WikiResearch

In the latest edition of our monthly research newsletter: * More on similarities and differences between Grokipedia and Wikipedia * Grokipedia may have increased editing activity on Wikipedia * Detecting AI-generated text on Wikipedia And more: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…

"The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age" (book review) ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc… "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/10.114…

Wikimedia Foundation invites feedback on grant proposals for its 2026 Research Fund (until April 21) @lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NG275YNGESW5ACBEOBMGEAE7GGAYTQGP/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis…

"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/wiki… (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/download… Code and data: github.com/aw814/WikiGap

"Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024" emerald.com/dlp/article/do… "extreme and persistent gender imbalance [...] gaps peak in the Middle Ages (7.84:1) and remain high in contemporary figures (5.74:1)"

"Nature of sources cited in German-language Wikipedia pages on German Christmas Markets" researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publication… Mainly "newspaper articles and websites run by market organisers or destination marketing bodies"; "formal publications, and archival sources are used less frequently"

"while global (physiological) circadian patterns in Wikipedia editing behaviour exist, each linguistic community exhibits its unique socially-induced temporal trends." arxiv.org/html/2603.0129… e.g. DE, FR edits peak during weekends, but ES, PT, IT, VI are higher on weekdays

"Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language" doi.org/10.1007/s00146… (Critique of a "tragic contradiction" affecting the "utopian project for a new programming language" underlying Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia)

🛸 #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy in #Wikipedia: Exploring Structural and Semantic Cues doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

"Participants read Wikipedia or GPT-4o summaries of two historical events, with AI summaries maintaining factual accuracy while exhibiting different types of framing biases. Default AI summaries led to more liberal opinions compared with Wikipedia" bsky.app/profile/thomas…

Contrary to "widespread perception", Wikipedia and Grokipedia have "broadly comparable tendencies ... in their treatment of politically controversial topics", but there is "a modest but consistent right-leaning bias in Grokipedia relative to Wikipedia" arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15484

"Wikipedia and Grokipedia: A Comparison of Human and Generative Encyclopedias" generative systems preserve the main structural organization of encyclopedic content, while affecting how content is selected, rewritten, and framed (Hadad et al 2026) arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05519

Birkenmaier, Stroppe, Wurthmann & Sältzer use NLP+Wikidata on 50k tweets and 190k FB posts (Bundestag 2017–2021) to map geographic representation. District MPs cite nearer places - and deprived areas in-district - more than list MPs. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

"Quantifying (Mis)alignment Between Reader Focus and Editor Citation in Scholarly Biomedical Topics in Wikipedia" doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.… ("readers focus on topics that are very human-focused, but editors focus their citation work on basic science topics")

Registration is open for @wikiworkshop 2026, "the annual forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects" (March 25-26, 2026, online, free of charge) @lists.wikimedia.org/thread/Z5VBRNPPTACENUQ4PWQXL57RBDV7O6PC/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis…

Call for Lightning Talk proposals for the research track of this year's @Wikimania conference (to take place July 21-25, 2026 in Paris, France, as an in-person and online event): @lists.wikimedia.org/thread/PS5ZAGZLBAWDRBYG4ENLR6BXHNFGF7FA/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis… Submission deadline: March 31, 2026

📢📄Pubblicazione Special Issue (2026). What does the future hold for shared cataloguing in Italy and for SBN? A proactive contribution. JLIS.it, 17(1). 👉jlis.it/index.php/jlis… 🧵1/4

In the latest edition of our monthly newsletter: * Benchmarking data practices of art museums in Wikidata * A comparison of three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia and more: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…