BestRef

The BestRef database contains results of assessment of over 3 million websites in different language versions of @Wikipedia.

[BestRef @BestRefNet]

📢 #BestRef July 2026 update!
🔬4.2 million websites from more than 400 million #Wikipedia references across 300+ language editions were analyzed.
🌍 This update provides a unique view of the sources @Wikipedia relies on most.
🔍 Try it now: https://t.co/4V7DQD3nGa

[Włodzimierz Lewoniewski @lewoniewski]

🌐 Which websites matter most as information sources on #Wikipedia?

📊 More than 400M citations from 68M articles across 300+ language editions were analyzed, taking into account both citation frequency and article popularity.

🚀 Explore more: https://t.co/GW4FWAZyFn

[WikiRank @wikiranknet]

📊 The obvious way to measure popularity of #Wikipedia articles is to count how many people read it.

🌐 #Wikilink analysis asks a different question: how many other articles depend on this page as a reference point?

💡 Measuring Wikipedia by #Wikilinks: https://t.co/o6m8Irv98m

[Kai Zhu @kaizhu717]

New paper with Dylan Walker, now open access in Management Science: "The AI Democratization Paradox."

We ask: when AI lowers barriers to knowledge production, does it democratize participation, or amplify existing inequality?

A thread on Wikipedia + AI translation.

[Wikimedia NYC @WikimediaNYC]

🎉 With Wikimania in full swing, the 2026 Wikimedian of the Year winners have been announced: French Wikipedia's Jules* (top honor), Laureates Dreamyshade & Barkeep49, Community Connector Chlod Alejandro, plus honorees Mari Avetisyan & Hijiri Umemoto. 🌍📚

https://t.co/UaIoIEi6EP

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"Multilingual Reference Need Assessment System for Wikipedia", using a BERT-based model https://t.co/KumKLQPYEn
(Model card: https://t.co/DxZzf9YXGk )

[Włodzimierz Lewoniewski @lewoniewski]

🎬 Watch the dynamic history and evolution of #Wikisource from its inception in 2003 all the way to 2026! https://t.co/33qqnOPPRq

[Cristian Consonni @CristianCantoro]

Honored to have received the this award for our demo "Wikipedia Community Health Dashboards", check them out here:
https://t.co/RKGqvHNM6W

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages" https://t.co/z0p1oyT6AU (Data and code: https://t.co/jjSgdde5LP )
"SLMs [small language models] outperform LLMs on monolingual CND"

[Włodzimierz Lewoniewski @lewoniewski]

🇮🇹🎥 Introduzione alla valutazione automatica della qualità di #Wikipedia
https://t.co/Z1m7NhkJEI

[BestRef @BestRefNet]

@arena @nvidia Are there any plans to add Claude Opus 4.8?

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

In the latest issue of our newsletter:
* "Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language" (with Wikifunctions/Abstract Wikipedia)
And other recent research publications involving Wikidata and Wikipedia
https://t.co/qPKXQR4hgo

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"@Wikipedia at 25: The Encyclopedia That Shouldn't Exist" @JemielniakD on how its governance structure, quality control mechanisms, and integration into educational practice make Wikipedia work.

https://t.co/REbUUZYnuI

[Włodzimierz Lewoniewski @lewoniewski]

🎬 The most cited articles on #Wikipedia.
📊 1.6 billion unique links between English Wikipedia pages were analyzed using dumps from May 2026.
#DataVisualization #DataViz #BarChart #OpenData #NetworkAnalysis #WikiLinks #DataScience
https://t.co/q7MXpNVwvj

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age" (book review) https://t.co/mXKNX4GuDw
"Wikipedia as epistemic infrastructure represents a new order of knowledge production"

[KIE UEP @kie_uep]

⚖️ Is #Wikipedia truly neutral?
Our researchers explored this question using various AI models, analyzing around 7 million English Wikipedia articles with #TextBlob, #VADER, #RoBERTa and #DistilBERT.
Presented at #IJCAI2025. #ncbr #infostrategi
Details: https://t.co/87r3buOWav

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"The hypothesis: AI assistants intercept a growing share of informational queries that would previously have ended on Wikipedia. The effect should be strongest on evergreen 'what is X' articles" https://t.co/qt2BqvJLO1 (post by @martinmonperrus )

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"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)"

[Włodzimierz Lewoniewski @lewoniewski]

⚖️ Cross-Topic #SentimentAnalysis of #Wikipedia Articles: A Comparative Study of AI Models:
⮞ 7M Wikipedia articles 📚🌍
⮞ 4 sentiment models (#TextBlob #VADER #RoBERTa #DistilBERT) 🤖📊
⮞ diverse topics and quality levels 🧩📈
https://t.co/t5zbVCWCOc

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"Nature of sources cited in German-language Wikipedia pages on German Christmas Markets" https://t.co/Nr7Lj2sJWz
Mainly "newspaper articles and websites run by market organisers or destination marketing bodies"; "formal publications, and archival sources are used less frequently"