A question came up in today's Research Showcase (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#January_2021)
about good examples of cross-wiki research (and where to learn more about
people doing this work). To me, cross-wiki might encompass both research
that directly compares different language editions of Wikipedia or
different projects entirely such as Wikipedia vs. Wikidata. I wanted to
start a thread to collect examples. A few to jumpstart it, though most of
these are about comparing language editions as opposed to projects:
- [Content] Urban/rural dynamics in content in English Wikipedia + US,
Chinese Wikipedia + China, and OpenStreetMap in US and China:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10954
- [Content] Portrayals of LGBT People in English, Russian, and Spanish
Wikipedia:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10820
- [Content] WikiRank (
https://www.wikirank.net/) and related
publications:
https://blog.wikirank.net/about/
- [Content] Wikipedia Diversity Observatory (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diversity_Observatory) and
related publications:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diversity_Observatory/Papers
- [Content/Contributors] Patterns in localness of editors/sources across
many languages of Wikipedia and countries:
http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/VGI_Barriers_Sen_CHI…
- [Contributors] Multilingual editor patterns:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0976
- [Content/Readers] Alignment of quality and pageviews in English,
Russian, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias:
https://brenthecht.com/publications/wikipedia_supplydemandquality_icwsm2015…
- [Readers] Wikipedia reader motivation across 14 languages:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.00474.pdf
- [Editors] Many editor surveys (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editor_surveys)
- [Readers] Many reader surveys (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reader_surveys)
- [Content] Sources on Wikipedia vs. Wikidata:
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/412922/1/opensym_wd_vs_wp_2_.pdf
Best,
Isaac
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Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation