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Getting started
If you're new to Wikimedia research and data, these resources can help you get started:
- Research:Data - Overview of data sources and access methods
- Research:Data_introduction - Explanation of key concepts and data domains
- Beginner PAWS notebooks and tutorials:
Bibliographies and References
- Wiki Research Bibliography - a bibliography of research publications.
- List of academic studies about Wikipedia (en) on Wikipedia
- Academic studies of health information on Wikipedia (en) on Wikipedia
- Wikibibliographie ENCYCLEN (fr/en) - especially see a list (archive) compiled by Institut français de l'éducation (fr)
- strategy:Wikimedia-pedia/Research
- Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments, review by Finn Årup Nielsen[1]
- WikiPapers, a wiki research literature compilation (conference papers, journal articles, theses, datasets and tools)
- Works about Wikimedia projects known to Wikidata
- Mapping Wikipedia (en) - various maps using geocoded Wikipedia pages by floatingsheep
Communities and Groups
- Social Research Collaborations
- dbpedia - Querying Wikipedia like a Database (archive) (en)
- Semantic Wiki Interest Group (archive)
- Critical Point of View (CPoV) (archive)
- Wikipedia Research Initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India)
Conferences and Events
- Main article: Research:Events
- Wikimania
- The Web Conference
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
- Wiki Workshop
- Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
- ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- OpenSym
- CoNLL
- ICDM
- WSDM
- AAAI
- ACM FAT
Research Tools: Statistics, Visualization, etc.
- See also: 4useful statistics about users and pages, and has interesting features like differentiating between types of edits.
- Wikistats
- WikiXRay A Python tool collecting scripts to automate the quantitative analysis of any language version of Wikipedia. Mainly developed to support the analyses included in Felipe Ortega's PhD. thesis "Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis"
- StatMediaWiki, a statistical analysis tool for wikis
- Related pages:
- en:Wikipedia:Computer help desk
- en:Wikipedia:Scripts - mainly scripts to activate wikilinks in various IRC programs
- en:Wikipedia:Tools - various types of tools: bookmarklets, user scripts, etc.
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject User CSS - a similar project
- DMI Tools pertaining to Wikipedia
- User retention analysis
Wikimedia Research Links
- Artikel in Information Wissenschaft & Praxis (de, 2004)
- Search for 'Wikipedia+Research at our mailing lists
- Selbstreflexion_der_Wikipedia (de)
- /Bibliographie - bibliography (mostly moved to # Wiki Research Bibliography)
- Wikibooks:Wikiresearch (en)
- Wikipedistik (de)
- Ethically researching Wikipedia
Style guides
- Product Analytics style guide: code conventions for SQL, Python, and R. Consider adopting them to make your work more consistent and easier for others in the movement to read!
Miscellaneous Links
- [1] technical industry collaboration methods in science
- ↑ Nielsen, Finn Årup (24 January 2019). Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments (PDF).