The April 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/April
In this issue:
• 1 Too good to be true? Detecting COI, Attacks and Neutrality using Sentiment Analysis • 2 "A Comparative Study of Academic impact and Wikipedia Ranking" • 3 1970s UNESCO debate applied to Wikipedia's systemic bias in the case of Cambodia • 4 Reasons why wikilinks are added and removed • 5 Generation Z judges [[Generation Z]], questioning role of amphetamines • 6 Visualizing the "flow of ideas" on Wikiversity • 7 In brief • 7.1 Wikipedia Vs. Encyclopedia Britannica: A Longitudinal Analysis" • 7.2 "Wikipedia uses in learning design: A literature review" • 7.3 Wikipedia assignment has positive impact on students' "research persistence" • 7.4 Co-authorship patterns around Pope Francis, and Boston bombing views • 7.5 Mining content removed from articles on breaking news events. • 7.6 Spam on the rise as reason for user blocks • 7.7 10k birth places and 40k almae matres from Wikipedia biographies, human-vetted • 7.8 How Wikipedia's Google matrix differs for politicians and artists • 7.9 A Wikipedia search algorithm that emphasizes serendipity • 7.10 Usability study recommends 18-point font for Wikipedia • 7.11 OpenSym, Wikisym, ClosedSym? • 7.12 Wikimedia France research award winner announced • 7.13 Provenance graphs • 8 References
••• 21 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to: Piotr Konieczny, Oren Bochman, Taha Yasseri, Jonathan T. Morgan for contributing
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer
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