The May 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/May
In this issue:
• 1 Motivations to contribute to the Persian Wikipedia • 2 Science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than on the English Wikipedia? • 3 In brief • Winning and losing argument patterns in deletion debates • Why English Wikinews rejects submissions • Wikipedia as a discussion forum for Malaysian students • Using Wikipedia to predict the stock market • Main NPOV concerns in articles about corporations: Promotional language and inclusion of criticism • "Gangnam Style" pageview trends • 4 References
••• 9 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to: Piotr Konieczny, Aaron Halfaker, Taha Yasseri, Daniel Mietchen for contributing
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer
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