Hi everyone,

We’re preparing for the January 2021 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202101 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication time is 31 January 23:59 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:*

- A Review of Public Datasets in Question Answering Research - Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities - Assessing the Contribution of Subject-matter Experts to Wikipedia - Controlled Analyses of Social Biases in Wikipedia Bios - Empathy plasticity: Decolonizing and reorganizing Wikipedia and other online spaces to address racial equity - HopRetriever: Retrieve Hops over Wikipedia to Answer Complex Questions - Identifying Used Methods and Datasets in Scientific Publications - Measuring the quality of scientific references in Wikipedia: an analysis of more than 115M citations to over 800 000 scientific articles - New maps for an inclusive Wikipedia: decolonial scholarship and strategies to counter systemic bias - SF-QA: Simple and Fair Evaluation Library for Open-domain Question Answering - The Influence of Multilingualism and Mutual Intelligibility on Wikipedia Reading Behaviour - A Research Proposal - The Truth is Out There: Investigating Conspiracy Theories in Text Generation - Visibility Layers: A Framework for Facing the Complexity of the Gender Gap in Wikipedia Content - Wikipedia as OER: the “Learning with Wikipedia” project

*Masssly and Tilman Bayer*

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