[Wiki-research-l] Biases in Wikipedia Coverage of Academics

Dear All, This is a quick note to announce that our article titled "The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics" is now officially published by EPJ Data Science: http://www.epjdatascience.com/content/3/1/1 A draft of that has been previously featured in: Wikimedia research Newsletter: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/October#Wikipedia.2… The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/does-your-professor-h… Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/wikipedia-professors-study_n_42411… And some of you had made great suggestions to improve the article, specially Paolo Massa, whom I thank again here. Further comments and feedbacks are more than welcome. best Taha -- Dr Taha Yasseri http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/ Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St.Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Tel.01865-287229