Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for the February 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201602 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is likely Friday February 26 UTC or later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
Controversy goes online: Schizophrenia genetics on Wikipedia Dynamics of Disagreement: Large-Scale Temporal Network Analysis Reveals Negative Interactions in Online Collaboration Employing Wikipedia for good not evil: innovative approaches to collaborative writing assessment From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration. ACM (2016) Gender Gap in Wikipedia Editing: A Cross Language Comparison Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation Monetary Materialities of Peer-Produced Knowledge: The Case of Wikipedia and Its Tensions with Paid Labour Request for Adminship (RFA) within Wikipedia: How Do User Contributions Instill Community Trust? Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia. WWW '16 Visualizing a Modern History of Music Using Wikipedia Data Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets WIKIPEDIA vs. ACADEMIA An investigation into the role of the Internet in education, with a special focus on collaborative editing tools such as Wikipedia
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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