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2026-04-24 13:44:12 GMT

"Beyond Access: Contextualizing the Benefits of Broadband through Contributor Dynamics on Wikipedia" broadband reshapes but does not evenly redistribute editorial influence.
(Yin and Thebault-Spieker, @acm_chi 2026)
https://t.co/PIavh9Tj81 https://t.co/3BYF2O4VNB
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/2047672756263624873

2026-04-05 07:49:42 GMT

"Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024" https://t.co/M0FpTZWNT1
"extreme and persistent gender imbalance [...] gaps peak in the Middle Ages (7.84:1) and remain high in contemporary figures (5.74:1)"
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/2040697715479441714

2025-08-08 01:19:31 GMT

"Sockpuppet Detection in Wikipedia Using Machine Learning and Voting Classifiers" https://t.co/xD3uBN9eBe
("The best results were obtained by aggregating the result of Random Forest, AdaBoost, and XGBoost achieving an accuracy rate of 88% with 87% precision.")
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1953626464030798164

2025-08-02 03:34:13 GMT

RT @RevanthAtmakuri: 🤖 Algorithms: great at picking your next obsession, bad at letting you think. This paper says bring back *friction*—li…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1951486553039220766

2025-08-01 07:09:16 GMT

"Student contributions to Wikipedia as evidence of learning and competence development in distance education" (in Spanish, with English abstract) https://t.co/YJVgYabr18 https://t.co/VdD4lU0AxA
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1951177586769633534

2025-07-17 13:54:52 GMT

"The negotiation of pronominal address on talk pages of the German, French, and Italian Wikipedia"
https://t.co/de6tImbnrU
German and Italian "wikiquette" stipulates the informal "du"/"tu" among editors (instead of "Sie"/"Lei").
French Wikipedia lacks consensus on "vous" vs. "tu"
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1945844185136816329

2025-07-08 00:44:48 GMT

"Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" https://t.co/CWuMZpjpGZ
Commentary detailing ten proposed action points from "A Manifesto for Wikimedia Research: Critically Studying Media as Infrastructure" (developed in context of last year's "Wikihistories" conference) https://t.co/vgBNOCkHAj
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1942384165040841099

2025-06-16 22:04:31 GMT

"Evaluating Llama 3 for Text Simplification: A Study on Wikipedia Lead Sections" https://t.co/QQP4Dk5GDi
Succeeds in simplifying, "even surpassing the readability of Simple English Wikipedia lead sections". Performance varies by topic when also accounting for meaning preservation https://t.co/pXs2wAZvyp
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1934732895899537550

2025-06-15 18:29:45 GMT

"Detecting Sockpuppetry on Wikipedia Using Meta-Learning" https://t.co/7KY7PeHnxG
("Meta-learning optimises a model for rapid adaptation to the writing style of a new sockpuppet-group [... and] significantly enhances the precision of predictions compared to pre-trained models")
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1934316449289699819

2025-06-09 03:14:31 GMT

"Fake news, an internet troll, and a conspiracy theory about ‘Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust’" https://t.co/2NunnhSdyQ
Response by one of the Wikipedians criticized in a 2023 paper with that title. Cf. its review in our newsletter at the time: https://t.co/TFEnYswXlf
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1931912088806682869

2025-05-26 00:55:14 GMT

Portrait of @nprofile…sf8p's @nprofile…f3ch , describing his research on "The Challenge of Peer-Produced Websites" such as Wikipedia https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2025-05/challenge-peer-produced-websites

2025-05-20 05:49:45 GMT

"From Meetups to Adminship: The Offline Path to Leadership on Wikipedia" https://t.co/E3gr04yVJb
"while offline engagement [at community meetings] was modestly associated with candidacy and electoral success in [German Wikipedia's] earlier years, these effects diminish over time" https://t.co/CX3kZiD91J
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1924704026198999344

2025-05-17 23:29:50 GMT

Thesis: "Automatically Estimating the Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Articles" based on the reliability of the external sources used https://t.co/CKfS3heiUs
(but "our model is not able to reliably assess
the trustworthiness of Wikipedia articles yet") https://t.co/iKlU0yMGgC
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1923883301644927453

2025-05-16 21:39:31 GMT

"The ADL’s report is, dismally, riddled with errors, including in its manipulation of a peer-reviewed publication that I co-authored on Holocaust distortion on Wikipedia." https://t.co/S7ptcV3yK9 (by @DrShiraKlein )
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1923492770792210607

2025-03-19 07:54:23 GMT

RT @DFRLab: 🚨NEW: The #Pravdanetwork—a Russia-linked disinformation operation—has infiltrated #Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and #X, spreading pr…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1902267129128481068

2024-11-27 22:10:03 GMT

Wikipedia's FlaggedRevs as "an empirical puzzle for social computing researchers":
A community-designed moderation system, supported by WMF leadership, successful at its goal of reducing vandalism - and yet failing to be widely adopted https://t.co/6oVAgwgMur https://t.co/ASImAeFsBa
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1861894977477107756

2024-11-26 10:24:21 GMT

"WikiDO: A New Benchmark Evaluating Cross-Modal Retrieval for Vision-Language Models", consisting of 384K image-text pairs from Wikipedia with domain labels, along with human-verified in/out distribution test sets.
(Kalyan et al, 2024)
https://t.co/ys7gU3eGO9 https://t.co/yiSs7GR4iI
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1861354258366357781

2024-11-14 02:34:35 GMT

RT @tizianopiccardi: With the amazing folks at Wikimedia Research (@npub1s7t…2ul2), I design tools to support editors, uncover insights into…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1856887593058931191

2024-11-08 15:29:54 GMT

"Public Domain 12M: A Highly Aesthetic Image-Text Dataset with Novel Governance Mechanisms" images from @OpenGLAM @WikiCommons and @inaturalist with captions + a community governance approach to reduce harm and support reproducibility.
(Meyer et al 2024)
https://t.co/kZxstK2cWq https://t.co/DnkBu1DRzb
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1854908810160218460

2024-11-05 11:35:22 GMT

"Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia" Utilizing editorial activity data, the model evaluates source reliability within different articles of varying controversiality.
(D’Ignazi et al, 2024)
https://t.co/d8spcPw4a4 https://t.co/tZQSeUNDBb
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1853761782394851721

2024-11-01 12:39:58 GMT

"A Test of Time: Predicting the Sustainable Success of Online Collaboration in Wikipedia" measures the ability of collaborative efforts to maintain their quality over time + new dataset: 40K articles w/ success labels & 300 features
(Israeli et al, 2024)
https://t.co/MdW0uh7oK3 https://t.co/XlyC8I2JbC
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1852329258032464004

2024-10-31 20:14:17 GMT

"Disjointness Violations in Wikidata" https://t.co/PBDLtZCeGe
Finds 51 pairs of classes on Wikidata that should be disjoint (e.g. "natural object" vs. "artificial object") but aren't, with over 10 million violations, caused by a small number of "culprits" https://t.co/LjfP6HPgmT
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1852081531248099796

2024-10-30 06:29:57 GMT

RT @wikihistories: @npub1z66…d82c @UTSFass @UTSResearch @UTSEngage @hfordsa @cap_and_gown @UniMelb Did you know? The further you move from #Aus…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1851511257305956454

2024-10-30 06:09:31 GMT

"Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership" https://t.co/AHSMpYyug9
"we replicate two styles of curiosity ...: the nomadic 'busybody' and the targeted 'hunter.' Further, we find evidence for another style—the 'dancer'" https://t.co/xzjgIKLDTj https://t.co/JhDHPo8t7M
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1851506543973503454

2024-10-28 10:44:52 GMT

"The Rise of AI-Generated Content in @npub1z66…d82c" , detectors flag over 5% of newly created English Wikipedia articles as AI-generated, with lower percentages for German, French, and Italian articles.
(Brooks et al, 2024)
https://t.co/k5brkxRL0l https://t.co/mljo2DSFvV
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1850850686008713614

2024-10-25 21:34:16 GMT

In our October newsletter:
▸"Rise of AI-Generated Content": The AI-Wikipedia ouroboros begins to devour itself - or does it?
▸Using LLMs to improve coverage of underrepresented groups
▸Feminist critiques of Wikipedia's "be bold" and lack of "dissensus"
https://t.co/SOIITDZ16p https://t.co/YK1VdwOyTl
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1849927214093172918

2024-10-25 09:05:24 GMT

RT @HimarshaJ: @WebSciDL @cikm2024 Presentation 7: Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models, By Yiwen Peng (recorded present…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1849737684962713914

2024-10-24 14:29:42 GMT

Check out the call for papers for the "@Wikidata and Research" Conference! It will be held at the University of Florence in Italy on June 5-6, 2025.
You can submit your papers until December 9, 2024:
https://t.co/oOZt879ROQ
@Monica_Berti @theiapsswalker https://t.co/ab7RbWfoGW
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1849457893868773519

2024-10-21 04:49:36 GMT

"Wikimedia data for AI: a review of Wikimedia datasets for NLP tasks and AI-assisted editing" https://t.co/3pQ96qGl8g
(it's not just Wikipedia) https://t.co/tcAsrGtKbt
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1848223915560017981

2024-10-21 04:24:28 GMT

"[Wikipedia editors'] hesitancy to “declare crisis” [on climate change ... is] an outcome of a friction between the folk philosophy of science Wikipedia is built upon, editors’ own sense of urgency, and their anticipations about audience uptake of their writing." #paywalled 💰 https://t.co/MeU3Q8RoTf
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1848218179593474371

2024-10-21 04:19:31 GMT

RT @SciPublic: 🌊Declaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on Wikipedia
🔗https://t.co/RZbHTHAZr5
#scicomm #ClimateCrisis…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1848217034980479030

2024-10-17 14:49:55 GMT

"Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia" identifying source and target entities + understanding of the content of the source to locate a suitable position for the link in the text.
(Feith et al, 2024)
https://t.co/65jdQr5WE3
@DebjitPaul2 https://t.co/Vqgq1bCkpW
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1846925760902070677

2024-10-16 17:10:23 GMT

RT @giovanni1085: "Open access improves the dissemination of science: Insights from @npub1z66…d82c"
Key result: Wikipedia increasingly relies…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1846599330653983132

2024-10-16 10:24:51 GMT

Join this month's @Wikimedia Research Showcase today, October 16 at 16:30 UTC!
Watch the livestream here: https://t.co/1yKldhUaVO https://t.co/IYNJ2KKCaK
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1846496721238462555

2024-10-16 05:39:19 GMT

RT @HuBeiTIS: Glad to share my paper, "Negotiation, power, and ethics in online collaborative translation: The translation of 'COVID-19' by…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1846425464321331667

2024-10-14 10:44:43 GMT

"Uncovering Differences in Persuasive Language in Russian versus English Wikipedia"
(Li et al, 2024)
https://t.co/pCJr4s7v7i https://t.co/QRecwYpVL8
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1845776882924445938

2024-10-09 11:10:11 GMT

"Filling Gaps in Wikipedia: Leveraging Data-to-Text Generation to Improve Encyclopedic Coverage of Underrepresented Groups"
(Mille et al, 2024)
paper: https://t.co/CdxqzIn8Uc
tool: https://t.co/T816PPEMUt https://t.co/pVNCIXYesD
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1843971375041802687

2024-10-07 11:05:32 GMT

"Comparative Analysis Of Pretrained Models for Text Classification, Generation and Summarization : A Detailed Analysis" test of existing LLMs' performance on English Wikipedia summarization, generation and classification tasks.
(Pathak and @psrana1982)
https://t.co/7iQoXfEnh5 https://t.co/cgVv38deLi
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1843244722586030497

2024-10-03 21:20:09 GMT

"Wikipedia in Wartime: Experiences of Wikipedians Maintaining Articles About the Russia-Ukraine War" https://t.co/gko6ndMKQC
enwiki resilient to "high-levels of disruptive editing from both Russia-aligned and Ukraine-aligned accounts", no clear evidence that state actors involved https://t.co/6ekSNMgTDV
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1841950677750448198

2024-10-03 09:39:28 GMT

RT @frimelle: Writing the proposal for the 2nd iteration of the NLP for Wikipedia workshop before the 1st has even happened is surreal - "T…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1841774568194617815

2024-10-02 19:04:45 GMT

"EuroLLM: Multilingual Language Models for Europe" trained on Wikipedia as "high quality data" for understanding and generating text in all official European Union languages.
(Martins et al, 2024)
https://t.co/L6GSMPzjH0 https://t.co/TuKRxbkUGX
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1841554789085122893

2024-09-27 16:10:04 GMT

"Flavours of History: Exploring Historical and Cultural Connections Through Ingredient Analysis Using NLP and Knowledge Graphs" with the help of @Wikidata!
(al Assali 2024)
https://t.co/1aAuXjDb9s
@VUamsterdam https://t.co/Ilobeny7VO
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1839698743307678103

2024-09-25 10:39:28 GMT

"Quality of Male and Female Medical Content on English-Language Wikipedia: Quantitative Content Analysis" health-related articles for both sexes have comparable quality and higher exclusively female coverage.
(Farič et al, @npub19nz…pywv 2024)
https://t.co/QaQLpZ92cW
@WikiDocJames
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1838890307657596943

2024-09-20 17:24:11 GMT

"After all, who invented the airplane? Multilingualism and grassroots knowledge production on Wikipedia" Unpacking the intricate connections between language, country, and nationality in grassroots knowledge production online
(@guilhermefians)
https://t.co/BrCnoCVHli https://t.co/QfgRCKkx4C
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1837180231754420345

2024-09-18 10:05:30 GMT

"Refining @Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models" WiKC, a new version of Wikidata taxonomy cleaned automatically using a combination of LLMs and graph mining techniques.
(Peng et al, 2024)
paper: https://t.co/vFHvOn2i3m
data/code: https://t.co/jhdB9xp3O0 https://t.co/5cyNZn8BqN
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1836344752276480065

2024-09-18 05:59:45 GMT

RT @npub1y8u…0y8q: Upgraded free API accounts with 5000 monthly request quota and now twice-monthly bulk data dumps... all for free now on…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1836283623823282485

2024-09-16 10:54:45 GMT

📢Join this month's @Wikimedia Research Showcase this Wednesday, September 18 at 16:30 UTC!
🤖 The topic will be on "Curation of Wikimedia AI Datasets"
Watch the livestream here: https://t.co/vLhofUVh3Q https://t.co/kEPw2o034f
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1835632458659717188

2024-09-16 09:39:31 GMT

"WikiCausal: Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Causal Knowledge Graph Construction"
(Hassanzadeh 2024)
paper: https://t.co/oDvYXK08uY
Corpus : https://t.co/RDlmBIQ1Pv Evaluation Framework : https://t.co/cgWfe6ugyt https://t.co/FhzvEbMZbi
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1835614383369597415

2024-09-16 09:39:30 GMT

"Knowledge Sharing in the Adminship Communities of the Eastern European Versions of Wikipedia Pages" there exist differences across languages in terms of adminship work around organizing and creating the knowledge process.
(Karczewska, 2024)
https://t.co/q5SykzkE8m https://t.co/16KA6AA8fC
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1835613814009614416

2024-09-14 18:34:57 GMT

RT @StudentsJourna1: A new study by Prof. Yoshan Moodley (PhD) from Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, documents the Yearly trend in Wikip…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1835024033316061589

2024-09-13 19:29:57 GMT

RT @BestRefNet: #Polarization and #reliability of news sources in #Wikipedia: top 5 news outlets reliability class for different political…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1834675001624248461

2024-09-13 19:25:04 GMT

RT @HWWPotts: 📢New paper: Quality of Male and Female Medical Content on English-Language Wikipedia
https://t.co/xk9hNibTNN
We looked at t…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1834674343403831751

2024-09-12 01:44:39 GMT

"PaperQA2 writes cited, Wikipedia-style summaries of scientific topics that are significantly more accurate than existing, human-written Wikipedia articles," being less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations) [...] than Wikipedia authors or editors" https://t.co/UA5yJDsU8m https://t.co/L2XnNDB5Q1 https://t.co/OXBG865i0k
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1834044910988919165

2024-09-11 20:44:26 GMT

"By analyzing the edit history of Wikipedia’s ‘hyperpop’ page, we locate ongoing debates, controversies, and contestations that point to shaping forces around online genre formation." https://t.co/SY7xjxdmxw
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1833969738747400256

2024-09-11 20:44:25 GMT

RT @umsi: New research from UMSI:
Seeing Like an AI: How LLMs Apply (and Misapply) Wikipedia Neutrality Norms
Joshua Ashkinaze, Ruijia Guan…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1833969541258641478

2024-09-11 09:44:41 GMT

"Constructing a Common Ground: Analyzing the quality and usage of International Auxiliary Languages in Wikipedia", including Simple English, Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Volapük, Interlingue, and Novial.
(Alet and Saez-Trumper, 2024)
https://t.co/fxxKxHETVR https://t.co/haEMEuOQ0H
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1833802967033446478

2024-09-09 16:35:09 GMT

In the latest issue of our newletter:
▸ Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa
▸ Abstract claims "significant decrease in Wikipedia page views" after ChatGPT
and other new research publications
https://t.co/GGyPIklRGj https://t.co/eRrHw50Pen
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1833181655303090603

2024-09-06 11:50:01 GMT

"Multi-FAct: Assessing Factuality of Multilingual LLMs using FActScore" tested using non-English Wikipedia to provide comprehensive guidelines on multilingual factual evaluation for regionally diverse topics.
(Shafayat et al, 2024)
https://t.co/JRJ9mY0oll https://t.co/tsVcCV69VZ
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1832022812124414266

2024-09-04 13:10:07 GMT

"What does it mean to be queer in @Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community"
(Melis et al, 2024)
https://t.co/0D8O1bojsy
@dmetilli https://t.co/7UrqaK3dYe
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1831317833365500192

2024-09-03 14:24:55 GMT

RT @nschwitter: 🎉My favourite PhD chapter found its home in New Media & Society: I explore whether offline ties matter in online elections,…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1830975001786536027

2024-09-02 20:49:22 GMT

Review of an earlier paper addressing the same question: https://t.co/3KmbcjycKx
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1830709276958171221

2024-09-02 20:49:21 GMT

"Impact of Generative AI": "significant decrease in Wikipedia page views (market value) after the release of ChatGPT", but "increase in the quality of Wikipedia articles as evidenced by a significant increase in verbosity and readability"
https://t.co/1IRPOlM8cX (abstract only)
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1830708730662633884

2024-08-30 18:24:55 GMT

Canonical directory of Wikimedia research projects (by academics, the Wikimedia Foundation, and community members): https://t.co/YiBmik2BHI
See recently launched efforts, search for past projects, and add your own https://t.co/hjVNp2mPyR
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1829585709554082146

2024-08-30 10:34:37 GMT

"Modeling and Enhancing Human Knowledge Navigation"
Phd Thesis from @aroraakhilcs, developing methods for understanding and modeling human navigation on Wikipedia, and devising tools for mitigating content and structural knowledge gaps.
https://t.co/dLNNlRYJT1
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1829467096587391028

2024-08-30 02:24:37 GMT

"KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning" https://t.co/3gsWYNm2Wg
https://t.co/13ErutQpVq https://t.co/luGASe0RMr
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1829343401105592521

2024-08-30 02:19:40 GMT

RT @v_i_o_l_a: "Let’s Edit: Using Wikipedia Edit-a-thons as Vehicles for Information Literacy" https://t.co/0q7S2XnciK
"[…] integration of…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1829342085977399501

2024-08-27 11:19:29 GMT

"Wiki-VEL: Visual Entity Linking for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons" predicting labels for Wikimedia Commons images based on Wikidata items as the label inventory.
(Bielefeld et al, 2024)
https://t.co/FqZmScBtFH
@frimelle @gdm3000 https://t.co/sAIzwMV03Y
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1828391005550223812

2024-08-26 15:05:35 GMT

"QuanTemp A real-world open-domain benchmark for fact-checking numerical claims" using evidence from various sources including Wikipedia.
(Venktesh V et al, 2024)
@vinaysetty
https://t.co/56wWKAmkhl https://t.co/SNFpv54HCE
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1828085745531465812

2024-08-20 16:49:27 GMT

In the latest issue of our newsletter:
A roundup of recent research on auto-creating Wikipedia-like articles using LLMs or Wikidata-based natural language generation, including STORM (AI agents role-play Wikipedia editors and subject experts) https://t.co/8zw2Bmv7CA https://t.co/GVU65h3bf2
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1825937194055512303

2024-08-19 05:29:15 GMT

Article link network in 6 Wikipedia languages "favors socialism, communism" over capitalism & imperialism in "steady-state opinion polarization" simulation modeled after ferromagnetic interactions (Ising spins).
Also: Christianity vs Islam, US Dems vs GOP https://t.co/fAVkzAJpe8 https://t.co/jUgPIyDFQl
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1825403906165441000

2024-08-15 15:04:02 GMT

"Wikipedia as an Online Health Information Source: Consumers’ Satisfaction with Information Quality"
(Ju et al, 2024)
https://t.co/wcxFrxaaez https://t.co/OnZtAzIHec
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1824099651626176782

2024-08-14 12:39:42 GMT

"Examining Gender and Power on Wikipedia Through Face and Politeness" female Wikipedians are more polite but this distinction nearly vanishes once limiting to editors with administrative power
(@adilsoubki et al, 2024)
https://t.co/L0rnsYg0cV https://t.co/MzolFtrObJ
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1823700054160392484

2024-08-14 03:54:30 GMT

RT @gtcomputing: New research shows that Arabic and multilingual language models (LMs) exhibit bias toward Western culture – even in Arab c…
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1823568191236530185

2024-08-14 01:24:12 GMT

RT @manoelribeiro: Some kinds of computational social science content are just not fit for Twitter! Join us on Reddit to get feedback on pr…
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2024-08-13 15:19:23 GMT

RT @frimelle: It's the last days until the deadline for paper submission to the NLP for Wikipedia workshop at @emnlpmeeting 🎉 We're looking…
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2024-08-13 09:09:45 GMT

"Providing citations to support fact-checking: Contextualizing detection of sentences needing citation on small wikipedias"
(@aidahalitaj and Zubiaga 2024)
https://t.co/Ss5vtPMptd https://t.co/UDKK4XS9WA
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1823285473508204950

2024-08-12 01:44:26 GMT

"Grounded Content Automation: Generation and Verification of Wikipedia in Low-Resou[r]ce languages."
https://t.co/edpBTQE5ax
(thesis, followup on last year's "XWikiGen" paper) https://t.co/ttbldMKRX4
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1822810393171140631

2024-08-08 09:49:15 GMT

"Talking @Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs"
(Koutsiana et al, 2024)
https://t.co/XNQeOIFT2z https://t.co/QDIpFXT9xh
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1821483750166794558

2024-08-07 18:44:12 GMT

Limitations
1) "effect sizes were generally small"
2) based on automated LLM-based tagging (with fairly low F1 scores, and only "moderate to substantial agreement" among human raters)
3) gender results limited to the few "editors [who] self-identify gender on their user page"
3/3 https://t.co/rlrKz2Q2Or
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1821254998678032766

2024-08-07 18:44:12 GMT

"Utterances [by admins] are not more often impolite, however they are significantly [...] less frequently polite".
Similarly, "turns by experienced editors [are] labeled polite 7% less often relative to inexperienced editors."
(2/3) https://t.co/YYkgDF0roB
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2024-08-07 18:44:11 GMT

"female Wikipedians are [...] more polite [...and] this difference corresponds with significantly more language directed at humbling aspects [...]. Interestingly, the distinction nearly vanishes once limiting to editors with administrative power."
(1/3)
https://t.co/rfH2uvfv6q https://t.co/enoRBVMBwr
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2024-08-05 21:39:15 GMT

"Jürgen Habermas Revisited via Tim Cook's Wikipedia Biography" https://t.co/xdTyui6TEE
(questions Wikipedia as "emancipatory technology" by showing how editors' "non-authoritative debate" about disclosing Cook's sexuality was upended by his own "authoritative" Bloomberg essay)
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2024-08-05 10:04:52 GMT

"WILD HALLUCINATIONS: Evaluating Long-form Factuality in LLMs with Real-World Entity Queries" LLMs consistently hallucinate more on entities without Wikipedia pages and exhibit varying hallucination rates across different domains
(Zhao et al, 2024)
https://t.co/5pLSBP324k https://t.co/N3hwGw52ec
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1820399153328853444

2024-08-01 18:24:26 GMT

"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" about information on @wikidata into SPARQL queries (evaluated on a new dataset sourced from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum)
Paper: https://t.co/UOLfNWAPvF
Online tool: https://t.co/MMdgIsk8jw https://t.co/2tBL45ZRnZ
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1819075681994863022

2024-07-30 18:00:52 GMT

"Open Artificial Knowledge" , a large-scale resource of over 500 million tokens of high-quality artificially-generated generated text across diverse domains, guided by Wikipedia’s main categories.
(Borisov and Schreiber)
https://t.co/NTfr9B4bjs https://t.co/7P5RWjwUNq
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2024-07-29 22:00:07 GMT

RT @Tanuyeiro: Digging up Wikipedia: a new paper on public outreach of Archaeology https://t.co/mTT2DPUyf0 https://t.co/VGKHQqamN7
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2024-07-29 10:04:50 GMT

"Can Open-Source LLMs Compete with Commercial Models? Exploring the Few-Shot Performance of Current GPT Models in Biomedical Tasks" commercial VS open-source performance gap exists mainly in zero-shot settings, with Wikipedia context helping in some cases
https://t.co/9FoWGnkVPI https://t.co/TBaGXCg4mK
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1817863259686392157

2024-07-26 17:44:45 GMT

"Exploiting semi-structured information in Wikipedia for knowledge graph construction" (dissertation) https://t.co/l8S0gr6c4T https://t.co/Yvu18XZxMb
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1816891636795998394

2024-07-26 05:05:02 GMT

However, "when being exposed to actual information and global trustworthiness ratings regarding the three information search applications [...], online encyclopedias were rated as most trustworthy"
https://t.co/suyOIrjpdx
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2024-07-26 04:59:32 GMT

Study participants perceived the same text as *less* credible when presented as a Wikipedia article than when encountering it as simulated ChatGPT or Alexa output https://t.co/fSSyNBq1Db https://t.co/ZPVbvr8O2m
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2024-07-26 04:15:00 GMT

RT @SonjaUtz: Our @everydaymediaWG paper on the credibility of ChatGPT is out https://t.co/tmvQWPZ0SD Identical info is perceived as more…
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2024-07-25 18:39:37 GMT

The schedule for @Wikimania 2024 (Aug 7-10) is live, including a research track with 9 presentations: https://t.co/UN8SCZ0UXa
In-person registration deadline: July 26 https://t.co/xzQ24skiwd https://t.co/35nvl0UjyY
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2024-07-23 09:34:39 GMT

📢Join this month's @Wikimedia Research Showcase tomorrow Wednesday, July 24 at 16:30 UTC, on "Machine Translation on Wikipedia"!
Watch the livestream here:
https://t.co/KUbrfnij2S. https://t.co/lWv6aMWIuC
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1815680664630341933

2024-07-22 14:34:13 GMT

"The WikiWooW Dataset - Harnessing Semantic Similarity and Clickstream-data for Serendipity-based Relation Discovery in Wikipedia"
(Palma 2024)
https://t.co/C0FX0Ors3u https://t.co/OZcuDsq2Zs
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1815394561499259340

2024-07-19 09:14:47 GMT

"Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models" with CUBE, a benchmark built out of @Wikidata, to evaluate cultural awareness and cultural diversity of text-to-image models.
(Kannen et al, 2024)
paper: https://t.co/jUDgO4wwge
data: https://t.co/qx32pJ8sKC https://t.co/LlcZ7G4iZB
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1814226672360505484

2024-07-18 14:05:02 GMT

"Seeing Like an AI: How LLMs Apply (and Misapply) Wikipedia Neutrality Norms" Are LLMs’ capable to detect and correct biased Wikipedia edits according to Wikipedia’s Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy?
(@JoshAshkinaze et al, 2024)
https://t.co/lzz455gb0i
@eegilbert https://t.co/UBgsvq62SY
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1813937270346649667

2024-07-17 15:14:56 GMT

"Synthetic Multimodal Question Generation" generating 1024 Q&A pairs directly from Wikipedia documents, conforming to specified styles and modalities, and evaluating state-of-the-art models using it.
(Wu et al, 2024)
https://t.co/bFKlZePztx https://t.co/wpXQ9z8uIQ
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1813593045235122183

2024-07-11 23:04:31 GMT

Paper: "Automatically Generating Hindi Wikipedia Pages using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph: A Domain-Specific Template Sentences Approach" https://t.co/jdVOO4JzmX https://t.co/dl9QzVSw9n https://t.co/lCCl2qj6zQ
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1811536198546129053

2024-07-11 22:54:37 GMT

"Automatic Generation of Hindi Wikipedia Pages" based on information from Wikidata https://t.co/3Z9N37zpW3 (thesis, unrelated to Abstract Wikipedia) https://t.co/OP5n1DdbUN
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1811533619619594600

2024-07-11 14:34:55 GMT

"Citation practices in Wikipedia talk pages: First insights from an unexplored discussion channel" talk pages, although less frequented than articles, engage deeply with scholarly outputs.
(Arroyo-Machado and Torres-Salinas, 2024)
https://t.co/QWFjR0CPpz
@torressalinas https://t.co/hUfDhJJo9Y
via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1811408208071708989