Wikimedia Research

Welcome to the new home of Wikimedia Research.

Mandate
Our mission is to produce knowledge about Wikimedia’s users and projects. We use qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic insights and technological solutions to the Wikimedia movement and the Wikimedia Foundation, to foster innovation and to inform the development of new products. Our audience includes the Wikimedia Foundation's audience teams, members of the Wikimedia community, and external academic and research partners. Wikimedia Research brings together Design Research (formerly part of UX) and Research and Data (formerly part of Analytics).

Top Priorities
These are our current priorities for the 2015-16 fiscal year.

Projects
We're building a comprehensive list of projects driven or supported by Wikimedia Research. Our work is publicly tracked on Phabricator: check out the following boards to see what each team is up to: