#Wikipedia relies on a small group of elected administrators for key governance and maintenance tasks. Are offline Wikipedia meetups related to who ends up in these roles? In Wikipedia's early years, the answer is yes! 📝 doi.org/10.1609/icws...

Honored to have received the Best Web Agent award for our demo "Wikipedia Community Health Dashboards", check them out here: vitalsigns.wmcloud.org The paper is available in the proceedings here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

@icwsm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Wikipedia is often held as a leader in how a community comes together to make difficult epistemological decisions. This article examines the difficulty they faced when deciding to create a timely policy about AI. Some great work looking at Wikipedia policy here. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How did I miss this Ford, Dubois, & Puschmann paper about transparency wikibots (twitter bots that automatically report instances of Wikipedia editing by IPs tied to government, before that became impossible last year). Focus here is on Gccabot (Canada): demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Is Wikipedia Biased? Later this week, I'm speaking to the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science in a project to link Wikimedia movement leaders with scientists to imagine studies together. This talk introduces questions of gender/cultural representation www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5GM...

Is Wikipedia Biased? Studying Representation on Wikipedia

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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/Researc...

Taha Yasseri@tahayasseri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Paper out in @pnas.org We compared ~18,000 matched articles between Wikipedia and Grokipedia, xAI’s AI-generated encyclopedia. While many pages closely mirrored Wikipedia, a substantial subset diverged markedly in content, sourcing, and political orientation, especially in religion and history.

Paper out in @pnas.org We compared ~18,000 matched articles between Wikipedia and Grokipedia, xAI’s AI-generated encyclopedia. While many pages closely mirrored Wikipedia, a substantial subset diverged markedly in content, sourcing, and political orientation, especially in religion and history.

Our new paper is out today in @pnasnexus.org with colleagues at Yale (@matthewshu.com, Danny Karell, @keitarookura.bsky.social) We wanted to understand how using AI-generated summaries to learn about history influenced attitudes compared to existing resources like Wikipedia. 1/4

Finally blogged about my paper (led by @zarine.net) that seeks to explain why Croatian Wikipedia spent a decade captured by a cabal of political extremists and became a site for Holocaust revisionism, while other similar Wikipedia languages seemed to have fared much better. mako.cc/copyrighteou...

Very happy to share that our new paper, "Interoperability as Equity: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs as a Tool to Shape Inclusive Ontologies" is out! We are discussing linked open data, ontologies, Wikidata and interoperability with CIDOC CRM doi.org/10.5334/johd...

Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia! 🥳 A fitting moment to share 1. Their great site to mark the occasion: wikipedia25.org 2. A paper in Big Data & Society, published over the winter break, where we develop Wikipedia as a “Refractive Dataset”, led by @beeeeeers.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1177/2053...

ICYMI: Finally blogged about an old paper led by @kayleachampion.bsky.social that developed a new method (forensic qualitative analysis) to understand the nature and value of @torproject.org users' contributions to @wikipedia.org. mako.cc/copyrighteou...

"The Block Log: 20 Years of Content Moderation on Wikipedia" rhododendrites.com/pdfs/The%20B...

Ryan McGrady@antisomniac.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper out today: The Blocklog: 20 Years of Content Moderation on Wikipedia. In New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ICYMI: Finally blogged about an "old" paper led by @groceryheist.cc that uses data from a @wikipedia.org system to show how the introduction of a biased AI flagging system can still lead to more fairness because the humans without the system are even more biased. mako.cc/copyrighteou...

Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for f…

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Congratulations to @tiagolubiana.bsky.social for shepherding our paper to publication & to all my wonderful co-authors. "Wiki Loves iNaturalist: How Wikimedians Integrate iNaturalist Content on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons" can be read here doi.org/10.3897/biss...

I’m chuffed to share that I’ve been awarded this grant with @ftripodi.bsky.social and Brett Zehner 🥳 We’ll be studying how AI systems may reproduce or reinforce biases in Wikipedia, whether by extracting knowledge from the platform or by contributing content back to it. Excited to get started!

BRAID UK@braiduk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re excited to announce seven newly funded projects that will establish and strengthen collaborations between US and UK researchers exploring and addressing the ethical, legal, and societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI): braiduk.org/new-projects...

A few updates on our Grokipedia analysis: we expanded our sample to 20,000 most edited articles on Wikipedia. Linguistic & stylistic differences are the same as reported before (Generally, Grokipedia articles are longer, more difficult to read, and less referenced.) @wikiresearch.bsky.social

back again to share a new preprint from me and @mantzarlis.com! “What did Elon Change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia” arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685 I had seen many spot analyses of individual grokipedia pages, but I was curious: how was grokipedia made? what did Elon change from wikipedia?

Key points in new Cornell Tech research: 56% of Grokipedia entries carry the Wikipedia CC license, suggesting wholesale ingestion Grokipedia’s top 100 sources include fewer news outlets and more UGC (e.g. LinkedIn scraping) Grokipedia has fewer citations overall, making it harder to check sources

Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites

A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do

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Wikidata Map in 2025 Another year, another map, and another Birthday for Wikidata. Last generated in 2024 by @tarrow and @outdooracorn, this year I have put the work in just ahead of the 13th Wikidata birthday to have a look at what's changed in terms of items with coordinates this past year on…

#Grokipedia set out to “fix” #Wikipedia. Turns out it mostly rewrites it, longer, slicker, less sourced. Fluent, but fragile. @wikiresearch.bsky.social

"Investigating extreme cases in Wikipedia talk pages: Some insights on user behaviours" uplopen.com/chapters/e… e.g. "the most prolific users, the longest threads (in terms of total duration, number of posts or number of distinct users involved) and the longest monologues"

Seredinski, A., Litchock-Morellato, F., Lange, A. et al. Using a Wikipedia edit-a-thon as a cross-curricular STEM representation assignment. Discov Educ 4, 368 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s442... #OpenAccess

Using a Wikipedia edit-a-thon as a cross-curricular STEM representation assignment - Discover Education

Background Wikipedia is a highly used, free, online encyclopedia with known gender disparities across its biography content. Editing Wikipedia has entered STEM classrooms as a writing-focused and sometimes equity-focused assignment. This paper presents a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts focused on improving articles about women in STEM. This edit-a-thon promoted cross-disciplinary collaboration and community building with faculty and undergraduate students across eleven courses and disparate disciplines and offices at the university. Results Edit-a-thon attendees edited pages on women in STEM and listened to five-minute lightning talks by women in the university community: students, former faculty, and administrators. The impacts of the event include the addition of more than 15,000 words and 100 references to more than 100 articles on Wikipedia. The event supported a variety of student learning outcomes in participating courses across disciplines in the sciences and humanities. Conclusions A Wikipedia edit-a-thon supported student learning across multiple subjects while contributing to underdeveloped biography articles about women in STEM and helping students find a voice in the Wiki space. The edit-a-thon has potential as a cross-curricular touchpoint and to support equity and representation work.

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"Demographic disparity in Wikipedia coverage: a global perspective" (top 12 languages) epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/1… - Women slightly overrepresented (not underrepresented) among living article subjects since ~2015, but still have shorter articles - Developing countries overrepresented

"Investigating How LLMs Impact Participation in [Wikipedia]" (interviewing 16 editors) https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07819v1 ChatGPT etc "enhance contribution quality for experienced editors" & "lower entry barriers for newcomers", but newbies struggle to align LLM outputs w Wikipedia policies

New paper alert: WikiTextGraph – an open-source Python package for extracting the text and building multilingual Wikipedia link networks. With: @gustavoschwartz.bsky.social , Juan Luis Suárez Paper: openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/10.... @wikiresearch.bsky.social #wikipedia #software

With the school year approaching, a number of scholars and myself have assembled together a Critical Wikimedia Research Bibliography. If you are teaching a course or doing research, we think you might find some good resources here. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Critica...

Critical Wikimedia Research Bibliography - Meta-Wiki

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I am pleased to announce the launch of the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research manifesto.wiki. As my co-authored Big Data & Society commentary explains, the manifesto is dedicated to a humanist and critical tradition of taking Wikipedia's importance seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A manifesto for Wikimedia research: Critically studying Wikimedia as infrastructure

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Had a great time meeting everyone and seeing all the interesting work @icwsm.bsky.social. I presented our study on the Wikireddit dataset - exploring Wikipedia’s role in fact-checking, discussion, and cross-platform attention on the web. Thank you to the organisers! 📄: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

UW published this really nice article about my work on governance challenges and lifecycles faced by peer-produced online communities—the work supported by my NSF CAREER grant. Check it out if you want to know what I've been thinking about and working on!

The Challenge of Peer-Produced Websites | UW College of Arts & Sciences

Communication professor Benjamin Mako Hill studies why successful peer-produced websites (like Wikipedia) eventually struggle to maintain their openness to new contributors.

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