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 -- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter/Identi.ca: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
