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Articles by: Phoebe[edit]
Recent research WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news
2012-10-29
A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.
News and notes Wikimedians get serious about women in science
2012-10-22
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
In the media Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
2012-10-15
This week saw a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.
Recent research "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012
2012-09-24
A paper to appear in a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist describes how "several changes that the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have led to a more restrictive environment for newcomers" and points to three factors contributing to the increasingly "restrictive environment" they face.
Recent research WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified
2011-10-31
News and notes Collaboration with the British Museum and in Serbia, Interaction with researchers, and more
2010-06-21
News and notes Pending changes goes live, first state-funded Wikipedia project concludes, brief news
2010-06-14
News and notes "Pending changes" trial, Chief hires, British Museum prizes, Interwiki debate, and more
2010-06-07
News and notes New puzzle globe, feature for admins, Israel's "Wikipedia Bill", unsourced bios declining
2010-05-24
News and notes Berlin WikiConference, Brooklyn Museum & Google.org collaborations, review backlog removed, 1 billion edits
2010-04-19
News and notes Usability rollout, downtime, admin phishing, Wikimania scholarships and more
2010-03-29
News and notes A Wikiversity controversy, Wikimedian-in-Residence, image donation, editing contest, WMF jobs
2010-03-15
News and notes New CTO, Britain Loves Wikipedia, Telefónica partnership, Multimedia and more
2010-02-01
News and notes Wikipedia's death report premature, fundraiser, usability, new CSD, noms, and more
2009-12-07
News and notes Article Incubator, Wikipedians take Manhattan, new features in testing, and much more
2009-10-05