MGerlach (WMF)

Martin Gerlach

Senior Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation

About me

Hi. My name is Martin, I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in September 2019 as a Research Scientist in the Research team. I live and work in Berlin, Germany.

My work

My background is in Physics. I try to understand the dynamics of complex social systems.

Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

• email: mgerlach@wikimedia.org
• irc: mgerlach (#wikimedia-research^connect)
• Personal website: martingerlach.github.io/

iD

This user has the ORCID identifier:
0000-0002-0879-7865

Projects

Last updated on 2022-06-17

Active Projects that I am currently working on: Understanding reader navigation Knowledge gaps index Copyediting as a Structured Task Multilingual Readability Research Recommending links to increase visibility of articles Understanding Curious and Critical Readers Also: I am co-organizing the monthly Research Office hours, join us if you want to discuss about research. They take place every 1st Tuesday of the month. I am co-organizing the monthly Research Showcase, join us if you want to learn about recent research around Wikimedia projects. They take place every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

Completed Completed research projects and reports: Link recommendation Language-agnostic list-building for ad-hoc topic modeling Developing metrics for content gaps in the taxonomy of knowledge gaps Metrics for quantifying gender content gaps List of covid-related articles based on reader sessions (reader interest) New user reading patterns Usage of talk pages

Dissemination Talks etc: 2022-04: Presentation at the Wikimedia Foundation April 2022 Staff meeting on 5 Learning from Research on Reader Navigation 2021-09: Blogpost titled Analyzing the Wikipedia clickstream just got easier with WikiNav on the Wikimedia Tech blog with Muniza A. and Isaac Johnson (WMF) 2021-09: Blogpost titled World Suicide Prevention Day and the opportunity to increase access to mental health information on Wikimedia projects on the Diff blog with Cristina Butoiu (WMF) and Leighanna Mixter (WMF) 2021-08: Lecture on Editing with machine learning: a case study on link recommendations at Wikimania 2021 with Kosta Harlan (WMF), Marshall Miller (WMF), Rita Ho (WMF), and Morten Warncke-Wang (WMF) 2021-08: Workshop on Indicators for the Wikimedia Projects at Wikimania 2021 with Marc Miquel, Pablo Aragón (WMF), Miriam Redi (WMF), David Laniado, and Cristian Consonni. 2021-06: Keynote on The science of knowledge equity at the Wikimedia Foundation at PCNet21 satellite workshop on political communication networks as part of Networks 21: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference.