The February 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/February
In this issue:
1 Wikipedia in historic context: "Stigmergic accumulation" is not new 2 UK university lecturers still skeptical and uninformed about Wikipedia 3 Saint Petersburg has more sisters than any other city in the world 4 "Distributed Wiki" proposal to replace NPOV with "every point of view (EPOV)" 5 Briefly 6 References
••• 15 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Piotr Konieczny, Taha Yasseri, Heather Ford, Sage Ross and Daniel Mietchen for contributing
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer
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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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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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