The March 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/March
In this issue:
• 1 Wikipedia's "Ignore all rules" policy (IAR) is a double edged sword in
deletion arguments
• 2 Activity of content translators on Wikipedia examined
• 3 Comparison of collaborative editing in OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia
• 4 Wikipedia's coverage of breaking news stories is still a fertile field of
research
• 5 Exposing talk page discussions leads to drop in perceived article quality
• 6 Briefly
• 100 million hours spent editing Wikipedia
• Wiktionary and sign language
• Wikipedia compared to Q&A website in Korea
• Wikipedia articles on nephrology reliable, but hard to read
• Comparing English and Arabic Wikipedia POV differences
• The overrepresentation of cricket on English Wikipedia
• Grumpiness due to a "serious typographical error"
• Wikipedians do not tend to conform more to groupthink when in a less anonymous
situation
• Estimate for economic benefit of Wikipedia: $50 million by 2006 already
• 91% of German journalists use Wikipedia
• Inserting weblinks on Wikipedia to drive traffic
• Case study on "Accommodating the Wikipedia Project in Higher Education"
• Wikipedia student club participation
• Monthly edits still on the rise
• How many Wikipedia edits come from locals?
• New overview page of Wikimedia data for researchers
• Wikimedia funding for Wikisym '13 despite open access concerns
• Research newsletter started on French Wikipedia
• Inferring relationships from editing behavior on Wikipedia
• Google Research releases the WikiLinks Corpus: 40M mentions to Wikipedia pages
collected from 10M web pages
• 7 References
••• 26 publications were covered in this issue •••
Thanks to: Amir E. Aharoni, Piotr Konieczny, Taha Yasseri, Oren Bochman, Heather Ford,
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Daniel Mietchen for contributing
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer
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