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Articles by: Jonathan Morgan
[edit] News from the WMF Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?
2019-04-30
Wikimedia Foundation data scientists are using machine learning to predict whether—and why—any given sentence on Wikipedia may need a citation in order to help editors identify areas of content violating the verifiability policy.
Recent research How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
2018-10-01
And other recent research papers.
Recent research Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia
2016-11-04
A recap of recent research in our realm
Recent research Easier navigation via better wikilinks
2016-08-04
Plus: new Wiki Studies journal, Wikipedia usage on Twitter and more
Recent research Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
2015-10-28
New research about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.
Recent research Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
2015-05-27
Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.
Recent research Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped
2014-03-26
Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates: Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.
Recent research Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years
2014-01-29
An author experimented with "a promising type of assignment in formal translator training which involves translating and publishing Wikipedia articles", in three courses with students at the University of Warsaw.
Recent research Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?
2013-09-25
A conference paper makes a rather serious claim: "We find a surprisingly large number of editors who change their behavior and begin focusing more on a particular controversial topic once they are promoted to administrator status."
Recent research Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview
2013-07-31
An ArXiv preprint titled "Highlighting entanglement of cultures via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles" is about the Wikipedia articles on individuals and their position in the hyperlink network of the articles in each Wikipedia language edition, considering the whole hyperlink network.