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Volume 15 (2025)

WRN 15(06) – June 2025: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians
(The May 2025 issue was skipped.)
WRN 15(04) – April 2025: How readers use Wikipedia health content; scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
WRN 15(03) – March 2025: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
WRN 15(02) – February 2025: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
WRN 15(01) – January 2025: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians

Volume 14 (2024)

WRN 14(12) – December 2024: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
WRN 14(11) – November 2024: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
WRN 14(10) – October 2024: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
WRN 14(09) – September 2024: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
WRN 14(08) – August 2024: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment
WRN 14(07) – July 2024: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems
WRN 14(06) – June 2024: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
WRN 14(05) – May 2024: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
WRN 14(04) – April 2024: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
WRN 14(03) – March 2024: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
WRN 14(02) – February 2024: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
WRN 14(01) – January 2024: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

Volume 13 (2023)

WRN 13(12) – December 2023: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
WRN 13(11) – November 2023: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
WRN 13(10) – October 2023: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
WRN 13(09) – September 2023: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
WRN 13(08) – August 2023: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
WRN 13(07) – July 2023: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
WRN 13(06) – June 2023: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
WRN 13(05) – May 2023: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
WRN 13(04) – April 2023: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
WRN 13(03) – March 2023: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
WRN 13(02) – February 2023: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
WRN 13(01) – January 2023: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias

Volume 12 (2022)

WRN 12(12) – December 2022: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
WRN 12(11) – November 2022: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
WRN 12(10) – October 2022: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?
WRN 12(09) – September 2022: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future
WRN 12(08) – August 2022: The dollar value of "official" external links
WRN 12(07) – July 2022: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
WRN 12(06) – June 2022: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
WRN 12(05) – May 2022: 35 million Twitter links analysed
WRN 12(04) – April 2022: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images
WRN 12(03) – March 2022: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures
WRN 12(02) – February 2022: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
WRN 12(01) – January 2022: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"

Volume 11 (2021)

WRN 11(12) – December 2021: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph
WRN 11(11) – November 2021: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
WRN 11(10) – October 2021: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
WRN 11(09) – September 2021: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
WRN 11(08) – August 2021: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
WRN 11(07) – July 2021: Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility
WRN 11(06) – June 2021: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report: Summaries of 26 new research publications

(The May 2021 issue was skipped.)

WRN 11(04) – April 2021: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
WRN 11(03) – March 2021: 10%–30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
WRN 11(02) – February 2021: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism
WRN 11(01) – January 2021: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers do

Volume 10 (2020)

WRN 10(12) – December 2020: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
WRN 10(11) – November 2020: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
WRN 10(10) – October 2020: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
WRN 10(09) – September 2020: Wikipedia's flood biases
WRN 10(08) – August 2020: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
WRN 10(07) – July 2020: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia
WRN 10(06) – June 2020: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
WRN 10(05) – May 2020: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
WRN 10(04) – April 2020: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
WRN 10(03) – March 2020: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia
WRN 10(02) – February 2020: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone: And other new research results
WRN 10(01) – January 2020: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

Volume 9 (2019)

WRN 9(12) – December 2019: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary: 15 recent papers, and other research news.
WRN 9(11) – November 2019: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews: And other new research publications.
WRN 9(10) – October 2019: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
WRN 9(9) – September 2019: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
WRN 9(8) – August 2019: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
WRN 9(7) – July 2019: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
WRN 9(6) – June 2019: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
WRN 9(5) – May 2019: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?
WRN 9(4) – April 2019: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
WRN 9(3) – March 2019: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
WRN 9(2) – February 2019: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers
WRN 9(1) – January 2019: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

Volume 8 (2018)

(The December 2018 issue was skipped.)

WRN 8(11) – November 2018: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize
WRN 8(10) – October 2018: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion
WRN 8(9) – September 2018: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
WRN 8(8) – August 2018: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
WRN 8(7) – July 2018: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons
WRN 8(6) – June 2018: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry; Wikipedians 'driven by a sense of mission', according to researchers.
WRN 8(5) – May 2018: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

(The March-April 2018 issues were skipped.)

WRN 8(2) – February 2018: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
WRN 8(1) – January 2018: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?

Volume 7 (2017)

(The October–December 2017 issues were skipped.)

WRN 7(09) – September 2017: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"; quality comparisons across languages; perceptions of credibility
WRN 7(08) – August 2017: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
WRN 7(07) – July 2017: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
WRN 7(06) – June 2017: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
WRN 7(05) – May 2017: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by 9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
WRN 7(04) – April 2017: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers
WRN 7(03) – March 2017: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?
WRN 7(02) – February 2017: Wikipedia bots fight - or do they?; personality and attitudes to Wikipedia; large expert review experiment
WRN 7(01) – January 2017: Special issue: Wikipedia in education

Volume 6 (2016)

WRN 6(12) – December 2016: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia
WRN 6(11) – November 2016: Privacy risks as perceived by Tor users and Wikipedians
WRN 6(10) – October 2016: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia
WRN 6(09) – September 2016: Wikipedia Dispute Index a mixed bag; how motivations differ among contributor roles
WRN 6(08) – August 2016: AI-generated articles and research ethics; anonymous edits and vandalism fighting ethics
WRN 6(07) – July 2016: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
WRN 6(06) – June 2016: Using deep learning to predict article quality; search engine helps school kids navigate Chinese Wikipedia; talk page sentiment
WRN 6(05) – May 2016: English as Wikipedia's lingua franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
WRN 6(04) – April 2016: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?
WRN 6(03) – March 2016: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles
WRN 6(02) – February 2016: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?
WRN 6(01) – January 2016: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling

Volume 5 (2015)

WRN 5(12) – December 2015: Teaching Wikipedia; Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
WRN 5(11) – November 2015: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
WRN 5(10) – October 2015: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
WRN 5(9) – September 2015: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?
WRN 5(8) – August 2015: OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
WRN 5(7) – July 2015: Wikipedia as an example of collective intelligence; #Wikipedia and Twitter
WRN 5(6) – June 2015: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
WRN 5(5) – May 2015: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
WRN 5(4) – April 2015: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
WRN 5(3) – March 2015: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
WRN 5(2) – February 2015: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
WRN 5(1) – January 2015: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

Volume 4 (2014)

WRN 4(12) – December 2014: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting
WRN 4(11) – November 2014: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
WRN 4(10) – October 2014: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
WRN 4(9) – September 2014: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
WRN 4(8) – August 2014: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
WRN 4(7) – July 2014: Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language vandalism detection; translations from 53 Wiktionaries
WRN 4(6) – June 2014: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects; the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies
WRN 4(5) – May 2014: Overview of research on Wikipedia's readers; predicting which article you will edit next
WRN 4(4) – April 2014: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Wikipedia
WRN 4(3) – March 2014: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped
WRN 4(2) – February 2014: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism; like-minded editors clustered; Wikipedia stylistic norms as a model for academic writing
WRN 4(1) – January 2014: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

Volume 3 (2013)

WRN 3(12) – December 2013: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments
WRN 3(11) – November 2013: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia
WRN 3(10) – October 2013: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. YouTube
WRN 3(9) – September 2013: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?
WRN 3(8) – August 2013: WikiSym 2013 retrospective
WRN 3(7) – July 2013: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview
WRN 3(6) – June 2013: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets
WRN 3(5) – May 2013: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?
WRN 3(4) – April 2013: Sentiment monitoring; Wikipedians and academics favor the same papers; UNESCO and systemic bias; How ideas flow on Wikiversity
WRN 3(3) – March 2013: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages
WRN 3(2) – February 2013: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers; EPOV instead of NPOV
WRN 3(1) – January 2013: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics

Volume 2 (2012)

WRN 2(12) – December 2012: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
WRN 2(11) – November 2012: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
WRN 2(10) – October 2012: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news
WRN 2(9) – September 2012: "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012
WRN 2(8) – August 2012: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'
WRN 2(7) – July 2012: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; Best Wiki Paper Award
WRN 2(6) – June 2012: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere
WRN 2(5) – May 2012: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph
WRN 2(4) – April 2012: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more
WRN 2(3) – March 2012: Predicting admin elections by editor status and similarity; flagged revision debates in multiple languages; Wikipedia literature reviewed
WRN 2(2) – February 2012: CSCW 2012 in review; gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative
WRN 2(1) – January 2012: Language analyses examine power structure and political slant; Wikipedia compared to commercial databases

Volume 1 (2011)

WRN 1(6) – December 2011: Psychiatrists: Wikipedia better than Britannica; spell-checking Wikipedia; Wikipedians smart but fun; structured biological data
WRN 1(5) – November 2011: Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation
WRN 1(4) – October 2011: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified
WRN 1(3) – September 2011: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews
WRN 1(2) – August 2011: Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety
WRN 1(1) – July 2011 (inaugural edition): Talk page interactions; Wikipedia at the Open Knowledge Conference; Summer of Research; brief notes
Recent research – Signpost, 6 June 2011
Recent research – Signpost, 11 April 2011