We’re preparing for the August 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201508 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. We encourage reviews of individual papers/posters from the just ended OpenSym 2015 conference. Our target publication date is Wednesday August 26 UTC. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.

• An Analysis of the Application of Wikipedia Corpus on the Lexical Learning in the Second Language Acquisition
• Cultural Anthropology through the Lens of Wikipedia: Historical Leader Networks, Gender Bias, and News-based Sentiment
• Wikipedia in Education: Acculturation and learning in virtual communities
• Exploiting Wikipedia for Information Retrieval Tasks
• Analysing Wiki Quality using Probabilistic Model Checking
• An Exploratory Study of Free / Libre / Open Source Software Organizations
• WikiSERM: Wikipedia Vandalism Detection Through Sequential Event Risk Measure
• Enabling Complex Wikipedia Queries - Technical Report
• Policies For The Production Of Contents In The Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
• Validity Claims Of Information In Face Of Authority Of The Argumention Wikipedia
• What Works Well With Wikidata?
• Management and the Future of Open Collaboration
• GLAWI, a free XML-encoded Machine-Readable Dictionary built from the French Wiktionary
• DBpedia Commons: Structured Multimedia Metadata from the Wikimedia Commons
• Automatically Expanding the Synonym Set of SNOMED CT using Wikipedia
• Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale
• Automated News Suggestions for Populating Wikipedia Entity Pages
• A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
• Networked Knowledge: Approaches to Analyzing Dynamic Networks of Knowledge in Wikis for Mass Collaboration
• IWNLP: Inverse Wiktionary for Natural Language
• Detecting Vandalism on Wikipedia across Multiple Languages

Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli