The May 2015 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/May
In this issue:
1 German study finds Wikipedia's pharma articles accurate and largely complete
2 Notable women "slightly overrepresented" (not underrepresented) on Wikipedia,
but the Smurfette principle still holds
3 Editors who use user talk pages are more involved in high-quality articles
4 "Wikipedia, collective memory, and the Vietnam War"
5 Survey of secondary school use of Wikipedia
6 Briefly
6.1 "User engagement on Wikipedia, a review of studies of readers and editors"
6.2 Freedom of panorama in Europe
6.3 Talking like an admin: linguistic mimicry and network centrality on Wikipedia
••• 8 publications were covered in this issue •••
Thanks to William Skaggs, Max Klein, Piotr Konieczny, Gamaliel and Jonathan Morgan for
contributing.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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