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The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Kaiserslautern and Saarbruecken), the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (Bochum), The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Freiburg) are jointly recruiting up to 8 highly qualified Post-Docs interested in Computational Social Science. This application call is targeted to the broad topic of artificial intelligence, computing, and society.
The Network of Principal Investigators (PI) focuses on "scientifically motivated engineering" to design, build, and test digital prototypes-such as machine learning models and large language models-that serve as "microscopes" for the social sciences.
The detailed job announcement including the themes and projects that we are interested in addressing
can be found on our website: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/max_planck_p…
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and professors in the Wikimedia research community, may wish to share this
opportunity with students in classes related to art, data management,
social sciences, or related fields.
Thanks, Giovanna.
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From: Giovanna Fontenelle via Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Subject: [libraries] Open Data + Wikimedia Internship at the National
Gallery of Art
To: GLAM <glam(a)wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & Libraries <
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Giovanna Fontenelle <gfontenelle(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi GLAM-Wiki community,
I was asked to share this opportunity with you. It's also available for
international candidates, and they offer a cost-of-living/relocation
stipend. Good luck! :)
*Opportunity: Open Data Internship at the National Gallery of Art*
Academic Year Internships page:
https://www.nga.gov/employment-opportunities/academic-year-internships
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nga.gov_employment…>
.
Program basics:
- Deadline: April 6, 2026 by 5:00pm ET
- Dates: September 22, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (34 weeks), full-time
- Compensation: Total stipend amount is $34,353.60 + $6,868
cost-of-living stipend (disbursed during the year)
- How to apply: applicants must apply through the National Gallery’s
online application portal (no email submissions)
We're particularly interested in applicants with interests/backgrounds in
digital/cultural heritage areas. A short description follows for the open
data internship project we're hoping to place:
*Digital Solutions and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
seek an intern to experiment with public data services and to develop
strategies for Open Data and Wikimedia for National Gallery of Art
collections of artworks and archives. We want to expand our GitHub presence
to offer a “Lab Space” for experimental projects that create new,
open-source tools to discover artworks, archives, and library collections.
The intern will be part of a dynamic, cross-department team and will
directly support data mapping and reconciliation projects. They will also
collect and analyze student and user input about preferences and requests
for the current Open Data presence and for future iterations. Starting from
experiments and learning, together we will work across departments towards
drafting a publishable article or research paper about the experience
and lessons learned for GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and
Museums).*
If anyone has questions, feel free to share emails for our Digital Research
Officer Matt Westerby (m-westerby(a)nga.gov), myself as Manager for Analytics
and Enterprise Architecture (k-krut(a)nga.gov), and our Manager of
Pre-Professional Programs George Luna-Pena (g-luna-pena(a)nga.gov).
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Content Enablement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Advancement/Community_…>
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Dear All WikiResearchers,
Recently our team has been working on a brief perspective piece
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1afaK8YFITdXAuaehtFTiC3X14LR85nnz-jOw5Uj…>
that is a general call for more academic engagement with Wikimedia, also as
a follow on to Dariusz Jemielniak's recent pieces.
We will (hopefully) be hosting an unconference at WikiWorkshop to discuss
this paper, and this is in a general call for co-authors and signatories to
join the paper and effort. and an effort to get the paper out there before
so we can talk about it then. The idea is that the more people are on the
paper, the more powerful it is, and also everyone can get symbolically paid
through the citations to it rather than only a few of us. and ideally
everyone gets a nature paper ;) Obviously we also want to take in your
suggestions and cite any projects that you think are relevant.
This is part of our ongoing efforts to make it more valu-able to be part of
the WikiResearch community, and to increase the sustainability of the
community in general. Another topic I would like to talk about at the
unconference is building grantmaking networks.
All feedback welcome, See you there,
Brett Buttliere, phd
University of Warsaw
Invitation to participate in round 2 of the Futures of Digital Democracy
Survey (FDDS)
Hello,
https://digital-democracy.net/d/index.php/285954
We want to invite you to participate in the second round of an expert
survey that addresses a key political topic of our time: the future of
democracy in the digital age and the rise of authoritarianism.
The EU research project INNOVADE: Innovative Democracy through
Digitalisation https://innovade-democracy.eu/ studies digital democracy.
Paderborn University’s INNOVADE research team (led by Christian Fuchs)
runs the Futures of Digital Democracy Survey (FDDS):
hhttps://digital-democracy.net/d/index.php/285954
In round 1, digital democracy experts assessed the opportunities and
risks of digital democracy.
Building on the results of round 1 and reporting some of the round 1
results, we invite you to now take part in round 2 and to reflect on the
round 1 results and additional topics. The focus of round 2 is the
question of how (digital) society should and could look like in 2036 -
desirable and undesirable digital futures and how we can achieve
desirable futures and avoid undesirable ones.
Participation will take around 10 minutes:
https://digital-democracy.net/d/index.php/285954
The goal of the survey is to analyse how digital media experts assess
the potential futures of digital society.
The datasets of both survey rounds will be published as open data in the
open research repository zenodo.org
INNVADE will use the results of the survey as inputs to European Union
policy debates on the future of democracy.
We’d be happy if you were able to participate.
Below you find some links to research that INNOVADE has already
conducted on the topic of digital democracy.
With kind regards
Christian Fuchs
on behalf of the Paderborn University INNOVADE research team
Relevant INNOVADE reports and outputs:
Digital Democracy Score (DDS): a prototype for measuring digital democracy
https://www.digital-democracy.net
Christian Fuchs: What is and How Do We Achieve a Resilient Digital
Democracy?
https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2
Christian Fuchs, Joel Museba, Kevin Friesch: White Paper: The Futures of
Digital Democracy.
https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.22910.1
Christian Fuchs (Editor) Interdisciplinary Knowledge Base on Digital
Democracy.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17079016
INNOVADE newsletter subscription (project updates):
https://innovade-democracy.eu/newsletter
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Christian Fuchs
Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation,
Professor für Mediensysteme und Medienorganisation
Paderborn University, Universität Paderborn
Department of Media Studies, Institut für Medienwissenschaften
https://fuchsc.net
christian.fuchs(a)upb.de
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From: (:Julien:) via Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2026: Research track open till March 31st
To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: <fayolle.julien(a)gmail.com>
Hi all,
I'm a member of Wikimania (July 21-25 in Paris) program committee for the
research track. The research track is open until **March 31st**. The other
tracks are closed.
The research track accepts proposal by both professional researchers and
Wikimedians. Our goal is to foster discussions between the research
community and the Wikimedia communities, mostly regarding structural
changes or challenges for the future of our projects. The effects of
generative AI, community growth & diversity, and "reliability at scale" are
themes we envision but several others are possible as long as they stay on
the broad themes: Freedom, Equity, and Reliability.
You can find more details here:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Program/Research
If you need additional information, feel free to reach me.
Have a nice day,
Julien.
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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research<http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en> (MPIDR) is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Group on Labor Demography<http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/research_6120/labor_demography_4733/>.
We welcome applications from researchers with a PhD in demography, statistics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, public health, or allied fields. Depending on background and interests, the successful candidate will work on a project aimed at understanding which factors are shaping the length of working life; and/or on projects in survival analysis and causal inference. The candidate will develop their own agenda within these project(s). We are seeking creative, self-driven, and collaborative scholars. Strong quantitative analysis skills are required, as is knowledge of R, Stata, or Python.
More information about this vacancy can be found here: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/post_doctora…
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From: Jonathan Tweed via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] New global API rate limits
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Jonathan Tweed <jtweed(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi all
To help ensure fair and sustainable access
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Content_Reuse>
to Wikimedia resources, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will
implement global API rate limits across our APIs.
Why we’re doing this
As we’ve shared over the last year
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of…>,
since 2024 we’ve observed a significant rise in automated requests, across
scraping, APIs and bulk downloads. This is continuing to cause
unsustainable load on our infrastructure, taking time and resources away
that we need to support the Wikimedia projects, contributors and readers.
To ensure we can continue to provide preferential access for human and
mission-oriented traffic, we need to reduce the amount of unidentified
requests to our APIs from its current level of around 33%. This reduction
will also enable us to improve governance around fair use, in line with our API
Usage Guidelines
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_API_Usage…>
.
What we’re doing
In early March, we will apply low limits to anonymous API requests that
originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and requests that are made from web
browsers. In early April, higher limits will be applied to identified
traffic, including authenticated requests.
Authenticated requests from a user in the ‘bot’ user group on any wiki will
not be subject to these new limits, nor will clients which are well known
to the Wikimedia Foundation. API requests from Toolforge/WMCS will also be
exempt from rate limits for now.
Regardless, all developers are encouraged to familiarise themselves with
the new limits and associated best practices to ensure they are not
misclassified as abusive traffic. You can find this information at Wikimedia
APIs/Rate limits <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs/Rate_limits>
.
What this means in practice
Tools that use Wikimedia-hosted APIs, including Gadgets that make API
requests, may be subject to new cross-API limits that are global across all
Wikimedia projects. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible
to minimise impact on the community.
We are asking developers to identify their requests to access higher
limits. Tools running in Toolforge/WMCS are exempted for now, but we
request that you follow the User-Agent policy
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agen…>
and provide a meaningful User-Agent to help us correctly identify the
source of traffic.
Otherwise, authenticating using session cookies or OAuth 2.0 will grant a
higher limit. Where the authenticated user has the community approved bot
right on any wiki, this will also exempt you from limits, even when the
tool is not running on Toolforge/WMCS.
This request for authentication is a change from the previous guidance in
the Robot policy, which suggested not authenticating to improve cache hit
rates. We do not expect any significant impact from this change with
current usage patterns and will be working over the next year to improve
caching for authenticated requests.
Community impact
A key principle throughout this work has been to ensure responsible use of
our infrastructure, whilst minimizing the impact on the community. Our
communities rely on a broad ecosystem of bots and other tools to create and
maintain the wikis, created by a dedicated group of technical volunteers.
These limits are being put in place to protect our projects from high
levels of abuse and ensure that we are able to better insulate our
community infrastructure from high-volume commercial usage. They are
necessary to ensure that developers are using the most appropriate
channels, giving us the ability to prioritize the community and our human
readers.
Ideally, members of Wikimedia communities will not be affected by this
change. However, it is possible that a small number of bots and other tools
which operate at a very high rate may get rate limited. We ask you to
follow the best practices and are here to help bot operators get the access
they need.
What we need you to do
If you are a developer that uses Wikimedia APIs, we ask you to:
-
Read more about the new limits
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs/Rate_limits> and the
updated Robot policy <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Robot_policy>
-
Update your tools/bots to follow the new best practices
Should you require a higher rate of access, you are able to:
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Request the bot flag <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots> from
your local wiki community
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Consider running in Toolforge or another WMCS offering
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Use Wikimedia Enterprise APIs
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise#Access> for
high-volume usage
-
Contact the WMF at bot-traffic(a)wikimedia.org
Best
Jonathan
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Senior Product Manager, Core Platform
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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