Meet the Research team. This expert group of scientists, researchers, engineers, and community specialists design and test new technologies, produce empirical insights to support new products and programs, and publish research informing the strategy of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement.

Who studies Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects? 🔬 The Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team does, motivated by the same principles of openness and transparency that powers the free knowledge movement as a whole. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

Wiki Workshop 2025 May 21st – 22nd, 2025

🚀 Curious about research on @wikipedia.org and @wikimediafoundation.org projects?

Join us at #WikiWorkshop2025, May 21–22 (virtual)!
🔹 46 research talks
🔹 Live Q&A + networking

Free registration: pretix.eu/wikimedia/wi...

Wiki Workshop 2025 May 21st – 22nd, 2025

Registration is now open for #WikiWorkshop2025!

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect and collaborate with the @wikiresearch.bsky.social community.

📅 May 21-22, 2025
💻 Virtual
🔗 pretix.eu/wikimedia/wi...

Open positions and projects ### Open semester and Master's projects If you're an AU student looking for a semester project, a Bachelor project, or an MS thesis project, please refer to [this list](projects). ### Prospective PhD ...

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more).

Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Please boost!

cc: @aicentre.dk @wikiresearch.bsky.social

New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...

~1 week left to submit your extended abstract to Wiki Workshop.
Submission deadline is **March 9th 23:59 (AoE)**
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

Why these scientists devote time to editing and updating Wikipedia Researchers can recognize a reliable source of information, making them ideal contributors to the free global online encyclopaedia.

Retaining academics as Wikipedia editors is challenging. Many drop off due to time demands and lack of compensation. For full-time researchers, editing is often relegated to evenings, weekends, and holidays. Thanks to @nature.com for highlighting this.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How do people *really* read Wikipedia? 📖 👀

We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939

📣The Call for Papers for the 12th edition of Wiki Workshop is out📣
Submit your 2-page extended abstract of your research about Wikimedia projects by March 9! All submissions are non-archival (ongoing, completed, already published works are welcome).
More info: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...