Hi everybody,


We’re preparing for the June 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201606 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Saturday July 2 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.


Highlights from this month:

 

·       This issue won’t be published before Saturday (May 28), possibly a bit later

·       Case study in political user behavior on Wikipedia

·       Combining syntactic patterns and Wikipedia's hierarchy of hyperlinks to extract meronym relations

·       Crowdsourcing not all sourced by the crowd: An observation on the behavior of Wikipedia participants

·       Customer relationship management practices in the online community – Wikipedia

·       Determining the influence of reddit posts on wikipedia pageviews

·       Digital History Meets Wikipedia: Analyzing Historical Persons in Wikipedia

·       Enriching Wikidata with Frame Semantics

·       Manipulating Google’s Knowledge Graph Box to Counter Biased Information Processing During an Online Search on Vaccination: Application of a Technological Debiasing Strategy

·       Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles Without Feature Engineering

·       The double power law in human collaboration behavior: The case of Wikipedia

·       Visualizations of relationships among knowledge? Try WikiSeeker!

·       Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models


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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