Hi everybody,
we’re preparing for the May 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please
take a look at:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201505 and add your name next to any
paper you are interested in covering. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are
most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
Predicting elections from online information flows: towards theoretically informed
models
Understanding Graph Structure of Wikipedia for Query Expansion
A New Epistemic Culture Wikipedia as an Arena for the Production of Knowledge in Late
Modernity
The EU Public Interest Clinic and Wikimedia Present: Extending Freedom of Panorama in
Europe
Utilizing the Wikidata System to Improve the Quality of Medical Content in Wikipedia in
Diverse Languages: A Pilot Study
Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles
Centre Stage: How Social Network Position Shapes Linguistic Coordination
Synthesizing knowledge from disagreement
Aligning Sentences from Standard Wikipedia to Simple Wikipedia
Debating reliable sources: writing the history of the Vietnam War on Wikipedia
Turning Introductory Comparative Politics and Elections Courses into Social Science
Research Communities Using Wikipedia: Improving Both Teaching and Research
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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