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Research news on @Wikipedia @Wikidata @Wikimedia, hot off the press. Volunteer-curated by @tilmanbayer & @mad_astronaut. Read our newsletter for full coverage

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In the July issue of our newsletter:
* LLMs and Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View"
* 20 years of user blocks
* A look at the Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias
and more: https://t.co/I6QxDAllfA

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@kaizhu717 @threadreaderapp unroll

[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.

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

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In the latest issue of our monthly newsletter:
* Proposed tagging system for AI-involved edits on Wikipedia and Commons
* Successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
https://t.co/HmAcIAvs9Y

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"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)

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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

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"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"

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"Institutionalization and automation of [newcomer adaption] processes in Wikimedia projects" https://t.co/alVEkW9Gcm
"A clear correlation was observed between the number of users registering and the number of people actively editing on Wikipedia."

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"Orthographic Practices in the Alemannic Wikipedia" https://t.co/9eMVxW2cDS
(thesis, finds that the project "promotes broad and inclusive norms and guidelines that allow for multiple, diverse orthographic practices" for the German dialects it covers)

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"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

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"Monitoring the gender gap in the coverage of biology professors on Wikipedia" https://t.co/bqjo1WaiVS
Women "were significantly less likely [to be on WP] until 2018. However,the trend reversed in 2022,and women were 25% more likely than men to have a Wikipedia biography in 2024"

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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

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@Wikipedia @JemielniakD "@Wikipedia at 25: The Encyclopedia That Might Not Last" @JemielniakD follows up on how the extraction of its value by artificial intelligence and other factors might break Wikipedia.

https://t.co/Lhm6twrW9p

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"@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

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Results from the Wikimedia Foundation's 2025 global survey of Wikipedia readers https://t.co/VppOj91BGn

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"WikiMAG: A Multi-Agent Guided Framework for Generating Structured Wikipedia-like Articles" https://t.co/9HJ2t8tOKl
Outperforms earlier efforts (including STORM/Co-STORM), using an open-source LLM (Qwen3-32B)

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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

[Taha Yasseri @TahaYasseri]

Paper out in @PNASNews.
We compared ~18k matched articles Wikipedia vs Grokipedia (@grok-made)
Many Grokip pages closely mirror Wikip, but a substantial subset diverges strongly in structure, sourcing & political orientation, particularly in religion and history @WikiResearch

[Taha Yasseri @TahaYasseri]

Paper out in @PNASNews.
We compared ~18k matched articles Wikipedia vs Grokipedia (@grok-made)
Many Grokip pages closely mirror Wikip, but a substantial subset diverges strongly in structure, sourcing & political orientation, particularly in religion and history @WikiResearch