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/Rese…
ALT Wikifunctions-favicon (by NGC 54, Jon Harald Søby, Stevenliuyi, cc-by-sa-4.0)
Randomized experiment:
Using a LLM (ChatGPT 5 Instant) in a Wikipedia editing assignment improved undergraduates' "linguistic polish", but had no significant effect on content quality and verifiability (i.e. citation coverage and reliability of sources) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20320…
"Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages" arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31136 (Data and code: github.com/gerritq/mcn )
"SLMs [small language models] outperform LLMs on monolingual CND"
ALT Figure 2: Dataset examples from the Wikipedia articles “London” and “Avatar (2009 film)” [from Quaremba et al. 2026, CC BY 4.0]
"Institutionalization and automation of [newcomer adaption] processes in Wikimedia projects" managementpapers.polsl.pl/wp…
"A clear correlation was observed between the number of users registering and the number of people actively editing on Wikipedia."
ALT "Forms of support and activation of newcomers in the studied language versions of Wikipedia" (Table 1 from Skolik 2026)
"Orthographic Practices in the Alemannic Wikipedia" portalcris.vdu.lt/server/api…
(thesis, finds that the project "promotes broad and inclusive norms and guidelines that allow for multiple, diverse orthographic practices" for the German dialects it covers)
ALT Table 3. Variability of spelling between dialects (from Verbitsky 2026)
"Designing for Human–AI Collaboration in Open Knowledge Work":
Lessons from the failure of the Wikimedia Foundation's "Computer Aided Tagging" tool on Wikimedia Commons arxiv.org/html/2605.30800v1
ALT "Fig. 2. The CAT interface displaying unverified suggested tags for an example image file" (from Yu and McDonald 2026, CC BY 4.0)
ALT Excerpt from section '5 Discussion' (from Yu and McDonald 2026, CC BY 4.0)
"Monitoring the gender gap in the coverage of biology professors on Wikipedia" doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.25…
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"
ALT Number of new Wikipedia biographies for female and male biology faculty [from Alvarez-Ponce and Iyengar 2026, CC BY 4.0] rspb.2025.2566.f005
"@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/socarxiv/sh…
"@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/socarxiv/dk…
ALT Feeling thermometer ratings of online platforms for learning and accessing knowledge (Global [WIkipedia] Readers Survey 2025) [Ft_platform_barchart_2025, by YLiou (WMF), CC BY-SA 4.0]
ALT Urbanity of Respondents to the 2025 (Wikipedia) Global Readers Survey [Demo_urbanity_tri_barchart, by YLiou (WMF), CC BY-SA 4.0]
ALT Share of readers identifying solely as men by project (2025 [Wikipedia] Global Readers Survey) [Demo_men_x_project_2025, by YLiou (WMF), CC BY-SA 4.0]
"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)
ALT "Figure 1: Comparison between our method and existing methods. The WikiMAG multi-agent framework enables three types of structured content in text generation: narrative, timeline, and table, where red represents the outline, black represents the narrative type, blue represents the timeline type, and green represents the table type." (from Kang et al. 2026)
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/Rese…
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
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
"The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age" (book review) ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/arti…
"Wikipedia as epistemic infrastructure represents a new order of knowledge production"
"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/10.1145/3…
"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/wikiped… (post by @martinmonperrus )
"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/do…
Code and data: github.com/aw814/WikiGap
"WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions" arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24195
ALT The WikiGap interface embeds cross-lingual facts into English Wikipedia via five key design elements (D1–D5), supporting in-place access, traceability, and multilingual engagement (Figure 1 from Wang et al. 2025)
"Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024" emerald.com/dlp/article/doi/…
"extreme and persistent gender imbalance [...] gaps peak in the Middle Ages (7.84:1) and remain high in contemporary figures (5.74:1)"