Hi everyone, We’re preparing for the July 2018 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201807 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on July 27 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month: - Computing controversy: Formal model and algorithms for detecting controversy on Wikipedia and in search queries - Digitale Methoden und Werkzeuge für Diskursanalysen am Beispiel der Wikipedia - Evaluating lexical coverage in Simple English Wikipedia articles: a corpus-driven study - Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences - IMGPEDIA: A large-scale knowledge-base to perform visuo-semantic queries over Wikimedia Commons images - Interactions and influence of world painters from the reduced Google matrix of Wikipedia networks - Locating foci of translation on Wikipedia - Modeling Deliberative Argumentation Strategies on Wikipedia - Representing Metro Manila on Wikipedia - Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems - The Impact of Topic Characteristics and Threat on Willingness to Engage with Wikipedia Articles: Insights from Laboratory Experiments - The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg: Diversity of Visual Encyclopedic Knowledge Across Wikipedia Language Editions - Time-focused analysis of connectivity and popularity of historical persons in Wikipedia - Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory - Translation and the Production of Knowledge in Wikipedia: Chronicling the Assassination of Boris Nemtsov - Using wikis in the higher education: The case of Wikipedia - Vandalism on Collaborative Web Communities: An Exploration of Editorial Behaviour in Wikipedia - What is the Commons Worth? Estimating the Value of Wikimedia Imagery by Observing Downstream Use - What leads Ukranian University students to use Wikipedia? - Why do people search Wikipedia for information on multiple sclerosis? Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
