Dear all,
You may know about WikiSym -- the international symposium on wikis and open collaboration -- which is an annual research conference about wikis. It is being held week after next in Mountain View, CA this year. There is always a good deal of Wikipedia research presented at WikiSym. This year I am very pleased that the best paper award (for both short and long papers) went to two papers about gender and Wikipedia:
http://www.wikisym.org/2011/09/21/best-paper-winners-for-wikisym-2011/
The conference proceedings & full papers are not yet available, but when they are I will be sure to send them along. it's so exciting to see great research in this area! congratulations to the authors.
-- phoebe