Hi everyone,

We’re preparing for the August 2020 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202008 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication time is 30 August 15:59 UTC. If you can't make this deadline but would like to cover a particular paper in the subsequent issue, leave a note next to the paper's entry below. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.

*Highlights from this month:*

- Broadening African Self-Representation on Wikipedia: A Field Experiment - Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective - Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata - Impact of individual actions on the collective response of social systems - Multiple Texts as a Limiting Factor in Online Learning: Quantifying (Dis-)similarities of Knowledge Networks across Languages - Notable Site Recognition using Deep Learning on Mobile and Crowd-sourced Imagery - Protecting the Web from Misinformation - Ripples on the web: Spreading lake information via Wikipedia - Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia Education Program - Wikipedia, COVID-19, and readers' interests across languages - Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism - WiTPy: A Toolkit to Parse and Analyse Wikipedia Talk Pages

Masssly and Tilman Bayer

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