in the Virtual Classroom https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/nse/abstracts/42/1/85?access=0… (paywalled) • The Efficiency of Wikipedia’s Evolution http://economics.stanford.edu/files/Theses/EmilieJacksonHonorsThesis_May201… (dissertation) • Wikipedia as Cultural Reference http://xplqa30.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6517091&… • Assigning Wikipedia editing: Triangulation toward understanding university student engagement http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4340 • WHAD: Wikipedia historical attributes data http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-013-9232-5 (paywalled) http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/05/distributing-edit-history-of-wik… • Attributing Authorship of Revisioned Content https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/research/technical-reports/ucsc-soe-12-21/download • Keeping wiki content current via news sources https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2451194