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[edit] Recent research SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
2024-11-18
And other recent publications.
In the media Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names
2024-11-18
Publisher versus intermediary, bias versus verifiability, and probing questions about Gwern's personal finances.
Recent research "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
2024-10-19
And other searchings and findings.
Recent research Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
2024-09-26
And other recent research publications.
Recent research Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment
2024-09-04
And other new research findings
Recent research STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems
2024-08-14
And other findings.
Recent research Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
2024-07-04
And other new publications on systemic bias and other topics.
Recent research ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
2024-06-08
And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.
Recent research New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
2024-04-25
And other recent research publications
Recent research "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
2024-03-29
And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia
Recent research Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
2024-01-31
And other new research publications.
Recent research "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
2023-12-24
And other new research publications.
Recent research Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
2023-11-20
And other new research findings.
Recent research How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
2023-11-06
And other new research findings.
Recent research Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
2023-10-03
And other new research publications
Recent research The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
2023-08-31
And other recent research publications.
Recent research Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
2023-07-17
And various other research on large language models and Wikipedia
News and notes Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
2023-07-03
... and a new Elections Committee
Recent research Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
2023-05-22
And other new research results.
Recent research Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
2023-05-08
And other new research publications.
Recent research Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
2023-04-03
And a dataset of article revisions to provide a corpus for promotional content.
News and notes Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
2023-04-03
Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.
Recent research "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
2023-03-09
And other new research publications.
Recent research Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
2023-02-04
And other new research publications.
Technology report Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
2023-01-01
Wikifunctions might drag it down.
Recent research Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
2023-01-01
And other new research findings.
Recent research Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
2022-11-28
And other research findings.
From the archives Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
2022-11-28
Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.
Recent research Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?
2022-10-31
And other new research publications.
Recent research How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future
2022-09-30
And other research news.
Recent research A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
2022-08-01
And other new research findings.
Recent research Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
2022-06-26
Tables "like to socialize" and "share genes": ooh la la!
Recent research Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images
2022-04-24
And other new research findings
Recent research Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures
2022-03-27
And other research publications.
Recent research How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
2022-02-27
And other recent research publications.
Recent research Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
2022-01-30
And other research results
Recent research STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph
2021-12-28
And other new research results
Recent research Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
2021-11-29
And other recent research publications
Recent research Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
2021-10-31
And other new research results
Recent research Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
2021-09-26
And other new research publications
Disinformation report Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
2021-09-26
Did German Wikipedia love parliaments a little too much? Plus fake-bacon and a ponzi scheme.
Recent research IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
2021-08-29
IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cycles, and world heritage: A monthly overview of new research results
Recent research Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility
2021-07-25
And other recent research publications
Recent research Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
2021-06-27
Summaries of 26 new research publications
Recent research 10%–30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
2021-03-28
And other recent research results
Recent research Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism
2021-02-28
And other new research publications
Recent research Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers do
2021-01-31
Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers: And other new research results
News and notes 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021
2021-01-31
Who else but Ser Amantio di Nicolao?
Recent research Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
2020-12-28
Six million talk page threads analyzed, and other research.
News and notes Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent
2020-12-28
New laws in the US and Europe might enable trolls; sad admin milestone for English Wikipedia, or not?
Recent research Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
2020-11-29
And other new research publications
News and notes Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"
2020-11-29
Arbitration Committee elections begin.
Recent research OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
2020-11-01
Ortega's hypothesis was right! (If you start with the right definitions and assumptions.)
News and notes Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking
2020-11-01
Branding pause, birthday.
In the media Murder, politics, religion, health and books
2020-11-01
A possible conspiracy and 2 infodemics!
In the media WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
2020-09-27
A celebrity quiz, Scots, and a Crypto-hating Wikipedia editor
Recent research Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
2020-08-30
And other new research results
Recent research Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia
2020-08-02
And other new research publications
Recent research Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
2020-06-28
And other new research publications
News and notes Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
2020-06-28
Plus Swedish biographies and the big oops!
Recent research Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
2020-05-31
New results from academic research
Recent research Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
2020-04-26
And other new research results.
Recent research Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia
2020-03-29
New research publications on "the fear of being erased" and other topics.
Recent research Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone
2020-03-01
And other new research results
Recent research How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?
2020-01-27
And other new research publications.
Recent research Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
2019-12-27
15 recent papers, and other research news
Recent research Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
2019-11-29
And other new research publications.
Recent research Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
2019-10-31
And other new research publications
Recent research Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
2019-09-30
And other recent research publications
In the media A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?
2019-09-30
The internet may not be as stable as it seems
Recent research Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
2019-08-30
A roundup of many recent publications examining Wikpedia's gender gaps in participation and content, and their possible reasons
Recent research Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
2019-07-31
And other new research publications
Recent research What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
2019-06-30
And other recent research publications.
Recent research Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?
2019-05-31
And other new research publications
Recent research Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
2019-04-30
And other recent research results
Recent research Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
2019-03-31
And other recent research results
Recent research Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers
2019-02-28
When watchers want the whole truth, they wind up with the wiki! And Cultural Context Content comes out of a complete cartography.
Recent research Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?
2019-01-31
And other new research publications.
Recent research Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize
2018-12-01
And other new research results.
Recent research How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
2018-10-01
And other recent research papers.
Recent research Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
2018-08-30
Readers prefer the AI's version 40% of the time – but it still suffers from hallucinations.
Recent research Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons
2018-07-31
And other recent findings, plus a roundup of research presentations at Wikimania.
Recent research How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry
2018-06-29
And: Wikipedians 'driven by a sense of mission', according to researchers.
Recent research Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
2018-02-20
There might be good things about an edit war.
Recent research Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?
2018-02-05
Also: Polish quality, Russian political mythologization, and multilingual analyses
Recent research French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"; quality comparisons across languages; perceptions of credibility
2017-12-18
French medical articles have "high rate of veracity": And other recent research publications.
Recent research Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
2017-11-24
And other new research publications.
Recent research Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
2017-09-25
Plus the latest research publications.
Recent research Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
2017-09-06
A list of recent research publications on various topics
Recent research Wikipedia can increase local tourism by 9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
2017-08-05
Local tourism gains +9% when Wikipedia articles are improved; significant improvements in predicting article quality with deep learning; recent editor behavior is a strong predictor of content quality
Recent research The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers
2017-07-15
A closer look at the research that found that the 2013 Snowden revelations coincided with a significant drop of pageviews for privacy-sensitive Wikipedia articles
Recent research Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?
2017-06-23
A researcher applies Marxist critiques of political economy to investigate whether gamification, a culture of altruism, and other anti-corporatist influences on peer production can create a sustainable gift economy in project like Wikipedia.
Recent research Wikipedia bots fight – or do they?; personality and attitudes to Wikipedia; large expert review experiment
2017-06-09
Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press – but are they real?; personality and attitudes to Wikipedia; large expert review experiment
Recent research Special issue: Wikipedia in education
2017-02-27
This month's edition focuses on research about the role of Wikipedia in education, with reviews of recently published articles covering various angles of the topic.
Recent research Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia
2017-01-17
And several other research papers reviewed and summarized
Recent research Privacy risks as perceived by Tor users and Wikipedians
2016-12-22
One study and several abstracts: Privacy and Tor, and several other studies
Recent research Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia
2016-11-04
A recap of recent research in our realm
Recent research Wikipedia Dispute Index a mixed bag; how motivations differ among contributor roles
2016-10-14
A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report: We explore the study, which sought insights from Wikipedia metadata into global events
Recent research AI-generated articles and research ethics; anonymous edits and vandalism fighting ethics
2016-09-06
Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism: One study encounters critique of its ethics from Wikipedians; another critiques the ethics employed by Wikipedia
Recent research Easier navigation via better wikilinks
2016-08-04
Plus: new Wiki Studies journal, Wikipedia usage on Twitter and more
Recent research Using deep learning to predict article quality; search engine helps schoolkids navigate Chinese Wikipedia; talk page sentiment
2016-07-21
Using deep learning to predict article quality: Plus navigating the Chinese Wikipedia, and talkpage sentiment
Recent research English as Wikipedia's lingua franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
2016-05-28
English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies: Round-up of recent Wikipedia research
Recent research The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?
2016-05-02
Making sense of Wikipedia's social network
Recent research "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles
2016-04-01
Current research about Wikimedia projects.
Recent research Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?
2016-03-02
Current academic research about the encyclopedia and related projects.
Recent research Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling
2016-01-27
Current research involving Wikipedia.
Recent research Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
2016-01-06
Current academic research on Wikipedia and related projects
Recent research Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
2015-11-25
Scholarly research about Wikipedia and related projects.
Recent research Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
2015-10-28
New research about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.
Recent research Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?
2015-09-30
A look at newly published Wikipedia research.
Recent research OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
2015-08-26
OpenSym 2015 report: A look at the research presented at the OpenSym 2015 conference.
Recent research Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
2015-07-29
An article argues that Wikipedia displays some key characteristics of a collective intelligence process.
Recent research How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
2015-06-24
One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.
Recent research Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
2015-05-27
Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.
Blog How many women edit Wikipedia?
2015-05-06
This section was published in error and has been removed from circulation.
Recent research Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
2015-03-25
The authors attempt to answer the question "Who are the most important people of all times?" Their findings clearly show that different Wikipedias give different prominence to different individuals.
Recent research Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
2015-02-25
A monthly roundup of Wikimedia-related research
Recent research Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content
2015-01-28
A paper presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition last year presents an automated method to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theatre plays.
Recent research Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting
2014-12-31
A paper titled "Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education" uses the technology acceptance model to shed light on faculty's (of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) views of Wikipedia as a teaching tool.
Recent research Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
2014-11-26
The monthly roundup of research related to Wikimedia.
Recent research Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
2014-10-29
In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.
Recent research 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
2014-09-24
0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.
Recent research Power users and diversity in WikiProjects; the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies
2014-06-25
Power users and diversity in WikiProjects: In a recent paper, Jacob Solomon and Rick Wash investigate the question of sustainability in online communities by analysing trends in the growth of WikiProjects.
Recent research Predicting which article you will edit next; reader research
2014-05-28
Predicting which article you will edit next: Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; "Chinese-language time zones" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.
Recent research Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Wikipedia
2014-04-30
Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google: Can you predict the number of seasonal influenza-like illness in the U.S. using data from Wikipedia?
Recent research Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped
2014-03-26
Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates: Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.
Recent research CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism
2014-02-26
CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism: The monthly roundup of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee.
Recent research Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years
2014-01-29
An author experimented with "a promising type of assignment in formal translator training which involves translating and publishing Wikipedia articles", in three courses with students at the University of Warsaw.
Recent research Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments
2013-12-25
Analyzing edits to the-then 46 largest Wikipedias between July 9 and August 8, 2013, a study identified a set of about 8,000 contributors with a global user account who have edited more than one of these language versions in that time frame.
Recent research Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia
2013-12-04
Wikipedia works on the efforts of unpaid volunteers who choose to donate their time to advance the cause of free knowledge. This phenomenon, as trivial as it may sound to those acquainted with Wikipedia inner workings, has always puzzled economists and social scientists alike, in that standard Economic theory would not predict that such enterprises would thrive without any form of remuneration.
Recent research User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. YouTube
2013-10-30
User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube: Laura Stein, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, has concluded that, based on her comparison of user policy documents (including the Terms of Service) of YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia, Wikipedia offers the highest level of participation power overall.
Recent research Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?
2013-09-25
A conference paper makes a rather serious claim: "We find a surprisingly large number of editors who change their behavior and begin focusing more on a particular controversial topic once they are promoted to administrator status."
Recent research WikiSym 2013 retrospective
2013-08-28
98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.
Recent research Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview
2013-07-31
An ArXiv preprint titled "Highlighting entanglement of cultures via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles" is about the Wikipedia articles on individuals and their position in the hyperlink network of the articles in each Wikipedia language edition, considering the whole hyperlink network.
Recent research Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets
2013-06-26
A comparative work by T. Yasseri., A. Spoerri, M. Graham and J. Kertész looks at the 100 most controversial topics in 10 language versions of Wikipedia, and tries to make sense of the similarities and differences in these lists.
Recent research Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?
2013-05-27
An article in Library Review offers a much-needed comparison of data from a population of editors outside the English Wikipedia.
Recent research Sentiment monitoring; Wikipedians and academics favor the same papers; UNESCO and systemic bias; How ideas flow on Wikiversity
2013-04-29
Sentiment monitoring; UNESCO and systemic bias; and more: A report on an online service which was created to conduct real-time monitoring of Wikipedia articles of companies, and more.
Recent research "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages
2013-03-25
A paper presented at last month's CSCW Conference observes that "Mass collaboration systems are often characterized as unstructured organizations lacking rule and order", yet Wikipedia has a well developed body of policies to support it as an organization.
Recent research Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers; EPOV instead of NPOV
2013-02-25
Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers: "Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Production" by Jeff Loveland (a historian of encyclopedias) and Joseph Reagle situates Wikipedia within the context of encyclopedic production historically, arguing that the features that many claim to be unique about Wikipedia actually have roots in encyclopedias of the past.
Recent research Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics
2013-01-28
A special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist is devoted to "open collaboration".
Recent research Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
2012-12-31
The gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in its immediate aftermath, and a look back at Wikipedians' participation in the January protests against SOPA and PIPA.
Recent research Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
2012-11-26
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
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.
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 New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'
2012-08-27
A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee and republished as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.
Recent research Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; best wiki paper award
2012-07-30
From the modeling of social dynamics in a collaborative environment to why the number of Wikipedia readers rises while the number of editors doesn't.
Recent research Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere
2012-06-25
Recent research Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph
2012-05-28
Recent research Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more
2012-04-30
Recent research Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature
2012-03-26
News and notes Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring
2012-03-26
Recent research Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative
2012-02-27
Recent research Language analyses examine power structure and political slant; Wikipedia compared to commercial databases
2012-01-30
Recent research Psychiatrists: Wikipedia better than Britannica; spell-checking Wikipedia; Wikipedians smart but fun; structured biological data
2011-12-26
Technology report Foundation appears correct to back improved smartphone support; and how a Reddit slip meant no-one could read anything for thirty minutes
2011-11-28
Recent research Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation
2011-11-28
In the news The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges.
2011-11-07
Recent research WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified
2011-10-31
In the news Uproar over Italian shutdown, the varying reception of BLP mischief, and Wikipedia's doctor-evangelist
2011-10-10
Recent research Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews
2011-09-26
News and notes Ushahidi research tool announced, Citizendium five years on: success or failure?, and Wikimedia DC officially recognised
2011-09-19
In the news Wikipedia: yesterday's news? Calls for women, doctors, and scholars of humanities; Wales makes Wikimedia work "look easy"
2011-09-19
In the news Britannica and Wikipedia like "apples and chairs"; should anyone who's anyone get an article?; and why fighting and barriers to editing may be useful after all
2011-09-05
Recent research Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety
2011-08-29
In the news Consensus of Wikipedia authors questioned about Shakespeare authorship; 10 biggest edit wars on Wikipedia; brief news
2011-08-01
Recent research Talk page interactions; Wikipedia at the Open Knowledge Conference; Summer of Research
2011-07-25
In the news Britannica and Wikipedia compared; Putin award criticized; possible journalistic sockpuppeting
2011-07-11
Technology report June report: Virginia datacenter, parser, user profiles; WikiLove 1.0; brief news
2011-07-04
In the news WikiLove roll-out; €25,000 in damages for being removed from Wikipedia; brief news
2011-07-04
News and notes ArbCom database theft; WikiLove to roll out on the English Wikipedia; brief news
2011-06-27
News and notes WMF Board election results; Indian campus ambassadors gear up; Wikimedia UK plans; Malayalam Wikisource CD; brief news
2011-06-20
In the news Wikipedia could become trusted medical resource; neologism controversy; news in brief
2011-06-20
News and notes Wikipedians 90% male and largely altruist; 800 public policy students add 8.8 million bytes; brief news
2011-06-13
In the news Revere, Palin and Colbert generate activity; British Wikipedia "cleanser"; brief news
2011-06-13
News and notes Board resolution on controversial content; WMF Summer of Research; indigenous workshop; brief news
2011-06-06
News and notes ArbCom referendum goes live; US National Archives residency; financial planning; brief news
2011-05-30
In the news Collaboration with academia; world heritage; xkcd; eG8 summit; ISP subpoena; brief news
2011-05-30
In the news Death of the expert?; superinjunctions saga continues; World Heritage status petitioned and debated; brief news
2011-05-23
News and notes Geographical distribution of Wikipedia edits; Sue Gardner interviewed; brief news
2011-05-16
In the news Education minister's speech copied from Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales interviewed; brief news
2011-05-16
News and notes More research on newbie editors; Baidu plagiarism; bin Laden coverage; brief news
2011-05-09
In the news Billionaire trying to sue Wikipedians; "Critical Point of View" book published; World Bank contest; brief news
2011-05-09
News and notes Picture of the Year voting begins; Internet culture covered in Sweden and consulted in Russia; brief news
2011-05-02
News and notes Survey of French Wikipedians; first Wikipedian-in-Residence at Smithsonian; brief news
2011-04-25
In the news Low-hanging fruit and sustainability; Qwiki on iPad; sceptic critic; brief news
2011-04-25
News and notes Commons milestone; newbie contributions assessed; German community to decide on €200,000 budget; brief news
2011-04-18
In the news Wikipedia accurate on US politics, plagiarized in court, and compared to Glass Bead Game; brief news
2011-04-18
Recent research Research literature surveys; drug reliability; editor roles; BLPs; Muhammad debate analyzed
2011-04-11
In the news Academic contributions; Jimmy Wales weighs in on murder trial controversy; brief news
2011-04-04
News and notes Berlin conference highlights relation between chapters and Foundation; annual report; brief news
2011-03-28
In the news Sue Gardner interviewed; Imperial College student society launched; Indian languages; brief news
2011-03-28
Technology report What is: localisation?; the proposed "personal image filter" explained; and more in brief
2011-03-21
News and notes NPG copyright irony; Citizendium's finances; Credo accounts donated; brief news
2011-03-21
In the news Ward Cunningham's rich child; Indian donations; data mining Wikipedia; brief news
2011-03-21
News and notes Foundation reports editor trends, technology plans and communication changes; brief news
2011-03-14
News and notes Foundation looking for "storyteller" and research fellows; new GLAM newsletter; brief news
2011-03-07
News and notes Newbies and patrollers: "Every now and then a nun or a tourist wanders in front of the rifle sights"
2011-02-28
In the news Egypt and Jordan likely candidates for Wikimedia office; Sanger interview; brief news
2011-02-28
In the news Egyptian revolution and Wikimania 2008; Jimmy Wales' move to the UK, Africa and systemic bias; brief news
2011-02-21
In the news Wikipedia wrongly blamed for Super Bowl gaffe; "digital natives" naive about Wikipedia; brief news
2011-02-14
News and notes New General Counsel hired; reuse of Google Art Project debated; GLAM newsletter started; news in brief
2011-02-07
News and notes Executive Director travels; DMCA takedowns; fellowship clarifications; brief news
2011-01-31
News and notes Wikimedia fellow working on cultural collaborations; video animation about Wikipedia; brief news
2011-01-24
In the news The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited; Wikipedia still failing to fail; brief news
2011-01-24
News and notes Anniversary celebrations; Foundation reports; local language problems; brief news
2011-01-17
In the news Anniversary coverage continues; Thai government translates Wikipedia; brief news
2011-01-17
In the news Anniversary coverage begins; Wikipedia as new layer of information authority; inclusionist project
2011-01-10
News and notes Record fundraiser celebrated and debated; Board-appointed Trustees; brief news
2011-01-03
News and notes Director of Technical Operations hired; South Korean mayor sues; brief news
2010-12-27
In the news Confusion about Wikileaks continues, Wikipedia vs. Britannica in India, and more
2010-12-13
News and notes ArbCom tally pending; Pediapress renderer; fundraiser update; unreferenced BLP drive
2010-12-06
GLAM-WIKI London British Museum hosts two days of talks between Wikimedia and the cultural sector
2010-12-06
Interview Interview with Johanna Niesyto and Nathaniel Tkacz from "Critical Point of View"
2010-11-29
In the news Fundraising banners continue to provoke; plagiarism charges against congressional climate change report
2010-11-29
News and notes No further Bundesarchiv image donations; Dutch and German awards; anniversary preparations
2010-11-22
News and notes Fundraisers start for Wikipedia and Citizendium; controversial content and leadership
2010-11-15
Arbitration report No cases this week; Amendments filed on Climate Change and Date Delinking; Motion passed on EEML
2010-11-15
Arbitration report No cases this week; Date delinking sanctions reduced for one party; History ban extended
2010-11-08
News and notes Foundation's finances, geodata milestone, interim counsel, museum conference
2010-11-01
In the news Airplane construction with Wikipedia, lessons from the strategy project, logic over rhetoric
2010-11-01
Arbitration report Arb resignation during plagiarism discussion; election RfC closing in 2 days
2010-11-01
In the news Good faith vs. bad faith, climate change, court citations, weirdest medieval fact, brief news
2010-10-25
News and notes Board resolutions, fundraiser challenge, traffic report, ten thousand good articles, and more
2010-10-11
In the news Free culture conference, "The Register" retracts accusations, students blog about Wikipedia, and more
2010-10-11
In the news Spanish police pursues BLP vandals, Jimbo interviewed, advice for experts and spammers
2010-10-04
News and notes French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more
2010-09-27
In the news Rush Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoax, Public Policy Initiative, Nature cites Wikipedia
2010-09-20
News and notes Page-edit stats, French National Library partnership, Mass page blanking, Jimbo on Pending changes
2010-09-13
In the news WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information
2010-09-06
In the news Agatha Christie spoiled, Wales on Wikileaks, University students improve Wikipedia, and more
2010-08-30
News and notes Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more
2010-08-23
News and notes Book publisher apologizes for plagiarizing photos by Wikipedians, brief news
2010-08-16
News and notes FBI requests takedown of seal, Public Policy advisors and ambassadors, Cary Bass leaving, new Research Committee
2010-08-09
Technology report Major MediaWiki release, password security, vulnerable MediaWiki installations, and more
2010-08-02
News and notes Canadian political edits, Swedish royal wedding, Italian "right of reply" bill, Chapter reports
2010-08-02
In the news Gardner and Sanger on why people edit Wikipedia, Fancy and frugal reading devices, Medical article assessed
2010-08-02
In the news Wikipedia leads in customer satisfaction, Google Translate and India, Citizendium transition, Jimbo's media accolade
2010-07-26
News and notes Politician defends editing own article, Google translation, Row about a small Wikipedia
2010-07-19
In the news Wikimania, Former Wikimedia employee looks back, Editing controversial articles
2010-07-19
In the news Wikipedia controlled by pedophiles, left-wing trolls, Islamofascists and Communist commandos?
2010-06-28
News and notes Collaboration with the British Museum and in Serbia, Interaction with researchers, and more
2010-06-21
In the news Wikipedia better than Britannica, Pending changes as a victory of tradition, and more
2010-06-21
News and notes Pending changes goes live, first state-funded Wikipedia project concludes, brief news
2010-06-14
In the news Hoaxes in France and at university, Wikipedia used in Indian court, Is Wikipedia a cult?, and more
2010-06-14
News and notes "Pending changes" trial, Chief hires, British Museum prizes, Interwiki debate, and more
2010-06-07
News and notes Berlin WikiConference, Brooklyn Museum & Google.org collaborations, review backlog removed, 1 billion edits
2010-04-19
In the news Study of featured article quality, Facebook's integration of Wikipedia, and more!
2010-04-19
News and notes Studying German flagged revisions, French library agreement, German court case
2010-04-12
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
In the news Studies on collaboration and student usage, Main Page drives traffic to Time.com
2010-03-15
In the news Labor squeeze revisited, journalist consultations, philosophy bungles, and more
2010-02-15
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