The December 2012 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/December This issue completes the 2nd volume of the newsletter. 1 How Wikipedia deals with a mass shooting 2 Network positions and contributions to online public goods: the case of the Chinese Wikipedia 3 Quality of pharmaceutical articles in the Spanish Wikipedia 4 Wikipedia editing patterns are consistent with a non-finite state model of computation 5 Wikipedia as our collective memory 6 SOPA blackout decision analyzed 7 Bots and collective intelligence explored in dissertation 8 Briefly 9 References ••• 20 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Daniel Mietchen, Piotr Konieczny, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Taha Yasseri, Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw and Sage Ross 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/