The latest issue (March 2012) of the monthly Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-03-26
In this issue:
1 How editors evaluate each other: effects of status and similarity 2 Sociological analysis of debates about flagged revisions in the English, German and French Wikipedias 3 Understanding collaboration-related dialog in Simple English Wikipedia 4 Majority of UK academics prohibit students from using Wikipedia, but use it just as frequently themselves 5 A systematic review of the Wikipedia literature 6 Briefly 7 References
••• 16 new items were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Jodi Schneider, Nicolas Jullien and Piotr Konieczny for their contribution
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Best,
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer