Talk:Wikimedia Research/Showcase
Add topicMarch 2025 showcase
[edit]Hi @User:KGordon (WMF), can you add the details for the March session here, since the banner for International Women's Day will go up next week? Ciell (talk) 14:10, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Ciell. I've added some basic details and I will have more information (abstracts, papers, etc.) by the end of next week. I hope this is okay. KGordon (WMF) (talk) 11:47, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
- This is already great, thanks! Ciell (talk) 11:53, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
A Wikipedia-centric world
[edit]Hello,
Is there any plan to challenge the inequity of focus toward only one of the 16+ Wikimedia Projects? I am very happy to know there is a Wikimedia Research Team, but looking at recent talks, it would rather sound like a Wikipedia Research Team. Is there plan to (for example) compare Wiktionary with academic and private dictionaries? Wikisource specific relation with GLAMs? Why people are readers of Wikiquote? Are Wikiversity editors all academics? Is Wikivoyage promote places that other guides are ignoring because it is crowd-sourced? What is the reader path from one project to the others (starting from Wikisource to Wiktionary to Wikipedia, are they transit through Wikidata and how do they feel about this path?)? What are the workflows of multiproject contributors? There is much more question beyond Wikipedia. Is there a space to develop research on those? 🙂 Noé (talk) 09:44, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- This is not a direct answer (certainly not from the Research team) but you might find m:Movement Insights interesting. I was happy to see a report from the Movement Insight team that included Wikimedia Commons. It looks like that was the only non-Wikipedia project included in the particular study, though. whym (talk) 13:20, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Noé. Thank you for your question.
- Our Research Showcases are organized by our team to recognize and share recent research on or relevant to the Wikimedia projects. While we often feature research by our team, most showcases highlight work by external contributors and don’t necessarily reflect our priorities for research.
- For instance, we’ve featured research on Wikidata, such as in January 2023, June 2023, and December 2024, exploring how it interacts with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
- We’re always open to suggestions and would welcome recommendations for researchers or specific studies focusing on projects like Wiktionary, Wikisource, or Wikivoyage. There’s definitely space for further exploration of these areas, and we’d be happy to help amplify this kind of research. KGordon (WMF) (talk) 18:07, 21 March 2025 (UTC)