RENDER research has made it twice into the “Wikipedia Signpost“:

• The first article covers the upcoming event “Wikipedia Academy 2012” and mentions both papers of the Render team that have been accepted there. Read the full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-06-25/Recent_research
• The second article presents the work on revert detection where the RENDER project is also working on. Read the full article here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-05-28#New_algorithm_provides_better_revert_detection

Wikimania 2012 will take place in Washington DC from 12.7. to 15.7. 2012.

Accepted submission:

• Angelika Adam: “Supporting tools for a diversified Wikipedia“

The Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge (29.6. – 1.7.2012) conference is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland in cooperation with FU Berlin and Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

The RENDER Project will be presented during the Speed Geeking Session: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Schedule#Speed_Geeking

Accepted papers from RENDER partners:

• Guillermo Garrido, Enrique Alfonseca, Jean-Yves Delort and Anselmo Peñas: Extracting Wikipedia Historical Attributes Data
• Fabian Flöck and Andriy Rodchenko: Whose article is it anyway? – Detecting authorship distribution in Wikipedia articles over time with WIKIGINI

Find the program of the event here.

Gerrit Holz (Wikimedia Deutschland) is giving a poster presentation concerning the RENDER toolkit at the WebScience 2012 (22-24.6.2012) in Evanston, IL.

• Felix Leif Keppmann, Fabian Flöck, Angelika Adam, Elena Simperl, Delia Rusu, Anselm Metzger and Gerrit Holz. “A Knowledge Diversity Dashboard for Wikipedia” (available here)

more Information on the event is available at: http://www.websci12.org/program