We have several contributions of relevance to the Wikidata community at our wiki research workshop hosted at WWW'16 (more papers will be announced soon from our second workshop at ICWSM '16).

Dario

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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:00 AM
Subject: WWW 2016 Wiki Workshop: accepted papers
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


We're thrilled to announce the list of papers accepted at the WWW 2016 Wiki Workshop. You can follow @wikiworkshop16 for updates.

Dario
(on behalf of the organizers)


Johanna Geiß and Michael Gertz
With a Little Help from my Neighbors: Person Name Linking Using the Wikipedia Social Network
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Roesch and Wendy Hall
Finding Structure in Wikipedia Edit Activity: An Information Cascade Approach
Paolo Boldi and Corrado Monti
Cleansing Wikipedia Categories using Centrality
Thomas Steiner
Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets
Yu Suzuki and Satoshi Nakamura
Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Editors through Crowdsourcing
Vikrant Yadav and Sandeep Kumar
Learning Web Queries For Retrieval of Relevant Information About an Entity in a Wikipedia Category
Haggai Roitman, Shay Hummel, Ella Rabinovich, Benjamine Sznajder, Noam Slonim and Ehud Aharoni
On the Retrieval of Wikipedia Articles Containing Claims on Controversial Topics
Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Santa Maiti and Arindam Pal
Automatic Discovery of Emerging Trends using Cluster Name Synthesis on User Consumption Data
Freddy Brasileiro, João Paulo A. Almeida, Victorio A. Carvalho and Giancarlo Guizzardi
Applying a Multi-Level Modeling Theory to Assess Taxonomic Hierarchies in Wikidata



Dario Taraborelli  Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
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