PS: Note that publication of the newsletter's December issue had to be postponed by one week to Wednesday January 6 or a bit later. (It's tied to the Signpost's publication schedule, whose December 23 issue was skipped with the December 30 issue going out ahead of time instead, too early for the research newsletter.)
We could still use reviewers for this issue - e.g I would love it if someone could provide an informed view of the "Conflict and Computation on Wikipedia" paper (which intriguingly "suggests that policy-makers may be limited in their ability to manage conflict, and that bad actors and exogenous shocks are less effective in causing conflict than is generally believed"). In any case, apologies to our readers for the delay.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 2:12 AM, masssly@ymail.com wrote:
Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for the December 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201512 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Wednesday December 30 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
Accidental Technologist: How Can Libraries Improve Wikipedia? Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits Conflict and Computation on Wikipedia: a Finite-State Machine Analysis of Editor Interactions Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia Extracting Semantics from Unconstrained Navigation on Wikipedia Information-seeking behaviour for epilepsy: an infodemiological study of searches for Wikipedia articles Integrated Parallel Sentence and Fragment Extraction from Comparable Corpora: A Case Study on Chinese--Japanese Wikipedia Les discussions Wikipedia : un corpus pour caractériser le genre "(wiki) discussion" Mapping bilateral information interests using the activity of Wikipedia editors Microtext Normalization using Probably-. Phonetically-Similar Word Discovery Mining Wikipedia to Rank Rock Guitarist Only 2-4% of UK 12-15 year olds use Wikipedia as first stop for information Open Collaboration Systems Research Workshop 2015 Report Teachers' use of Wikipedia with their Students The implications of Wikipedia for contemporary science education: Using Social Network Analysis Techniques for Automatic Organisation of Knowledge Understanding the Role of Participative Web within Collaborative Culture: The Case of Wikipedia Untangling Performance from Success Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data Wikipedia: The difference between information acquisition and learning knowledge Wikis and Collaborative Systems for Large Formal Mathematics
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli