Research:Index

Projects

Successful Newcomers Survey 2025
Guided article and section creation
Guide for Indigenous North American identity on Wikipedia
Guidance for NPOV Research on Wikipedia
Theoretical perspectives on editor motivations
Readers' research 2025
Visualizing Content-Gaps through Languages (Orphan Articles)
Opportunities for Supporting Community-Scale Communication

Guide for Indigenous North American identity on Wikipedia
Impact of Source Access on Knowledge Production
Languages Onboarding Experiment 2024 - Executive Summary
Develop a working definition for moderation activity and moderators
DEM-Debate
Wikipedia during 2024 Elections
Investigating the 2021–present registration decline
Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition/Report

Knowledge Gaps Index/Measurement/Language gap content metrics
The Politics of Memory
Codifying Digital Behavior Around the World: A Socio-Legal Study of the Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct
Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education: Mapping Research, Systematization, and Analysis of Experiences
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

Incubator and language representation across Wikimedia projects
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
Grounding NPOV pillar in post-censored information ecology

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

Resources

This section includes useful resources for Wikimedia researchers such as:

• 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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