The May 2016 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/31/research-newsletter-may-2016/

In this issue:

1 English still the lingua franca of Wikipedia

2 A new algorithmic tool for analyzing rationales on articles for deletion

3 Controversy goes online: schizophrenia genetics on Wikipedia

4 Evaluating link-based recommendations for Wikipedia

5 Briefly

5.1 "Bridging the gap between Wikipedia and academia"

6 Troublesome tools: how can Wikipedia editing enhance student teachers' digital skills?

7 Wikipedia as a tool for 21st-century teaching and learning

8 Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in higher education

9 Analysing temporal evolution of interlingual Wikipedia article pairs

*** 20 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***

Thanks to Morten Warncke-Wang, Piotr Konieczny, Federico Leva and Steve Jankowski for contributing.

Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli

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