Wikimedia Research
Welcome to the home of Wikimedia Research. For an overview of our work, projects, resources, and collaborations, please visit: https://research.wikimedia.org
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Research
We use research methods to design new technology and produce knowledge to understand and empower our communities. We act as the bridge between the organization, the Wikimedia movement and the academic community.
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Wikimedia Research is a team of scientists and engineers using data to understand and empower millions of readers and contributors who interact with Wikipedia and its sister projects on a daily basis.
We turn research questions into publicly shared knowledge. We design and test new technology, produce empirical insights to support new products and programs, and publish research informing the organization’s and the movement’s strategy.
We are strongly committed to principles of transparency, privacy, and open collaboration. We collaborate with a network of researchers in the industry and academia, and publish all our output in the open.
Team edit
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Pablo Aragón
Research Scientist -
Martin Gerlach
Senior Research Scientist -
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer -
Isaac Johnson
Senior Research Scientist -
Fabian Kaelin
Senior Research Engineer -
Yu-Ming Liou
Lead Strategist (Analytics, Insights, & Impact Evaluation) -
Caroline Myrick
Senior Analyst -
Miriam Redi
Research Manager -
Diego Saez-Trumper
Senior Research Scientist -
Leila Zia
Head of Research
Fellows edit
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Robert West
Research Fellow
Former team members edit
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Djellel Difallah
Research Scientist (now at NYU Abu Dhabi) -
Aaron Halfaker
Principal Research Scientist (now with Microsoft Research) -
Emily Lescak
Senior Research Community Officer -
Jonathan Morgan
Senior Design Researcher (now with CrowdStrike) -
Abigail Ripstra
Lead Design Research Manager -
Nathaniel Schaaf
Software Engineer -
Dario Taraborelli
Director, Head of Research (now with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) -
Morten Warncke-Wang
Research Fellow (now with the Wikimedia Product Analytics team) -
Ellery Wulczyn
Data Scientist (now with Google Brain) -
Erik Zachte
Senior Data Analyst
Collaborations edit
We collaborate with external researchers in a variety of forms. You can read more on formal collaborations on this page.
Current collaborators edit
| Name (ORCID) |
Affiliation | Project | NDA | PoC |
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| Akhil Arora | EPFL | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Tiziano Piccardi | Stanford University | Y | Martin Gerlach
Miriam Redi | |
| Robert West | EPFL | Y | Leila Zia
Martin Gerlach | |
| Daniele Rama | University of Turin | Y | Miriam Redi | |
| Mo Houtti | University of Minnesota | N | Isaac Johnson | |
| Loren Terveen | University of Minnesota | N | Isaac Johnson | |
| Dani S. Bassett | University of Pennsylvania | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| David Lydon-Staley | University of Pennsylvania | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Shubhankar Patankar | University of Pennsylvania | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Dale Zhou | University of Pennsylvania | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Perry Zurn | American University | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Meeyoung Cha | Institute for Basic Science (South Korea) | N | Diego Sáez | |
| Jaehyeon Myung | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | N | Diego Sáez | |
| Aitolkyn Baigutanova | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | Y | Diego Sáez | |
| Indira Sen | GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Katrin Weller | GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Mareike Wieland | GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Y | Martin Gerlach |
Resources edit
- To learn more about our team's work, we invite you to read our bi-annual Research Report.
- Read our research community vision and strategy.
- Our research reports mostly live in the Research namespace on Meta. We aim to maintain a list of publicly-available datasets that come out of these projects.
- We host every month a showcase where we present publicly our work and invite guest speakers involved in Wikimedia research. You can browse past editions of the showcase on this page. The showcase has been running monthly since December 2013.
- We host every month office hours where you can ask us research-related questions (such as on datasets, projects, ...)
- If you're interested in staying on top of both internal and external research on our projects, check out our monthly newsletter (which you can also subscribe to by mail) or follow @WikiResearch on Twitter. The newsletter is mostly volunteer effort coordinated by Tilman and Miriam and has been proudly running since April 2011.
- You can reach us on IRC on Libera via the irc:wikimedia-research channel or drop us a line at (research-wmf@lists.wikimedia.org).