WikiResearch @WikiResearch

Research news on @Wikipedia @Wikidata @Wikimedia, hot off the press. Volunteer-curated by @tilmanbayer & @mad_astronaut. Read our newsletter for full coverage meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:… San Francisco Joined December 2011

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Cristian Consonni @CristianCantoro

a day ago

Honored to have received the this award for our demo "Wikipedia Community Health Dashboards", check them out here: vitalsigns.wmcloud.org

ICWSM @icwsm

5 days ago

Congrats to the winners of this year's best paper, best dataset paper, best poster paper, and best Web Agent demo/poster 🎉 #ICWSM2026

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

17 hours ago

"Monitoring the gender gap in the coverage of biology professors on Wikipedia" doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… Women "were significantly less likely [to be on WP] until 2018. However,the trend reversed in 2022,and women were 25% more likely than men to have a Wikipedia biography in 2024"

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

a day ago

In the latest issue of our newsletter: * "Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language" (with Wikifunctions/Abstract Wikipedia) And other recent research publications involving Wikidata and Wikipedia meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

2 weeks ago

@Wikipedia @JemielniakD "@Wikipedia at 25: The Encyclopedia That Might Not Last" @JemielniakD follows up on how the extraction of its value by artificial intelligence and other factors might break Wikipedia. osf.io/preprints/soca…

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2 weeks ago

"@Wikipedia at 25: The Encyclopedia That Shouldn't Exist" @JemielniakD on how its governance structure, quality control mechanisms, and integration into educational practice make Wikipedia work. osf.io/preprints/soca…

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

2 weeks ago

Results from the Wikimedia Foundation's 2025 global survey of Wikipedia readers meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…

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3 weeks ago

"WikiMAG: A Multi-Agent Guided Framework for Generating Structured Wikipedia-like Articles" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI… Outperforms earlier efforts (including STORM/Co-STORM), using an open-source LLM (Qwen3-32B)

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

3 weeks ago

See also the review of an earlier version of this paper (and other research comparing Grokipedia and Wikipedia) in the December issue of our newsletter: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…

Taha Yasseri @TahaYasseri

3 weeks ago

Paper out in @PNASNews. We compared ~18k matched articles Wikipedia vs Grokipedia (@grok-made) Many Grokip pages closely mirror Wikip, but a substantial subset diverges strongly in structure, sourcing & political orientation, particularly in religion and history @WikiResearch

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Taha Yasseri @TahaYasseri

3 weeks ago

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

4 weeks ago

"The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age" (book review) ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc… "Wikipedia as epistemic infrastructure represents a new order of knowledge production"

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

a month ago

"Beyond Access: Contextualizing the Benefits of Broadband through Contributor Dynamics on Wikipedia" broadband reshapes but does not evenly redistribute editorial influence. (Yin and Thebault-Spieker, @acm_chi 2026) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

2 months ago

Wikimedia Foundation invites feedback on grant proposals for its 2026 Research Fund (until April 21) lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis…

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

2 months ago

"The hypothesis: AI assistants intercept a growing share of informational queries that would previously have ended on Wikipedia. The effect should be strongest on evergreen 'what is X' articles" github.com/monperrus/wiki… (post by @martinmonperrus )

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2 months ago

"Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and Minority Language Editions" with the "WikiGap" browser extension (thesis) open.library.ubc.ca/media/download… Code and data: github.com/aw814/WikiGap

WikiResearch @WikiResearch

10 months ago

"WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions" arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24195

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2 months ago

"Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024" emerald.com/dlp/article/do… "extreme and persistent gender imbalance [...] gaps peak in the Middle Ages (7.84:1) and remain high in contemporary figures (5.74:1)"

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3 months ago

"Nature of sources cited in German-language Wikipedia pages on German Christmas Markets" researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publication… Mainly "newspaper articles and websites run by market organisers or destination marketing bodies"; "formal publications, and archival sources are used less frequently"

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3 months ago

"while global (physiological) circadian patterns in Wikipedia editing behaviour exist, each linguistic community exhibits its unique socially-induced temporal trends." arxiv.org/html/2603.0129… e.g. DE, FR edits peak during weekends, but ES, PT, IT, VI are higher on weekdays

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WikiResearch @WikiResearch

3 months ago

"Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language" doi.org/10.1007/s00146… (Critique of a "tragic contradiction" affecting the "utopian project for a new programming language" underlying Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia)