The May 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/May
In this issue:
• 1 Motivations to contribute to the Persian Wikipedia
• 2 Science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than on the English
Wikipedia?
• 3 In brief
• Winning and losing argument patterns in deletion debates
• Why English Wikinews rejects submissions
• Wikipedia as a discussion forum for Malaysian students
• Using Wikipedia to predict the stock market
• Main NPOV concerns in articles about corporations: Promotional language and inclusion
of criticism
• "Gangnam Style" pageview trends
• 4 References
••• 9 publications were covered in this issue •••
Thanks to: Piotr Konieczny, Aaron Halfaker, Taha Yasseri, Daniel Mietchen for
contributing
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer
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