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

In this issue:

1 Getting more female editors may not increase the ratio of articles about women

2 Theorizing the foundations of the gender gap

3 How old and new astronomy papers are being cited

4 Wikipedia is not a suitable source for election predictions

5 “Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia: Collaboration and collective memory around online social movements"

6 Briefly

6.1 Conferences and events

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

Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli

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