Follow Wikimedia Research

You can keep up with news and research activities of the Research team, as well as other research within the Wikimedia Foundation and the community, through the following channels:

WMF Research Report: A biannual report on our team's recent activities and directions.

@WikiResearch: The Twitter handle for the Wikimedia research community, covering new studies, tools, datasets, and events hot off the press.

Research on the Wikimedia Blog: Announcements and reports about Wikimedia Research projects as well as research news from across the movement. For blogposts before September 2018, please see the old blog.

Research Newsletter: A monthly newsletter edited by volunteer contributors, featuring the most recent peer-reviewed research on Wikimedia projects.

Research mailing list: A public mailing list for discussions of research on Wikimedia projects.

Press

Selected media coverage of our work. For media inquiries, please contact press [at] wikimedia.org.

• Colaner, S. (2019). How Wikimedia is using machine learning to spot missing citations. VentureBeat. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
• Vincent, J. (2018). Machine learning is helping computers spot arguments online before they happen. The Verge. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
• Melendez, S. (2018). Scientists are building a detector for conversations likely to go bad. Fast.Company. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
• Davey, M. (2018). Wikipedia: the most cited authors revealed to be three Australian scientists. The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
• Matsakis, L. (2018). The most-cited authors of Wikipedia had no idea. Wired. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
• Guglielmi, G. (2018). Wikipedia’s top-cited scholarly articles — revealed. Nature. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
• Moon, M. (2018). Wikipedia explains how those late-night reading binges happen. Engadget. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
• Larousserie, D. (2017). Les « Open citations », des savoirs partagés librement sur Internet. Le Monde. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Singh Chawla, D. (2017). Now free: citation data from 14 million papers, and more might come. Science. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Schiermeier, Q. (2017). Initiative aims to break science's citation paywall. Nature News. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Molteni, M. (2017). Tearing Down Science's Citation Paywall, One Link at a Time. Wired. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Smellie, S. (2017). Inside Wikipedia’s Attempt to Use Artificial Intelligence to Combat Harassment. Motherboard. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Simonite, T. (2017). Collection of 13,500 Nastygrams Could Advance War on Trolls. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Sawers., P. (2016) On Wikipedia, all languages are not created equal; but that could be changing. Venture Beat. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Larousserie, D. (2016). Wikipédia, quinze ans de recherches. Le Monde. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Metz, C. (2015) Wikipedia Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors. Wired. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Wikipedia launches edit-checking artificial intelligence, BBC. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Simonite, T. (2015), Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Wikipedia se dote d’une intelligence artificielle pour mieux repérer le vandalisme. Le Monde. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
• Wikipedias neue KI erkennt schlechte Artikel-Bearbeitungen. Wired Germany. Retrieved 29 November 2017.