Research:People
This is a list of people who identify as part of the Wikimedia Research Community. Please feel free to add yourself.
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| Name | Lastname | Username | Affiliation with country/institution | Research expertise and interests | Disciplinary area | Start date | ORCID | Last Updated |
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| Jérôme | Hergueux | SalimJah | French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), assistant research professor | Behavioral economics, Cooperation, Deliberation, Decision making, Digitization | Social sciences | ORCID | ||
| Julià | Minguillón Alfonso | Julià Minguillón | Spain, Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) | PhD in Machine Learning. Interested in analyzing the gender gap in Wikipedia. | Data Science | ORCID | ||
| Mayo | Fuster Morell | Lilaroja | Spain, Barcelona, Open University of Catalonia, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Research Director at Dimmons (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute ) | Phd in Social and Political Science at European University Institute (Florence, Italy) on the Governance of digital commons with Wikipedia as a case study. Her research was supervised by Donatella della Porta, Bruce Bimber and sponsored by Howard Rheingold. She is collaborating on a research project with the Berkman center and Science Po on the Dynamics of Online Interactions and Behavior. Wikipedians are one of the target of online users (but not the only one) of the project. She is an occasional wikipedian and wikimedian (IT and CAT). | Social sciences | ORCID | ||
| Patrick | Gildersleve | UK, University of Exeter. Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and Artificial Intelligence | I research news and the digital commons. PhD from Oxford Internet Institute studying attention to current events using Wikipedia. I'm interested in the social, editorial, and algorithmic processes that shape collective attention and drive interest towards news and current events. | Computer sciences, Social sciences | ORCID | |||
| John | Qi Dong | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong - PhD student in Information Systems | research on Wikipedia feedback systems | Computer sciences | ||||
| Johanna | Niesyto | jojoon | Germany, Universiy of Siegen, - PhD candidate in Political Science - supervised by Prof. Dr. Sigrid Baringhorst | Research about Wikipedia as a transnational, political space | Social sciences | |||
| Gilad | Ravid | Israel - Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Lecturer in Industrial Engineering and Management department | studying conversations dominance, wikibooks for higher education and Information multiplicity between television and wikipedia | Social sciences | ||||
| Rebecca | Mancy | UK - University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Manu Kapur National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technical University (Singapore) | investigating pedagogical aspects of Wikipedia from an evolutionary, complexity science perspective. For example, one of their research questions relates to whether the Wikipedia model leads to pedagogically strong content. They are currently writing a review article of current research surrounding these issues. | Social sciences | ||||
| Norhisham Mohamad | Nordin | Norhisham | Australia - University of Western Australia(UWA) in Perth. Ph.D. student | Under the supervision of Jane Kloba, who wrote a book on wiki, entitled "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration[1]". Research topic on Wiki as a collaborative tools in school. Previous research on CSCL known as CCEL(Computer-based Collaborative and Exploratory Learning) won a medal in Geneva Innovation Expo 2006.'Wikilaborate' and share ideas at researcher's site. | Social sciences | |||
| Oded | Nov | USA, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Assistant Professor | motivational and structural drivers of contribution to online information repositories. A study on the motivations of Wikipedia contributors: [2] and a comparison of Wikipedians and open source software contributors | |||||
| Said Kassem | Hamideh | Gretzinger | USA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MA Thesis in the department of Journalism and Mass Communication | examining antagonistic knowledge production of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Wikipedia. | Social sciences | |||
| Jochen | Leidner | carrying out research on Wikipedia mining for automatic Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Extraction (IE) and Question Answering (QA). | ||||||
| Ingo | Frost | Germany, university of Osnabrueck, Diploma-theses in systems-science[3] | Civil particitpation in virtual communities? A systematic analysis of the German Wikipedia-project. His work - in German language - was publishd at the beginning of 2006 as first scientific monography about wikipedia (ISBN 978-3-8316-0609-2). | |||||
| Jakob | Voss | Nichtich | Germany, Berlin, Computer science | writing masters thesis on Wikimetrics - see his Research Blog | ||||
| Julien | Levrel | Jmskobalt | France, sociology | started a PhD on cooperation and collaboration using wiki. | ||||
| Nikolaos S. | Karastathis | Computer science | doing university dissertation research on wikis and content management systems. Mainly on the software and theoretical aspects of it, but also pays some attention to sociological implications. | |||||
| Chitu | Okoli | Canada, Montréal, Concordia University, Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems | see July 2004 and March 2005 analyzing the featured article nomination process for a research project" https://chitu.okoli.org/ | ORCID | ||||
| Cormac | Lawler | Cormaggio | UK, | wrote MEd dissertation on Wikipedia as a learning community (also Wikimania paper), currently working on PhD proposal based on Wikiversity, but also interested in Wikimedia_UK. | ||||
| Martin | Erpicum | France - Sociologist | I wrote a Master Thesis in Sociology of fr.wikipedia.org. | Social sciences | ||||
| Andrea | Forte | Andicat | USA - Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA, USA) - Assistant Professor | Studying participatory media and knowledge production. Formerly: Ph.D. student in human-centered computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA). | Social sciences | |||
| Michael | Reschke | Michael Reschke | Germany - Ph.D student | Ph.D. student (Germany), Wikipedia at schools, online learning communities | Social sciences | |||
| Joseph | Reagle | Reagle | Author of Good Faith Collaboration. | |||||
| Andreas | Brändle | Switzerland - Zurich - communication science | writing thesis on quality in the German Wikipedia. | Social sciences | ||||
| Joachim | Schroer | Germany - University of Wuerzburg - Department of Work and Organizational Psychology | international survey about the motivation of participants in Wikipedia now online at: http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/wikipedia.php?lang=en (German survey ran from 18-3-2005 till 8-4-2005) | Social sciences | ||||
| Guido | Hertel | |||||||
| Petter | Karlström | PhD student | Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction, studying online learning communities. Hopefully not too similar to Andrea Forte's work! | |||||
| Kate | Raynes-Goldie | examining the Green Party of Canada's use of a wiki to create their last platform. See the full text for the Online Deliberation 2005 Conference. | ||||||
| David | Fono | |||||||
| Kevin | Carillo | Canada, Montreal, MSc. student in admistration | doing master's thesis on Wikipedia) see [4] | |||||
| Boud | Roukema | Boud (cosmologist in Poland) | proposed project for wikimania meeting - at the moment see my home page w:User:Boud - i'm particularly interested in whether positive and negative feedback processes in the wikisphere (especially wikimedia wikis) tend to override the fundamental bias (non-neutrality) induced by favouring people with internet access and by favouring reputable primary sources. i'd be happy to do cooperate on this, but my (idealistic) hope is that the article will be GFDL and the software will be user-friendly and GPL so that others can easily build on the results. | |||||
| Will | Lakeman | UK - Sussex, Media and Cultural Studies, MA student | writing on the Wikipedia and the democratisation of human knowledge, looking both at the structure of the Wikipedia and the interaction of its community of editors. His research page can be found here. All comments are welcome on Will's Wikipedia user page | |||||
| Marco | Kalz | Germany, Hagen, Educational Technology Unit, PhD-Student | working about "Structuration principles in Wikipedia". Besides, I am interested in educational use of wikis and the WP. | |||||
| Sisay Fissaha | Adafre | The Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, PhD student in information access | working on automated question answering against Wikipedia. Answering Questions against Wikipedia: Access and Authoring Support provides a short description of the project. | |||||
| Antti | Kapanen | Finland, North Karelia Polytechnic | has submitted his thesis "Development of the WikiDossier Software" to the North Karelia Polytechnic. Advisor: D. Weber-Wulff | |||||
| Sander | Spek | The Netherlands, Universiteit Maastricht, Dept. of Computer Science | doing a PhD on knowledge sharing which includes Wikipedia on topics such as trust between users. An MSc student supervised by Sander, Frank Palmen, is working on a recommender system for Wikipedia pages to add to a user's watchlist. | |||||
| Judith | Simon | Austria, University. of Vienna, PhD-Student in Philosophy of Science
Previously Master in Psychology at FU Berlin |
working on changing conceptions of knowledge and their relation to technology. | |||||
| Grassineau | Benjamin | France | Rationalité économique et gratuité sur Internet : le cas du projet Wikipédia 2010 | Social sciences | ||||
| Julien | Levrel | recyclage | (Phd) - working in sociology of use of computer. | |||||
| Gabriela | Avram | Coniecto | Ireland, Univerity of Limerick, Interaction Design Center, Postdoc researcher | doing research on Social Software, online learning communities and communities of practice in the context of Global Software Development. | ||||
| Andrew | Lih | Fuzheado | University of Hong Kong, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, assistant professor | looking into Wikipedia as a case study in participatory journalism. Published one of the earliest metrics-based evaluations of Wikipedia articles in April 2004. See web site. | ||||
| Markus | Glaser | Mglaser | PhD student | writing a PhD thesis on collaborative opinion forming and deliberation with wikis. | ||||
| Bryan | Pfaffenberger | USA, University of Virginia, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, | writing a paper on the Wikipedia community's construction of two dimensions of online identity: anonymity and privacy. | |||||
| Felipe | Ortega | GlimmerPhoenix | Spain, Madrid, URJC University, Researcher & Project Manager.
Also Associate Professor at Alfonso X El Sabio University |
PhD. in Computer Science. His PhD. thesis "Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis" is the first research work providing an empirical, side-by-side comparison of the top-ten language editions of Wikipedia, from multiple perspectives (overall evolution, inequality of contributions, survivability of Wikipedia editors, etc). He is also the leading developer of WikiXRay, a Python software tool automating the quantitative analysis of Wikipedia database dumps, including 2D, 3D graphics and statistics. See LibreSoft Research Group. | ||||
| Manfred | Faden | Germany, Humboldt University Berlin | Dipl. Soz-Ök. Library of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, studying Library and Information Science at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (Postgraduate Correspondence Degree Course). Is writing a masters thesis on „Der Einsatz eines Wikis als zentrales Kommunikationsinstrument für die Thesauruspflege an verteilten Bibliotheksstandorten“ (The application of a Wiki as central instrument of communication for the Thesaurus maintenance at connected libraries in separate locations). | |||||
| Christine | Klaßen | Germany, FU Berlin, | Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften, writing a master's thesis about the Wikipedia in the context of the Enlightenment (the political dimension) | |||||
| M C | Morgan | USA, Bemidji State University, professor of English | Research and teaching in collective writing using wikis and a rhetoric of wiki, investigating effective composing strategies, page patterns, linking, refactoring. | |||||
| Josef | Kolbitsch | Austria, Graz University Technology, PhD student in Computer science | research focuses on electronic encyclopaedias and collaboration in digital libraries. | Computer science | ||||
| Derek | Hansen | USA, University of Maryland's iSchool, assistant professor | studied the use of wikis by online technical and medical support communities, as well as their use as a platform for collaborative sensemaking. | |||||
| Doug | Morris | Reswik | USA, Loyola University of Chicago's Sociology Department, PhD student | conducting dissertation research on collaborative editing of featured articles in the English Wikipedia. | ||||
| nn | nn | Parc wiki researcher | researcher studying conflict occurance and resolution on Wikipedia. Surveyed select enwiki users (see en:User talk:Parc wiki researcher). | |||||
| Elijah | Meeks | Elijahmeeks | USA, University of California, Merced in the World Cultures and History program, PhD student | studying the use of new media in the presentation and understanding of knowledge in the humanities. | ||||
| Claudia | Müller | leading the open-source project SONIVIS, which enables to analyze and visualize collaboration and topics in Wiki-based information spaces. The network metaphor is applied to explore the virtual space and various metrics and statistics help to quantify the Wiki evolution. | ||||||
| Sylvain | Firer-Blaess | Karibou | UK, University of Sussex, postgraduate student | writing on the power structure, the economy and the ethical outcomes of the Wikipedia. A set of articles in french have been published at homo-numericus.net. His MA thesis concerning wikipedia in english language is available at [5] | Social sciences | |||
| Rut | Jesus | Vulpeto | PhD student at the Center for Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at Copenhagen University. Studying 'Cooperation of Emergent Cognition in Socio-Technological Networks, the case of Wikipedia'. | |||||
| Kotaro | Nakayama | PhD at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in Osaka-Univ.. His current research topic is Wikipedia mining and he developed a huge scale thesaurus named Wikipedia Thesaurus by Wikipedia mining. See wikipedia-lab.org. | ||||||
| Chris | Bizer | Germany, Freie Universität Berlin | works within the DBpedia project on extracting structured information such as infobox data and multi-lingual abstracts from Wikipedia. The data is published on the Web as RDF and is interlinked with other datasets. | |||||
| Enric | Senabre Hidalgo | esenabre | Spain, Open University of Catalonia, PhD candidate | His current research topic is about the similarities between Wikipedia growth and the ways of collaborating and organizing in open source development projects. | ||||
| Christophe | Prieur | France, Paris, laboratories Liafa (University Paris Diderot) and Sense (Orange Labs) | studies wikipedia as a social network, from both points of view of social and computer sciences. | |||||
| Sören | Auer | works with his Agile Knowledge Engineering & Semantic Web (AKSW) group in particular on the DBpedia project with the ultimate goal of transforming Wikipedia from a content base into a knowledge base. | ||||||
| Anne | Goldenberg | France, Nice, Unice Sophia Antipolis, Sociology
Canada, Québec, Montreal, UQAM, PHD candidate and |
Her thesis deals with Common Sens Negociation Within Public Wikis. | Social sciences | ||||
| Liam | Wyatt | Witty lama | Australia, UNSW | writing a History thesis at UNSW, Australia, on the topic of Wikipedia's academic lineage. How historiographical debates in the academy are relevant to those taking place on-wiki and vice versa. | ||||
| Daniel | Kinzler | Duesentrieb | wrote his diploma thesis on WikiWord, a system for building a multilingual thesaurus and dictionary from Wikipedia. Daniel is also a MediaWiki developer and works for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.. | |||||
| Luca | de Alfaro | USA, UC Santa Cruz, associate professor | He is developing WikiTrust, a reputation system for wiki authors, and a trust system for wiki text. Authors gain reputation when their contributions prove long-lived, and text trust is an indication of the extent with which it has been revised. The code, available under BSD license, also contains utilities such as fast block text comparison, and more. | |||||
| Piotr | Konieczny | Piotrus | USA, University of Pittsburgh
Poland |
a Polish PhD candidate in sociology at University of Pittsburgh, USA. In addition to being an active Wikipedian, he is looking at various social aspects of Wikipedia (ex. is it a social movement? how is power structured on it? are there nationalisms on Wikipedia? etc.), as well as developing methods on teaching with Wikipedia (see Wikipedia - School and University Projects). | ||||
| R. Stuart | Geiger | Staeiou | USA, Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology project | a graduate student at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology project. He is interested in the internal culture of Wikipedia, as well as Wikipedia's larger cultural significance, especially the relationship between Wikipedia and academia. His thesis is an ethnographic study of Wikipedia that draws on several distinct traditions, including the sociology of scientific knowledge, ethnomethodology, Actor-Network Theory, and Foucauldian concepts of power and knowledge. http://stuartgeiger.com/ | ||||
| Christoph | Trattner | PhD student in Computer Science at Graz University Technology, Austria. His research focuses on tagging and navigational principles in Wikis and WCM systems. | ||||||
| Jonathan | WereSpielChequers | an admin and bureaucrat on the English Wikipedia and is conducting some research on the admin community and in particular the processes of recruitment and retention of admins. | 2011 | 2024 | ||||
| Paolo | Massa | Phauly | Italy, Bruno Kessler Foundation, SoNet group | working on the social side of Wikipedia. See for example the paper "Social networks of Wikipedia". He often blogs about Wikipedia. | ||||
| Finn Årup | Nielsen | fnielsen | Denmark, Technical University of Denmark, Associate Professor | He writes on the Danish and English Wikipedias as well as Wikidata and has performed a few studies on Wikipedia and Wikidata. He sometimes writes about Wikipedia and Wikidata on his blog. | Data science | ORCID | 2024 | |
| Oliver | Ferschke | Oliver.ferschke | Germany, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing | His research focuses on the examination of collaboratively created texts and all processes that are involved - i.e. the text production, the text reception, and the collaboration. The main subject of investigation is Wikipedia, esp. its revision history and article discussion pages. Furthermore, Oliver Ferschke is a co-maintainer of the open source Java Wikipedia Library (JWPL) | ||||
| Régis | Barondeauis | Canada, Québec, Montreal, UQAM, PhD candidate in Administration | The main subject of investigation are wikis in organisations. | Social sciences | ||||
| Ilektra | Pavlaki | Elektrodio | The Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, Master student in New Med | She is currently writing her thesis on the campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia. | ||||
| Dario | Taraborelli | DarTar | Senior Research Analyst with the Wikimedia Foundation's strategy team. He is responsible for product development research at WMF and coordinates the Foundation's academic outreach effort via the Wikimedia Research Committee. Prior to joining WMF he was a postdoctoral fellow in social computing at University College London and the University of Surrey, UK. He holds a PhD in cognitive science from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris. His interests span large-scale open collaboration, online reputation and credibility, collaborative annotation and new metrics for scholarly communication. Further information and contact details are available on his Wikipedia user page and staff page. | |||||
| Katherine | Thornton | USA, University of Washington, PhD student at the Information School | Her research concerns the category system in Wikipedia. | |||||
| Gerard | de Melo | Germany, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, researcher | works on extracting multilingual lexical information about words in different languages as well as ontological information from Wikipedia and Wiktionary. | |||||
| Manuel | Palomo-Duarte | Spain, University of Cadiz, lecturer | PhD. in Computer Science, being Director to its Libre Software and Open Knowledge Office. His areas of interest are community based-project analysis, e-learning and free software. Wiki-projects include StatMediaWiki, EvalMediaWiki, WikEval and WikiTeam | |||||
| Juan Manuel | Dodero | Spain, University of Cadiz, Associate Professor | PhD. His areas of interest are open science, web engineering and technology-enhanced learning. He is interested in the use of wikis for education and evaluation. Main researcher of the ASCETA R&D project and collaborator with the UCA Libre Software and Open Knowledge Office in StatMediaWiki and EvalMediaWiki projects. Other wiki-related projects include WebHFlow. | |||||
| Ziko | van Dijk | Ziko | historian, is interested in the history of Wikipedia language versions. | |||||
| Jonas | Xavier | All is love love | Brazil, Pernambuco Institute of Technology | Bsc. in systems analysis at Pernambuco Institute of Technology (Brazil) - researching on social trends, with interests in statistical prediction and signal processing. | ||||
| Dariusz | Jemielniak | Ph.D., full professor of management, experience in the roles of an admin, bureaucrat, checkuser, steward, the WMF Board member, His areas of interest are power, structure, identity and trust enactment on Wikipedia. Author of the first ethnography of Wikipedia, "Common Knowledge?" (Stanford University Press). jemielniak.org | Social sciences | |||||
| Emilio J. | Rodríguez-Posada | emijrp | Poland, | is a pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain). He is a veteran Wikipedia editor (registered in 2005). He created AVBOT (an anti-vandalism bot which has reverted more than 250,000 vandalism edits in Spanish Wikipedia), StatMediaWiki (a tool for statistical analysis of MediaWiki wikis), WikiTeam (a group of people to preserve wikis), WikiPapers (a wiki about wiki literature, datasets and tools) and WikiEvidens (a tool for statistical analysis and visualization of wikis). He is open to collaborate with wiki researchers from all over the world. | ||||
| Hrafn H. | Malmquist | Iceland, | a MLIS-student at the University of Iceland. I have been an active contributor and bureaucrat at the Icelandic Wikipedia for over six years. Currently I am writing a final thesis on the Icelandic Wikipedia scheduled to be finished by December 31, 2013. I am therefore very interested in research on small language communities Wikipedias. | |||||
| Marc | Miquel | Marcmiquel | Spain, Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | phD researcher from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His research focuses on researching the User Engagement in Wikipedia regarding aspects like multillinguism and content diversity. | ||||
| Erinç | Salor | PhD in humanities. Presented his dissertation in October 2012 focusing on the way Wikipedia relates to the Western European encyclopedic tradition, analyzing the novelties Wikipedia introduced and the numerous continuities it adheres to. | ||||||
| Pierre-Carl | Langlais | Alexander Doria | PhD candidate in communication and media studies (Paris-Sorbonne) and French Wikipedia Administrator. I'm currently working on a paper on Wikipedia as a political entity (and, more specifically, on the recent blackouts from the Italian and English Wikipedia). | |||||
| Iolanda | Pensa | iopensa | Switzerland, SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Istitute of design, senior researcher and head of research area "Culture and territories" | Research on systems of knowledge production and distribution in Africa, contemporary African art, and evaluating the impact of cultural institutions. I worked on Wikipedia Primary School, the Alps on Wikipedia, Open Science for arts, design and music and some visualisation of Wikipedia articles and visualisations of heritage on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. Previously scientific director of WikiAfrica (increasing the quantity and quality of African content on Wikipedia) and Share Your Knowledge (Creative Commons and Wikipedia for cultural institutions) for lettera27 Foundation (2007-2012). https://iopensa.it/ | Humanies and social sciences | 2006 | ORCID | 2024 |
| Ryan | McGrady | Rhododendrites | USA, University of Massachusetts Amherst Senior Researcher, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure Researcher, Media Cloud |
Research focused on Wikipedia as a PhD student, but currently more focused on social media and public policy. Looking for opportunities to get back into the Wiki end of things. | ||||
| Maik | Anderka | Germany, University of Paderborn, postdoctoral researcher | His doctoral thesis "Analyzing and Predicting Quality Flaws in User-generated Content: The Case of Wikipedia" deals with the analysis and the automated prediction of quality flaws in the English Wikipedia based on cleanup tags. http://maik.anderka.com/ | |||||
| Mohammed Sadat | Abdulai | Masssly | Ghana, Regent University College of Science and Technology, M.Sc. Statistics candidate | Thesis is set about to Academic perceptions of Wikipedia and its impact on online research: A case study of Ghana (West Africa). The significance of the study is that it will attempt to present an estimate of the effect of Wikipedia on a geography that donates some of the smallest number of edits | ||||
| Lionel | Scheepmans | Lionel Scheepmans | Belgium, UCLouvain | socio-anthropologist active on the French Wikiversity where you can found (in French) all information about me and my works. My first big interest about Wikipedia was born during an ethnographic research about the French community of wikipédia in 2011. My actual interests are all kind of "off line" Wikipedia organisations and activities. | ||||
| Stefan | Kasberger | Stefankasberger | ongoing data scientist and studies territoriality in wikipedia as part of Fabian Flöcks WikiWho project. | |||||
| Rich | Farmbrough | Rich Farmbrough | mathematician, software engineer, educationalist. Have worked on various statistical, natural language and geographical investigations. Interests, Gendergap (editor, content), Community, editor retention and recruitment, authorship, vandalism, translation. | |||||
| Annapoornima | Koppad | Annakoppad | electrical engineer, patent analyst, python programmer, teacher, pyladies bangalore founder, photographer, editor, author, researcher, open source enthusiast, hardware enthusiast, open knolwedge promoter, translator, painter, badminton player, kannada language enthusiast. | |||||
| Jesús | Tramullas | Spain, University of Zaragoza, Associated Professor of Library & Information Science | PhD in Humanities. His research areas are information behavior, information literacy, Wikipedia in education, GLAM... | ORCID | ||||
| Jackie | Koerner | Jackiekoerner | PhD in Higher Education. Qualitative researcher and current WikiEdu visiting scholar. Research interests include academic ethics, bias, disability, knowledge construction, and perceptions of academics and scholars regarding Wikipedia. | |||||
| Eva | Zangerle | Austria, University of Innsbruck, PostDoc researcher | particularly interested in assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles, the usage of Wikipedia articles in social media and recommender systems in the field of structuring content (e.g., the Wikidata recommender). https://evazangerle.at/ | |||||
| David Pierre | Leibovitz | Dpleibovitz | Canada, Ottowa, Cognitive Science at Carleton University | PhD in Cognitive Science at Carleton University - developing a hierarchy of coherentizing wikis for disciplining and progressing science | ||||
| nn | nn | Doctor 17 | Australia, University of Sydney | Bunty Avieson, a researcher at University of Sydney in the department of Media and Communications, with an interest in journalism, Bhutan and Wikipedia. | ||||
| Benjamin Mako | Hill | Benjamin Mako Hill | USA, University of Washington, researcher and professor | I study peer production with a particular interest in free software and wikis. | ||||
| Jean-Olivier | Gransard-Desmond | Jogd75 | France, association ArkéoTopia, une autre voie pour l'archéologie | French icono-archaeologist at ArkeoTopia. He is in charge of the association's research programs. He is particularly involved in participative science projects, which has led to research programs such as WikiTopia Archives which uses the Wikimedia galaxy projects and presentations at colloquium advocating the usage of the Wikimedia galaxy projects (« Science3 4.0. Redynamiser la recherche fondamentale ». Dans: Salvador, X.-L. et Patterson, J. (éd.), Paroles et images sur le commencement. Le discours des peintures de la chapelle de Merléac, Paradigme éditions, 2019, p. 169‑85). | ||||
| Nicole | Schwitter | ASociologist | UK, University of Warwick, honorary research fellow in Sociology; Germany, University of Mannheim, postdoctoral researcher | My PhD project focused on the online community Wikipedia. I was interested in the effects offline gatherings between Wikipedians have on their online behaviour, in particular in regard to their contribution, norm-enforcing and voting behaviour in the context of their social network. | Social sciences | 2021 | ORCID | |
| Aaron | Shaw | Aaronshaw | USA, Northwestern University, Professor, researcher | I study peer production organizations and online participation. Some contexts include free software and wikis. | ||||
| Camillo Carlo | Pellizzari di San Girolamo | Epìdosis | Italy, Scuola Normale Superiore, PhD student | I study ancient Greek literature and also Wikidata (particularly the relationship between Wikidata and authority files). | Classics; library science | 2021 | 0000-0003-2699-1693 | 2024 |
| Markus | Krötzsch | Markus Krötzsch | TU Dresden, Germany, professor | Wikidata, knowledge graph processing and management, knowledge representation, Semantic MediaWiki | Computer science | 2005 | 0000-0002-9172-2601 | 2024 |
| Daniel | Mietchen | Daniel Mietchen | FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany | Wikidata, knowledge graphs, data integration, open knowledge workflows, collaborative curation | Biophysics | 2010 | 0000-0001-9488-1870 | 2024 |
| Karima | Rafes | Karima Rafes | Eccenca, Germany BorderCloud, France |
Interoperability, Wikidata, knowledge graphs, data integration, Semantic Web Developer of several extensions for Mediawiki and contributor of the proposal "Enabling open science: Wikidata for research (Wiki4R)" |
Computer science, Cybersecurity | [6] | 2024 | |
| Brett | Buttliere | NabuKudurru | Poland, USA | I am an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw. I am a psychologist working on Science communication and digital infrastructure for science. | Psychology; Philosophy of Science; Science Communication | [7] | 2024 | |
| Matthew | Vetter | Matthewvetter | Pennsylvania, USA; Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania | Wikipedia-based education; Wikipedia/media culture and policy; writing studies; writing education; Wikipedia & AI | Social sciences | 0000-0002-4590-5677 | 2024 | |
| Jana | Gallus | Nennes | UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) | Motivation, incentives (e.g., "Fostering Public Good Contributions with Symbolic Awards: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia" [8]), organizations, inclusion (e.g., "Gender, power and emotions in the collaborative production of knowledge: A large-scale analysis of Wikipedia editor conversations" [9]) | Social sciences | 2011 | ||
| Fernando | Archuby | Fernando Archuby | UNLP (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Argentina | Specialist in paleontology and conservation paleobiology and University professor. Working on projects that seek to assess history and current situation of scientific areas by updating Wikidata and visualizing with Scholia. More information: Equipo de Wikimedistas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. | Natural and social sciences | 2024 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-3364 | |
| Leila | Zia | LZia_(WMF) | Wikimedia Foundation (Research) and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society | See my work and interests. | Computational social science | 2014 | 2024 | |
| Kaylea | Champion | Kaylea Champion | Community Data Science Collective (University of Washington) | Understanding how people create, sustain, and quiesce public goods. | Social and information sciences | 2017 | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6196-942X | 2024 |
| Joseph | Schafer | Joseph Schafer | Human Centered Design & Engineering, Center for an Informed Public (University of Washington) | Within Wikipedia, studying how the Wikipedia community uses and operationalizes the terms misinformation and disinformation. | Social and information sciences | 2022 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-2074 | 2024 |
| Mariam | Olugbodi | Mariam Olugbodi | Department of English and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts (Kwara State University, Malete) Nigeria | Applied Linguistics & Sociophonetics. | Phonetic Variations in Nigerian Newscasters' Renditions | 2022 | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5027-6644 | 2024Margob28 (talk) 20:07, 20 September 2024 (UTC) |
| KehDon | UNLP (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Argentina | Specialist in bioarchaeology. Working on projects that seek to assess history and current situation of scientific areas by updating Wikidata and visualizing with Scholia. More information: Equipo de Wikimedistas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. | Natural and social sciences | 2024 | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6705-698X | |||
| Denise | Smith | Mcbrarian | Canada | Wikipedia as a public health information resource | Library & information science | 2018 | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8226-2263 | 2024 Mcbrarian (talk)
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| Jeanna | Matthews | Jeanna Matthews | Clarkson University, USA | Implications of Using Inorganic Content, (Wikimedia Research Showcase), July 2024. Other Publications and Talks | Computer Science | 2021 | ORCID | 2024 |
| David | Ramírez-Ordóñez | Hiperterminal | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Fundación Conector | Wikipedia & gender, GLAM, open data | Library & Information Sciecne | 2019 | 0000-0003-4576-5851 | |
| Laura | Fernández | Lauferagui | Universitat de Barcelona | Wikipedia & gender, Wikipedia Main Page, Gender and intersectional gaps
I am part of the CoverWomen Research Project |
Communication & Media; Gender & LGBTIQ+ Studies; Critical animal studies | 2023 | ORCID | September 2024 |
| Nicolas | Jullien | Jullienn | IMT Atlantique | Wikipedia organization, contributors' motivation and carier, surveys, algorithmic governance | Management | 2010 | ORCID | September 2024 |
| Carla | Toro | Soylacarli | Chile | Social Media, impact of Wikimedia, Wikidata | Data Science and social sciences | 2021 | ORCID | |
| Laurent | Mell | Bleohir | IMT Atlantique | Wikipedia uses, reading practices, relationship between digital use and cultural literacy | Social sciences | 2023 | ORCID | September 2024 |
| Susanna | Mkrtchyan | WikiTatik | Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems, Senior researcher | Education through Wikipedia, Enhancing the Trustworthiness, and Comprehensiveness of Wikipedia Content | Computer sciences | 2010 | ORCID | September 2024 |
| n.a. | n.a. | Yug | Université de Toulouse ; Lingua Libre ; Lingua Libre/SignIt; en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab | Former PhD candidate in Chinese teaching, vocabulary acquisition and e-learning. Current referent for Lingua Libre, Wikimedia's online tool to audio document vocabularies of the world, with 260 languages and 1.3M recordings. Recent: sign languages and Occitan Whistle dictionaries. | Social sciences | ORCID | 2024 | |
| Sabine | von Mering | S.v.Mering | Germany, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin | Botany, systematics, taxonomy, Wikidata, Knowledge graphs, natural history collections, history of science, GLAM, Open Science | Biology | ORCID | October 2024 | |
| Tomás | Saorín | Tsaorin | Spain, University of Murcia, Associated Professor of Library & Information Science | PhD in Humanities. His research areas are metadata, content management systems, Wikidata, Knowledge Organization, Wikipedia, GLAM... | Library and Information Science | ORCID | October 2024 |