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The impact of the flagged revisions software feature on the German Wikipedia since its introduction in May 2008 is to be evaluated in an academic research project. As announced last week,[1][2] Wikimedia Deutschland has commissioned a quantitative analysis by the Libresoft research group located at the Rey Juan Carlos University near Madrid, Spain. An excerpt of the contract's specifications reads as follows:

The research team will be headed by Felipe Ortega, who last year presented the results of his dissertation ("Wikipedia: A Quantitative Analysis"), which prompted media coverage and community discussions about the sustainability of Wikipedia communities (see earlier Signpost coverage: 23 November 2009, 7 December 2009, and 30 November 2009)

  1. ^ Daniel (2010-04-09). "Libresoft untersucht gesichtete Versionen". Wikimedia Blog (in German). Wikimedia Deutschland. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  2. ^ "New project: Impact of flagged revisions in the German Wikipedia". LibreSoft. Retrieved 2010-04-14.

French National Library to cooperate with Wikisource

Wikimedia France has signed an agreement with the Bibliothèque nationale de France which will provide the French Wikisource with 1400 public domain texts that had been prepared for the library's Gallica web resource. As explained in the 7 April announcement, the automatic OCR process used to digitize the material is prone to frequent errors in such old texts, and the quality of the transcriptions is expected to benefit from human proofreading by the Wikisource volunteers.

Wikimedia Deutschland wins court case

The German Wikimedia chapter has announced that on 26 March it had prevailed in a lawsuit before a Hamburg court.

According to an article by Heise News and a redacted copy of the court's decision published on the blog of Thorsten Feldmann, Wikimedia Deutschland's lawyer, the plaintiff was a member of the Hamburg state parliament until 2008, but objected to being described as a former politician in the article about him. He also complained about the article summarizing rumors that had appeared about him in the press, these remain deleted, although the article itself still exists in a short version.

Earlier plaintiffs from Germany (see Signpost coverage: 2008, 2006) had unsuccessfully used the chapter's ownership of the domain wikipedia.de to hold it accountable for content on de.wikipedia.org. In the recent case, the plaintiff also argued that Wikimedia Deutschland was influencing content by organizing "Wikipedia Academy" outreach seminars in cooperation with the Foundation (which he also tried to hold legally accountable), and by recruiting active users which prevented modification by external persons. All these arguments were rejected by the court.

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