The February 2016 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

In this issue:

1 "Monetary materialities of peer-produced knowledge: the case of Wikipedia and Its Tensions with Paid Labour"

2 "The Swedish Wikipedia gender gap"

3 Test of 300k citations: how verifiable is "verifiable" in practice?

4 Twelve years of Wikipedia research

5 Further criticism of study that had criticized accuracy of medical Wikipedia articles

6 Briefly

6.1 The attention economy of Wikipedia articles on news topics

6.2 A Swiss perspective on Wikipedia and academia

*** 18 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***

Thanks to Nicolas Jullien and Piotr Konieczny for contributing.

Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli

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