[Moving the WMF internal lists to Bcc. Adding wiki-research-l, the public mailing list for research related questions.] Hi Ritvik, Thank you for reaching out to us and your interest to do research with the Wikimedia projects' data. I'm particularly excited to read that you are already thinking about giving back to the commons by data, knowledge, and insights. We love that. :) Regarding the specific data that you wrote about: * Our team, Research, is responsible for setting up Formal Collaborations that allow the type of research that you mention in your email. At this time, we are only able to prioritize and initiate formal collaborations that are in-line with our annual plan commitments and I expect that to stay the same in the coming 8 months. I'm sorry that we can't explore together a formal collaboration at this point. * However, thanks to the nudges by some folks from the research community and this list, we took steps to find a pathway to share some of Wikipedia's COVID-19 related data with the research community. While the decision about what to publish is not finalized, I do expect to see a geographical dimension associated with pageviews as part of the release (the granularity of which is to be determined). You can read more about the details of the data that we are currently keeping at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines#Exceptions_to_the… . I am sorry that we cannot have a fast turnaround for your request. I do believe, however, that by reserving more time to work on the question of how to release the data publicly, we can unlock more research and also provide a more equitable path for this highly important dataset and many key research questions that can be answered with it. Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:34 AM Ramakrishnan, Ritvik <ritvik.ramakrishnan(a)gatech.edu> wrote: