Hi everybody,


We’re preparing for the May 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201605 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. This issue won’t be published before Saturday (May 28), possibly a bit later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.


Highlights from this month:

 

·       Accepted papers @ ICWSM 2016

·       “En Wikipedia no se escribe jugando”: Identidad y motivación en 10 wikipedistas regiomontanos

·       A Multilingual Approach to Discover Cross-Language Links in Wikipedia

·       Analysing temporal evolution of interlingual wikipedia article pairs

·       Beyond the Book: Linking Books to Wikipedia

·       Cell (Biology)-Wikipedia Learning Performance In Relation To Cognitive Styles, Learning Styles, And Science Ability Of Students: A Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis

·       Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia's First Link Network

·       Derivation of “is a” taxonomy from Wikipedia Category Graph

·       Does Wikipedia matter? The effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices

·       Enabling Fine-grained RDF Data Completeness Assessment

·       Evaluating Link-based Recommendations for Wikipedia

·       Extracting Representative Phrases from Wikipedia Article Sections

·       Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in higher education

·       Finding Member Articles for Wikipedia Lists

·       Fostering Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia

·       How the structure of Wikipedia articles influences user navigation

·       Linked Data Quality of DBpedia, Freebase,OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO

·       Profiling vandalism in Wikipedia: A Schauerian approach to justification

·       Troublesome tools: How can Wikipedia editing enhance student teachers’ digital skills?

·       Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles

·       Validação discursiva da informação

·       What Makes Wikipedia's Volunteer Editors Volunteer?

·       Where do DOI clicks come from?

·       Wiki Editors’ Acceptance of AdditionalGuidance on Talk Pages — Extended Abstract

·       Wikidata through the Eyes of Dbpedia

·       Wikipedia and conceptions of knowledge in encyclopaedism

·       Wikipedia and the ecosystem of knowledge

·       Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

·       Wikipedia as a Tool for 21st Century Teaching and Learning

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

·       Wikipedia: Medium and Model of Collaborative Public Diplomacy


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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