(to correct a mistake in my previous mail, we’re actually preparing for the September issue of the newsletter). Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201809%C2%A0and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is September 30 but text should be in by September 28. Thanks -Masssly
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai masssly@ymail.com wrote:
Hi everyone, We’re preparing for the August 2018 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia. org/p/WRN201808 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on September 28 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month: - "Sharing Small Pieces of the World": Increasing and Broadening Participation in Wikimedia Commons - A Wikia Census: Motives, Tools and and Insights - Characterizing the Triggering Phenomenon in Wikipedia - Comparative Analysis of the Informativeness and Encyclopedic Style of the Popular Web Information Sources - Do less active participants make active participants more active? An examination of Chinese Wikipedia
- Do We All Talk Before We Type?: Understanding Collaboration in Wikipedia Language Editions
- Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding
- Neural Article Pair Modeling for Wikipedia Sub-article Matching
- The Battle for Wikipedia: The New Age of ‘Lost Victories’?
- The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic
- University Students in the Educational Field and Wikipedia Vandalism
- What is the Commons Worth? Estimating the Value of Wikimedia Imagery by Observing Downstream Use
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter