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Mostly a placeholder until we can bring our feed of volunteer-curated Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikimedia research news to this platform too. For full coverage subscribe to our newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter

"Figure 9: Blocks for promotion and sock puppetry as a proportion of all blocks over time" [on English Wikipedia] (from McGrady 2025)

A table listing the 13 research fund proposals under consideration (screenshot of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Start#Alternative_overview_of_the_research_fund_proposals_under_further_consideration )

Image of various pills, with text: 'Readers use Wikipedia's health content "to learn more", "to improve decision-making" and "for self-advocacy".' (from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2025/April )

Plot showing evidence for a decrease in pageviews for LLM-similar Wikipedia articles (including a figure from Liang Lyu, James Siderius, Hannah Li, Daron Acemoglu, Daniel Huttenlocher, Asuman Ozdaglar, "Wikipedia Contributions in the Wake of ChatGPT", CC BY 4.0)

chart "Fraction of OA citations by publication date of citation" (figure 3 from Puyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib, Robert West, Giovanni Colavizza, "Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia", https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4 , BB BY 4.0)

chart showing average aggregated scores of human evaluation for edit summaries for edits on English Wikipedia. (Figure 4 from Šakota, Marija; Johnson, Isaac; Feng, Guosheng; West, Robert (2024-04-04), Edisum: Summarizing and Explaining Wikipedia Edits at Scale. CC-BY 4.0)

"Original Barnstar", by SunirShah, public domain

AI-generated illustration of a human writer and a creature with the head and wings of a crow, both sitting and typing on their own laptops, experiencing mild hallucinations

Ouroboros-Zanaq_00.svg (by Eugenio Hansen, OFS, CC BY-SA 4.0)