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_CHI2015.pdf - [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.pdf - [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 -- Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
