Hi everyone,

We’re preparing for the July 2017 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201707 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Friday September 22 UTC. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.

Highlights from this month:

• Modeling Dynamics of Wikipedia: An Empirical Analysis Using a Vector Error Correction Model • Implementation and Evaluation of a Framework to calculate Impact Measures for Wikipedia Authors • The Russian-language Wikipedia as a Measure of Society Political Mythologization • An end-to-end learning solution for assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles • What Do Wikidata and Wikipedia Have in Common?: An Analysis of Their Use of External References • A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata • Interpolating Quality Dynamics in Wikipedia and Demonstrating the Keilana Effect • Before the Sense of ‘We’: Identity Work as a Bridge from Mass Collaboration to Group Emergence

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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