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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…
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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…
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"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"
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"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."
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"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)
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"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
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Honored to have received the this award for our demo "Wikipedia Community Health Dashboards", check them out here: vitalsigns.wmcloud.org/

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Congrats to the winners of this year's best paper, best dataset paper, best poster paper, and best Web Agent demo/poster 🎉 #ICWSM2026
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"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"
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"@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…

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"@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…

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Results from the Wikimedia Foundation's 2025 global survey of Wikipedia readers meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rese…
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"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)
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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
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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
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"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"

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"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…
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Wikimedia Foundation invites feedback on grant proposals for its 2026 Research Fund (until April 21) lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkit…
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"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 )
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"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
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"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)"
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