(* apologies for cross-posting *)
The second issue of the monthly Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-08-29
In this issue:
• Effective collaboration leads to earlier article promotion
• Deleted revisions in the English Wikipedia
• Wikipedia and open-access repositories
• Quality of featured articles doesn't always impress readers
• In swine flu outbreak, Wikipedia reading preceded blogging and newspaper writing
• Extensive analysis of gender gap in Wikipedia to be presented at WikiSym 2011
• "Bandwagon effect" spurs wiki adoption among Chinese-speaking users
• In brief
You can post suggestions and contributions for the next issue at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
Dario
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Dario Taraborelli, PhD
Senior Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://nitens.org/taraborelli