Wikimedia Research

Welcome to the home of Wikimedia Research.

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We are a team of data scientists, UX researchers, and engineers at the Wikimedia Foundation using data to understand and empower millions of readers and contributors who interact with Wikipedia and its sister projects on a daily basis. We turn research questions into publicly shared knowledge, we design and test new technology, we produce empirical insights to support product and engineering decisions and we publish research informing the organization’s and the movement’s strategy. We are strongly committed to principles of transparency, privacy and collaboration; we use free and open source technology and we collaborate with researchers in the industry and academia.

Projects
The list of projects we're working on between July 2017 and June 2018, as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2017-2018 annual plan, is available here: Our work is publicly tracked on this workboard:

Our goals are captured on a quarterly basis for each fiscal year (Q1: July-September; Q2: October-December; Q3: January-March; Q4: April-June). An overview of our goals quarter by quarter can be found here.

Collaborations
We collaborate with external researchers in a variety of forms. You can read more on formal collaborations on this page.

Resources

 * Our research reports mostly live in the Research namespace on Meta
 * We host every month a showcase where we present publicly our work. We occasionally invite guest speakers involved in Wikimedia research. You can browse past editions of the showcase on this page. The showcase has been running monthly since December 2013.
 * If you're interested in staying on top of both internal and external research on our projects, check out our monthly newsletter (which you can also subscribe to by mail) or follow @WikiResearch on Twitter. The newsletter is mostly volunteer effort coordinated by Tilman and Dario and has been proudly running since April 2011.
 * You can reach us on IRC via the irc:wikimedia-research channel or drop us a line at (.