The August 2012 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-08-27

In this issue:

1 Wikipedia-based graphs visualize influences between thinkers, writers and musicians 2 Information retrieval scientists turn their attention to Wikipedia's page view logs 3 The limits of amateur NPOV history 4 Three new papers about Wikipedia class assignments 5 Substantitative and non-substantitative contributors show different motivation and expertise 6 Is there systemic bias in Wikipedia's coverage of the Tiananmen protests? 7 "Low-hanging fruit hypothesis" explains Wikipedia's slowed growth? 8 Briefly 9 References

••• 22 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Piotr Konieczny, Sage Ross, Evan Rosen and Oren Bochman for contributing

Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer

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