Notices by WikiResearch (wikiresearch@mastodon.social)

Analysis of the links in answers from "web-enabled AI engines": https://t.co/Db4loKWNGr
"ChatGPT [GPT-4o] shows a relatively concentrated pattern, relying heavily on Wikipedia (∼19.7% of citations)", compared to e.g. only 1.6% in Perplexity https://t.co/9NQsknENd0

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1978251957685911591

"Vandalism or Knowledge Manipulation? Detecting Narratives in Wikipedia Edits", by training a BERT-based classifier on edits from Russia's Wikipedia fork (thesis) https://t.co/UxMBy83u2h https://t.co/GYTOwvbjez

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1959845781692882957

"Research Report Nº 12" on the activities of the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team from January through June 2025
https://t.co/1OJhKxKNBl

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1953968372624109738

"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

"Exploring Wikipedia Gender Diversity Over Time — The Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD)" https://t.co/KFQenlYFyQ
("the percentage of female articles published by [English] Wikipedia increased steadily from 6.98% in the year 2001 to 23.24% in 2022")
Project: https://t.co/r4g1VBPb22 https://t.co/glqh6Ooswf

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1882688304627527778

"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

"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

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

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1816543728020124033

"The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities" Question volumes at Stack Overflow decline around topics where ChatGPT excels, but Reddit communities shows no decline, suggesting the importance of social fabric.

(Burtch et al, 2024)

https://t.co/orTlyVzgFS https://t.co/BlqmoSZBdM

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1788135260439400894

Wikimedia Foundation invites feedback on a whitepaper about "Wikimedia Research Best Practices Around Privacy" (until April 30) https://t.co/RoaPoFbjuI

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1780788698117972321

"Evaluating Large Language Models on Wikipedia-Style Survey Generation" examining the proficiency of LLMs in generating succinct survey articles specific to the niche field of NLP in computer science, on a list of 99 topics.

(Gao et al, 2024)

https://t.co/NOpfd9Bmhb https://t.co/ovcyYcLUZh

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1773323233866956952

"Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models", exploring the interplay between representation, accessibility, and LLMs on Wikipedia

https://t.co/ktz23WuuqF #paywalled
@zachmcdowell

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1770106416524632317

RT @wikiresearch: In the new issue of our monthly newsletter:
• Wikipedia's images "amplify gender bias", whereas its text is quite neutra…

— WikiResearch (@wikiresearch)
Mar 11, 2024

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1767272450604376477

RT by @wikiresearch: 🚀 Excited to share our latest working paper on how the recent advance in AI technology, specifically Machine Translation, is reshaping knowledge access across languages @dylanwalker

Link to paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4708614 https://twitter.com/kaizhu717/status/1752754554603540765

RT by @wikiresearch: our new paper with @makoshark and @katestarbird (forthcoming in CSCW) looks at how similar language editions on wikipedia deal with the threat of "governance capture" – the takeover of a project's mechanisms of governance by a small group of users.

https://blog.communitydata.science/governance-capture/ https://twitter.com/zkharazian/status/1747314407754076553

RT by @wikiresearch: In our new pre-print (w/@shagunjhaver @cervisiarius), we study how 165 deplatforming events impacted online attention toward influencers (n=101; using Google Trends & Wikipedia Pageviews).

TL;DR: deplatforming (even temporary) decreased online attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01253 https://twitter.com/manoelribeiro/status/1742630250154958880

"Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review", analyzing the research literature from 2007 to 2022 https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.nov.17 https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1740259881679311097

Are you a member of the Wikimedia developer community? Take the Developer Satisfaction Survey, and help the @Wikimedia Foundation support the community!

👉 https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/796964 (deadline Jan 5)

[image: 2023 DSS phabricator ranked features.png, CMyrick-WMF, CC BY-SA 4.0] https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1736793022824628689

"Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia" Using an agent-based model, the study shows toxicity attacks on Wikipedia have the potential to impede the progress of the entire project.

(Smirnov et al, 2023)

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/12/pgad385/7457939 https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1736679379462238639

A directory of Wikimedia research projects that are planned, underway or have recently been completed (by the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the research and editor community) - you can add yours too: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1735761590673117229