The December 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

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

Contents:

1 Cohort of cross-language Wikipedia editors analyzed 2 Attempt to use Wikipedia pageviews to predict election results in Iran, Germany and the UK 3 Integrity of Wikipedia and Wikipedia research 4 Briefly 4.1 "How we found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia" 4.2 "Evaluation of gastroenterology and hepatology articles on Wikipedia" 4.3 Overview of research on FLOSS and Wikipedia 4.4 In battle over Walt Whitman's sexuality, Wikipedia policies "tamed the mass into producing a good encyclopedia entry" 4.5 Elinor Ostrom's theories applied to Wikipedia 4.6 New dissertation on Wiktionary

••• 9 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Daniel Mietchen, Maximilian Klein and Piotr Konieczny for contributing.

Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli

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