The fourth issue (October 2011) of the monthly Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-10-31
In this issue:
1. Wiki research beyond the English Wikipedia at WikiSym
2. Quality of drug information in Wikipedia
3. Predicting editor survival: The winners of the Wikipedia Participation Challenge
4. What it takes to become an admin: Insights from the Polish Wikipedia
5. High search engine rankings of Wikipedia articles found to be justified by quality
6. Attempts to predict the outcome of AfD discussions from an article's edit history
7. In brief
8. References
••• 21 items were covered in this issue •••
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Best,
Dario
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Dario Taraborelli, PhD
Senior Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://nitens.org/taraborelli