Hi everybody, we’re preparing for the May 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201505 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Highlights from this month: - Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia - Predicting elections from online information flows: towards theoretically informed models - Understanding Graph Structure of Wikipedia for Query Expansion - A New Epistemic Culture Wikipedia as an Arena for the Production of Knowledge in Late Modernity - The EU Public Interest Clinic and Wikimedia Present: Extending Freedom of Panorama in Europe - Utilizing the Wikidata System to Improve the Quality of Medical Content in Wikipedia in Diverse Languages: A Pilot Study - Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles - Centre Stage: How Social Network Position Shapes Linguistic Coordination - Synthesizing knowledge from disagreement - Aligning Sentences from Standard Wikipedia to Simple Wikipedia - Debating reliable sources: writing the history of the Vietnam War on Wikipedia - Turning Introductory Comparative Politics and Elections Courses into Social Science Research Communities Using Wikipedia: Improving Both Teaching and Research If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l