Hi everybody,

here’s a (belated) announcement for the October 2013 issue of the research newsletter, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet.

This is also a reminder that the inaugural Wiki Research Hackathon is coming to a place (hopefully) near you this Saturday. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/November_9th,_2013 and http://www.meetup.com/WikiResearch/ for more information.

———— The October 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/October

In this issue:

• 1 User influence on site policies is highest on Wikipedia, compared to YouTube and Facebook • 2 Wikipedia's coverage of academics • 3 Briefly • 4 References

••• 10 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to: Taha Yasseri, Han-Teng Liao, Piotr Konieczny for contributing

Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer

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