The October 2019 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2019/October
In this issue:
1 Research presentations at Wikimania 20191.1 "All Talk: How Increasing
Interpersonal Communication on Wikis May Not Enhance Productivity"1.2 "Despite
the [Tor] ban: doing good work anonymously on Wikipedia"1.3 Discussion summarization
tool to help with Requests for Comments (RfCs) going stale1.4 "Hidden Gems in the
Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians' Rationales"1.5 "Characterizing
Reader Behavior on Wikipedia"1.6 Wikipedia citations (footnotes) are only clicked on
one of every 200 pageviews1.7 "Dwelling on Wikipedia Investigating time spent by
global encyclopedia readers"1.8 "Wikipedia graph mining dynamic structure of
collective memory1.9 Harmful content rare on English Wikipedia1.10 "Sockpuppet
detection in the English Wikipedia"1.11 "Wiki-Atlas: Rendering Wikipedia Content
through Cartographic and Augmented Reality Mediums"1.12 "Evidence of Dark
Matter: Assessing the Contribution of Subject-matter Experts to Wikipedia"1.13 Why
Apple's Siri relies on data from Wikipedia infoboxes instead of (just) Wikidata1.14
"Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata"1.15 "Analyzing the
evolution of wikis with WikiChron"1.16 "State of Wikimedia Research
2018-2019"2 Other events3 Other recent publications3.1 "Revealing the Role of
User Moods in Struggling Search Tasks"3.2 Helping students find a research advisor,
with Google Scholar and Wikipedia3.3 "Uncovering the Semantics of Wikipedia
Categories"3.4 "Adapting NMT to caption translation in Wikimedia Commons for
low-resource languages"3.5 "Automatic Detection of Online Abuse and Analysis of
Problematic Users in Wikipedia"3.6 "Self Attentive Edit Quality Prediction in
Wikipedia"3.7 "TableNet: An Approach for Determining Fine-grained Relations for
Wikipedia Tables"3.8 "Training and hackathon on building biodiversity knowledge
graphs" with Wikidata3.9 "Spectral Clustering Wikipedia Keyword-Based Search
Results"3.10 "Indigenous Knowledge for Wikipedia: A Case Study with an OvaHerero
Community in Eastern Namibia"3.11 "On Persuading an OvaHerero Community to Join
the Wikipedia Community"
*** 16 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
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