Research:Index

Projects

Wikipedia Inconsistency Detection

Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition/Report
WikiMedia Feature Deployment Impact on User Bot and Scripts
How LLMs impact knowledge production processes
Knowledge Gaps Index/Measurement/Readers Survey 2024
Research:Knowledge Gaps Index/Measurement/Readers Survey 2024
The wikipedist community in Portuguese language. A new social Portrait
Collaborative Translation Research
Lost Without Translation: Estimation and Implications of Invisible Languages on Wikipedia

A Quantitative Perspective on Collective Memory with Wikipedia Affordances
Understanding How Editors Use Machine Translation in Wikipedia: A Case Study in African Languages
Editorial protocols and cultural pluralization of knowledge on Wikipedia
A Whole New World - Integration of New Editors into the Serbian Wikipedia Community
Reducing the gender gap in AfD discussions: an evidence scoring approach
Social Memory about Chileans in Wikipedia
Effect of the Singapore data center on unique devices accessing Wikipedia
The Practice of Being an AI Participant Through Data Contribution (interview study)

Incubator and language representation across Wikimedia projects
Disparities in Online Rule Enforcement
Content Translation language imbalances
Surveying readers and contributors to Wikipedia
Newcomer Experience Pilot Project- Thank You Pages and Thank You Banners
Wikipedia and the Nation's Story: Towards equity in knowledge production
Develop a ML-based service to predict reverts on Wikipedia
Wikistories Early Adopters Research

Wikipedia Edit Types/Python package
Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource Projects
Exploring Knowledge repositories on Water resources in India
Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian Languages
Analyzing sources on Wikipedia
"Newcomer Experience" pilot project - Advancement Email campaigns
Section Translation Post-Improvements Testing
Wikistories Africa Research (Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa)

A Brief Analysis of Bengali Wikipedia’s Journey to 100,000 Articles/ko
A Brief Analysis of Bengali Wikipedia’s Journey to 100,000 Articles/ja
A Brief Analysis of Bengali Wikipedia’s Journey to 100,000 Articles/te
A Brief Analysis of Bengali Wikipedia’s Journey to 100,000 Articles/da
Modeling collective meaning
A Brief Analysis of Bengali Wikipedia’s Journey to 100,000 Articles/hu
Homepage content suggestions in the KaiOS app, 2021
Prioritization of Wikipedia Articles/Importance/Vital Articles

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• The Wikimedia Research newsletter: the latest updates on wiki research
• Research Showcase videos
• Research codex: a living summary of published research about collaborative systems, designed to be useful to working Wikimedians. You can edit it!
• Data: An overview of Wikimedia's data sources
• People: who's doing what in wiki research
• Code libraries and research tools
• Bibliographic reference pools
• Conferences, workshops and events
• Works about Wikimedia projects known to Wikidata
• Wiki research discussion groups
• The wiki-research-l mailing list
• The Research Fund
• The 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!

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