Wikimedia Research Newsletter, May 2017
Contents 1 “Wikipedia matters”: a significant impact of user-generated content on real-life choices 2 Improved article quality predictions with deep learning 3 Recent behavior has a strong impact on...
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Contents 1 Briefly 1.1 “Wikum: bridging discussion forums and wikis using recursive summarization” 1.2 Annual “State of Wikimedia Research” summary presentation at Wikimania 1.3 Conferences and events...
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Contents 1 “Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia” 2 Briefly 2.1 85% of German scientists use Wikipedia, and other European media survey results 2.2 Conferences...
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Contents 1 Who wrote this? A new dataset tracks the provenance of English Wikipedia text over 15 years 2 Briefly 2.1 Conferences and events 3 Other recent publications 4 References Who wrote this? A...
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Contents 1 Medical articles on French Wikipedia have “high rate of veracity” 2 Assessing article quality and popularity across 44 Wikipedia language versions 3 “Wikipedia: An opportunity to rethink...
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Contents 1 “Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions” 2 Are you a policy wonk? Who succeeds in talk page discussions 3 “Determining Quality of Articles in Polish Wikipedia Based on Linguistic...
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Contents 1 Politically diverse editors and article quality 2 The study of controversy 3 Students edit but still doubt the value of Wikipedia 4 Researching the research using Wikipedia as a corpus 5...
View ArticleWikimedia Research Newsletter, May 2018
Contents 1 Understanding participation gaps: Why users don’t hear of Wikipedia, don’t visit it, don’t know they can edit, and don’t contribute 2 Edit-a-thon participants are motivated by desire to...
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Contents 1 “On the Self-similarity of Wikipedia Talks: a Combined Discourse-analytical and Quantitative Approach” 2 “How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information” 3 Marketing, social...
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This Recent research column originally appeared in the March 2022 issue of the Signpost. It is republished from on-wiki, and by extension is dual-licensed under CC BY SA 4.0 and GFDL 1.3. The authors...
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