WikiRank

Quality and popularity assessment of #Wikipedia articles in different languages. Topics based on #Wikidata and #DBpedia. In Wikipedia #Quality we trust ;)

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

Impact of Google AI Overviews on Wikipedia:
"default AIO availability reduced English [Wikipedia] search traffic by 5.45% and 4.82%, respectively" in mid 2024 https://t.co/2bzWSCr1Dr
(NB: revises/retracts 15% estimate for *overall* traffic from the paper's earlier versions)

[Włodzimierz Lewoniewski @lewoniewski]

Evaluating Multilingual #Sentiment Classifiers Using an #LLM-Annotated #Wikipedia Benchmark
#ChatGPT #ClaudeOpus #GoogleGemini
https://t.co/fWXdq8mOeL

[WikiRank @wikiranknet]

🌐🏆 The most prominent websites in Wikipedia information sources: to identify them, more than 400 million references from approximately 68 million articles across more than 300 #Wikipedia language editions were analyzed https://t.co/O6nXPp1nFv

[Wiki Loves Monuments @wikimonuments]

🏛️ Wiki Loves Monuments 2026 starts TODAY! 📸

See which countries are now live and explore the first amazing submissions from September participants on Wikimedia Commons.

🌍 See which countries are live: https://t.co/tNzuQVrbRB

[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

[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

[Wikimedia México @Wikimedia_mx]

Escucha a Wikipedia 🥰🎵

En este sitio web puedes escuchar en tiempo real cuando las personas editan y crean artículos en la enciclopedia o crean su cuenta.

#WikiFact extra: El tono del sonido representa el tamaño de la edición: entre más grande, más grave.

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"Wikipediautism: A Multilingual Analysis of Autism-Related Wikipedia Articles in Six Languages" https://t.co/P8XjhyrOve
E.g. "smaller language communities (Georgian, Norwegian and Italian) showed the highest relative demand"

[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

[africawikiwomen @africawikiwomen]

The Wiki Women Summit just took over Wikimania 2026! 💃🤩

These are gender equity advocates building a safer and more inclusive space for women in free knowledge. 💪

Spot our Africa Wiki Women reps! Can you see them? 😃🤏

#WikiWomenSummit
#Wikimania2026
#AWWinWikimania

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

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

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"Labeling the Spectrum of AI Involvement: New Tag Proposals for Wikipedia and Commons" https://t.co/DpVADdmcL4 (suggests extending the [[Special:Tags]] edit labeling system)

[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.

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

Randomized experiment:
Using a LLM (ChatGPT 5 Instant) in a Wikipedia editing assignment improved undergraduates' "linguistic polish", but had no significant effect on content quality and verifiability (i.e. citation coverage and reliability of sources) https://t.co/BKQBVemJKC

[WikiRank @wikiranknet]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Włodzimierz Lewoniewski @lewoniewski]

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

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

"Designing for Human–AI Collaboration in Open Knowledge Work":
Lessons from the failure of the Wikimedia Foundation's "Computer Aided Tagging" tool on Wikimedia Commons https://t.co/yfSCidpsLc

[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

[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]

See also the review of an earlier version of this paper (and other research comparing Grokipedia and Wikipedia) in the December issue of our newsletter: https://t.co/3pv5ltvMSs