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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Mandate
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
We are a team with diverse backgrounds and expertise, collectively speaking more than 15 languages. Meet us!
Fellows
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Robert West
Research Fellow
Former team members
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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) -
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Ellery Wulczyn
Data Scientist (now with Google Brain) -
Erik Zachte
Senior Data Analyst
Collaborations
We collaborate with external researchers in a variety of forms. You can read more on formal collaborations on this page.
Current collaborators
| Name (ORCID) |
Affiliation | Project | NDA | PoC |
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| Akhil Arora | EPFL | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| Tiziano Piccardi | Stanford University | Y | Miriam Redi | |
| Robert West | EPFL | Y | Leila Zia
Martin Gerlach | |
| Daniele Rama | University of Turin | Y | Miriam Redi | |
| Marija Šakota | EPFL | Y | Isaac Johnson | |
| Loren Terveen | University of Minnesota | N | Isaac Johnson | |
| Dale Zhou | University of Pennsylvania | Y | Martin Gerlach | |
| 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 | |
| Michael Zimmer | Marquette University | Y | Eli Asikin-Garmager |
Resources
- To learn more about our team's work, we invite you to read our bi-annual Research Report.
- Read our Research Community Mapping to learn more about how we serve each of our audiences and how we view our role in strengthening the Wikimedia Research Communities.
- 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, ...)
- We host Wiki Workshop, an annual forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia 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).