Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for the July 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please
take a look at:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201507 and add your name next to any
paper you are interested in covering. We encourage coverage of Submissions from the just
ended Wikimania 2015 conference in Mexico City. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph
reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
Models for Understanding Collective Intelligence on Wikipedia
Wikipedia vs. peer-reviewed medical literature for information about the 10 most costly
medication conditions
Wikipedia, democracy and local elections in São Paulo: a study of the developing of
articles edited during the election campaign in 2012
Detection of text-based advertising and promotion in Wikipedia by deep learning method
Extracting and Visualizing Biographical Events from Wikipedia
Detecting spatial patterns of natural hazards from the Wikipedia knowledge base
Generating Quizzes for History Learning Based on Wikipedia Articles
The influence of network structures of Wikipedia discussion pages on the efficiency of
WikiProjects
The Rise and Fall of an Online Project. Is Bureaucracy Killing Efficiency in Open
Knowledge Production?
Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
VEWS: A Wikipedia Vandal Early Warning System
An agent-based model of edit wars in Wikipedia: How and when is consensus reached
Google Trends and Wikipedia Page Views
Hot news detection using Wikipedia
Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
#Wikipedia on Twitter: Analyzing Tweets about Wikipedia
Towards Vandalism Detection in Knowledge Bases: Corpus Construction and Analysis
Wikidata World Maps June 2015
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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