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The inaugural edition of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter, published on July 25, 2011.

The Wikimedia Research Newsletter (WRN) is a joint initiative of the Wikimedia Research Committee and the Signpost to cover research updates of relevance to the Wikimedia community. The newsletter is edited monthly and features both internal research at the Wikimedia Foundation and work conducted by external research teams. It is published as a section of the Signpost and as a stand-alone article on the Wikimedia Research Index.

Facts and figures

The inaugural issue of the WRN was published on July 25, 2011, after two Signpost articles covering recent Wikimedia research. The six issues published in the first volume (July-December 2011) featured a total of 93 references and attracted altogether more than 17,000 pageviews (not including visits to the WMF blog edition).

How to subscribe

You can subscribe to the newsletter via the following RSS feed from the Wikimedia Foundation's blog:

The table of contents of each issue is cross-posted to wiki-research-l

How to contribute

This newsletter would not be possible without contributions from the research and Wikimedia community. We welcome submissions of new projects, papers and datasets to be featured in the newsletter. Work on the upcoming edition is coordinated on an Etherpad, where you can suggest items to be covered, or sign up to write a review or summary for one of those that are already listed. Beyond that,

• If you want your project to be featured, please create a new project page using the form on the research project directory
• If you have published or you know of a recent paper that should be featured, please add an entry to the canonical directory of academic studies of Wikipedia
• If you have released code or data of relevance to research on Wikimedia projects, please contact us

For anything else (such as events, CFPs, research blog posts) please get in touch or make sure you post an announcement to wiki-research-l (we are monitoring this list on a regular basis)

We are also looking for contributors (either occasional or regular) for the newsletter. If you have reviewed recent Wikipedia literature or would like to help writing the newsletter, please contact us.

Open access vs. closed access publications

Complete references of the publications featured in the newsletter can be found at the bottom of each issue. Publications that are either self-archived in an open access repository or published in an open access journal will be marked with an open access icon next to the download link, e.g.:

Laniado, David, Riccardo Tasso, Y. Volkovich, and Andreas Kaltenbrunner. When the Wikipedians talk: network and tree structure of Wikipedia discussion pages. In Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM '11), 177-184, 2011. PDF .

Publications that are not open access (i.e. behind a paywall or tied to institutional subscriptions) will be marked with a closed access icon:

Dalip, Daniel Hasan, Raquel Lara Santos, Diogo Rennó Oliveira, Valéria Freitas Amaral, Marcos André Gonçalves, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Raquel C.M. Minardi, and Jussara Marques de Almeida (2011). GreenWiki: A tool to support users' assessment of the quality of Wikipedia articles. In Proceeding of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries (JCDL '11), 469. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. DOI .

Archives

• WRN 2(1) – January 2012
• WRN 1(6) – December 2011
• WRN 1(5) – November 2011
• WRN 1(4) – October 2011
• WRN 1(3) – September 2011
• WRN 1(2) – August 2011
• WRN 1(1) – July 2011 (inaugural edition)
• Recent research – Signpost, 6 June 2011
• Recent research – Signpost, 11 April 2011

Contact

For general queries on the research newsletter other than project or paper contributions you can leave a message on the talk page or mail us at: researchnews@wikimedia.org