Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the August 2018 research newsletter and looking for contributors.
Please take a look at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201808 and add your name next to
any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on September 28
UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and
one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
- "Sharing Small Pieces of the World": Increasing and Broadening
Participation in Wikimedia Commons
- A Wikia Census: Motives, Tools and and Insights
- Characterizing the Triggering Phenomenon in Wikipedia
- Comparative Analysis of the Informativeness and Encyclopedic Style of the Popular Web
Information Sources
- Do less active participants make active participants more active? An examination of
Chinese Wikipedia
- Do We All Talk Before We Type?: Understanding Collaboration in Wikipedia Language
Editions
- Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding
- Neural Article Pair Modeling for Wikipedia Sub-article Matching
- The Battle for Wikipedia: The New Age of ‘Lost Victories’?
- The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the
2016 Zika epidemic
- University Students in the Educational Field and Wikipedia Vandalism
- What is the Commons Worth? Estimating the Value of Wikimedia Imagery by Observing
Downstream Use
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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