The August 2015 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

In this issue:

1 OpenSym 2015

1.1 "Tool-Mediated Coordination of Virtual Teams"

2 Measuring Wiki Quality with PageRank

3 "Automated News Suggestions for Populating Wikipedia entity Pages"

4 "Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science"

5 Early warning system identifies likely vandals based on their editing behavior

6 "DBpedia Commons: Structured Multimedia Metadata from the Wikimedia Commons"

7 Briefly

7.1 Wikipedia in education as an acculturation process

*** 7 publications and overview report of OpenSym 2015 were covered in this issue ***

Thanks to Morten Warncke-Wang, Brian Keegan, Piotr Konieczny, Andrew Gray, Srijan Kumar, and Guillaume Paumier for contributing.

Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli

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