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Research news on @Wikipedia @Wikidata @Wikimedia, hot off the press. Volunteer-curated by @tilmanbayer & @mad_astronaut. Read our newsletter for full coverage
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Joined December 2011
In the latest issue of our monthly newsletter: ▸ Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate? ▸ Eight projects awarded a total of $316k in Wikimedia Research Fund grants and more: https://t.co/avkfnYXLV9
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The new AI-generated #Grokipedia justifies truth claims with user-generated and civic orga sources, in contrast to #Wikipedia's heavy reliance on peer-reviewed scholarly citations. But, AI-generated encyclopedias follow a "scaling-law for knowledge sourcing" that shows a linear
arxiv.org
A quarter century ago, Wikipedia's decentralized, crowdsourced, and consensus-driven model replaced the centralized, expert-driven, and authority-based standard for encyclopedic knowledge...
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"Perceived Quality of Health Information on Wikipedia: A Sociodemographic Perspective" how do different demographic groups assess health content on Wikipedia? (Ju et al, 2025) https://t.co/PIQyG9kz4s
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Newly published #discussionpaper and 1st one of our special collection "Wikidata across the Humanities" 💫 📰Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata 🖊️Claire Dupin de Beyssat Read the paper at https://t.co/xDfuZYT7nr
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"Seasonality Discovery of Large-Scale Wikipedia Page View Time Series Dataset", analysis shows that pageviews of popular Wikipedia pages are less seasonal than those of less popular articles. (Chen et al, 2025) paper: https://t.co/GXYbnSQHAH data: https://t.co/cb2CqxRwCx
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"WikiTextGraph: A Python tool for parsing multilingual Wikipedia text and graph extraction" (@paschalisag, @suarez_juanluis and @G_A_Schwartz, 2025) paper: https://t.co/5udH0SEVpI dataset: https://t.co/bCYPsJSvI9
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"Wikipedia Town: Initiatives to develop 'regions' and 'interactions between people'" (at public libraries in Japan)
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"Leveraging Knowledge Graphs to Mitigate Counting Hallucinations: A Case Study of @Wikidata" @mrlogix et al, @WikidataW 2025 https://t.co/YYBTAblvDQ
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"Low-Cost Data Science and Knowledge Engineering in the Global South", using open tools like Wikidata https://t.co/0P3HjZ82Gr
How open-source and low-cost tools (e.g., @GoogleColab, @openstreetmap, @wikidata) are powering data science and knowledge-engineering innovation across the Global South. Case studies and a vision for inclusive digital transformation. 🌍📚 Link: https://t.co/HD39ttelHD.
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"Knowledge, neo-liberalism and mediatization: The crystal of Wikipedia" https://t.co/rNTMTDfe4s
#paywalled 💰 "encyclopaedias were an Enlightenment project" but Wikipedia "produc[es] recycled intellectual and layman’s knowledge without any political or revolutionary engagement."
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"Countering underproduction of peer produced goods" on English Wikipedia: "more experienced contributors [...] contribute [more] to underproduced goods", i.e. articles of low quality and high popularity. Editors "shift toward underproduced goods over time"
journals.sagepub.com
Peer produced goods, such as online knowledge bases and free/libre open source software rely on contributors who often choose their tasks regardless of consumer...
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"Wikidata as a Challenge for Rule Systems": It lacks rules, but "the intended meaning of many Wikidata constructs can be formalized as rules", as can be many of its constraints https://t.co/6lrmvvzH3P (Presentation video & slides: https://t.co/K1UaLcs1YZ
https://t.co/d9Ls1URX60 )
commons.wikimedia.org
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"What [of Wikipedia] did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia" https://t.co/ShHg1NeOZo E.g.: * "The selection of [topics] appears to have been informed primarily by readership [on Wikipedia]" * "Grokipedia articles are significantly longer" * Sourcing differs
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#HuggingFace dataset: 880K+ #Grokipedia pages and their corresponding #Wikipedia articles across 16 languages https://t.co/RaMGuYcFKt
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Wiki Workshop 2026 Call for Extended Abstracts: https://t.co/f27Ha5vttx (virtual event on March 25-26, 2026, submission deadline: January 23, 2026)
meta.wikimedia.org
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📊 Quality Measures for Data Visualization: A Case Study of Polish #Wikipedia. 🔎 We identified over 500,000 visualizations - tables, charts, diagrams, and maps. 🌟 We developed and implemented 30+ quality measures for #DataVisualization. 📖 Details: https://t.co/zmay1AEzsS
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"Tackling disinformation online with media literacy by design and community-centred platform regulation: The Wikipedia model" https://t.co/DR2x8Vcz6O (including "Wikipedia’s recent regulatory experiences under the EU Digital Services Act and European Media Freedom Act")
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"SciencePedia" claims to overcome "fundamental" limitations of Wikipedia's human-curated approach (and outdo Grokipedia too), by auto-generating an encyclopedia from a scientific reasoning knowledge base built by a "Socratic agent" https://t.co/QLLzfA0kz8
https://t.co/9vyZq842wC
📄 #POTD: Today's paper is a special one for us. It's the official blueprint for our new project, #SciencePedia. It exposes a fatal flaw in how we all store knowledge: "radical compression." We’ve all been taught to ignore the "dark matter of knowledge." Until now. Thread 👇
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INFO’s Ph.D. student Swad Huq and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia presented “Survival of the Notable: Gender Asymmetry in Wikipedia Collective Deliberations.” 🌐 📚 Explore their research:
dl.acm.org
Communities on the web rely on open conversation forums for a number of tasks, including governance, information sharing, and decision making. However these forms of collective deliberation can often...
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"Investigating the evolution of Wikipedia articles through underlying triggering networks" (with "factoids" as nodes, and associations between them as edges) https://t.co/B2yvMQL3mn
#paywalled 💰 e.g. "the inclusion of one factoid leads to the inclusion of many other factoids"
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