(* apologies for cross-posting *)

The second issue of the monthly Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-08-29

In this issue:

• Effective collaboration leads to earlier article promotion • Deleted revisions in the English Wikipedia • Wikipedia and open-access repositories • Quality of featured articles doesn't always impress readers • In swine flu outbreak, Wikipedia reading preceded blogging and newspaper writing • Extensive analysis of gender gap in Wikipedia to be presented at WikiSym 2011 • "Bandwagon effect" spurs wiki adoption among Chinese-speaking users • In brief

You can post suggestions and contributions for the next issue at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter

Dario

-- Dario Taraborelli, PhD Senior Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation

http://wikimediafoundation.org http://nitens.org/taraborelli