Publications

The Wikimedia Research team and our collaborators publish peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and white papers in archival scholarly research conferences and journals.

2025

Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection
Mykola Trokhymovych, Lydia Pintscher, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Diego Saez-Trumper
Proceedings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '25 Industry)

2024

Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia
Tomás Feith, Akhil Arora, Martin Gerlach, Debjit Paul, and Robert West
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '24)
Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership
Dale Zhou, Shubhankar P. Patankar, David M. Lydon-Staley, Perry Zurn, Martin Gerlach, and Dani S. Bassett
Science Advances. 10, eadn3268
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn3268
Wikimedia data for AI: A review of Wikimedia datasets for NLP tasks and AI-assisted editing
Isaac Johnson, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, and Miriam Redi
Proceedings of Advancing Natural Language Processing for Wikipedia Workshop (EMNLP '24)
An Open Multilingual System for Scoring Readability of Wikipedia
Mykola Trokhymovych, Indira Sen, and Martin Gerlach
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '24)
Language-Agnostic Modeling of Wikipedia Articles for Content Quality Assessment across Languages
Paramita Das, Isaac Johnson, Diego Saez-Trumper, and Pablo Aragón
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '24)
Leveraging Recommender Systems to Reduce Content Gaps on Peer Production Platforms
Mo Houtti, Isaac Johnson, Morten Warncke-Wang, and Loren Terveen
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '24)
Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia
Akhil Arora, Robert West, and Martin Gerlach
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '24)
Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, and Robert West
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '24)

2023

A Comparative Study of Reference Reliability in Multiple Language Editions of Wikipedia
Aitolkyn Baigutanova, Diego Saez-Trumper, Miriam Redi, Meeyoung Cha, and Pablo Aragón
In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '23)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3615254
Increasing Participation in Peer Production Communities with the Newcomer Homepage
Morten Warncke-Wang, Rita Ho, Marshall Miller, and Isaac Johnson
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. (CSCW '23).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3610071
Publishing Wikipedia usage data with strong privacy guarantees
Temilola Adeleye, Skye Berghel, Damien Desfontaines, Michael Hay, Isaac Johnson, Cléo Lemoisson, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Tom Magerlein, Gabriele Modena, David Pujol, Daniel Simmons-Marengo, and Hal Triedman
Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) 2023
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.16298
Fair multilingual vandalism detection system for Wikipedia
Mykola Trokhymovych, Muniza Aslam, Ai-Jou Chou, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Diego Saez-Trumper
In Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '23)
Longitudinal Assessment of Reference Quality on Wikipedia
Aitolkyn Baigutanova, Jaehyeon Myung, Diego Saez-Trumper, Ai-Jou Chou, Miriam Redi, Changwook Jung, and Meeyoung Cha
In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2023 (WWW '23)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3543507.3583218
Overview of the TREC 2022 Fair Ranking Track
Michael D. Ekstrand, Graham McDonald, Amifa Raj, and Isaac Johnson
The Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2022) Proceedings
A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Akhil Arora, and Robert West
ACM Transactions on the Web
https://doi.org/10.1145/3580318

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2016

WikiCite 2016 Report
Dario Taraborelli, Jonathan Dugan, Lydia Pintscher, Daniel Mietchen, and Cameron Neylon
figshare
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4042530
Improving Website Hyperlink Structure Using Server Logs
Ashwin Paranjape, Robert West, Leila Zia, and Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '16)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2835776.2835832
Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide
Isaac L. Johnson, Yilun Lin, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Andrew Hall, Aaron Halfaker, Johannes Schöning, and Brent Hecht
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858123
Who Did What: Editor Role Identification in Wikipedia.
Diyi Yang, Aaron Halfaker, Robert E. Kraut, and Eduard Hovy
Proceedings of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '16)
Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation
Ellery Wulczyn, Robert West, Leila Zia, and Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '16)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2872427.2883077
LeadWise: Using Online Bots to Recruit and Guide Expert Volunteers
Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Saiph Savage, and Dario Taraborelli
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion (CSCW '16 Companion)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2869106
Breaking into new Data-Spaces: Infrastructure for Open Community Science. In
Aaron Halfaker, Jonathan Morgan, Yuvaraj Pandian, Elizabeth Thiry, William Rand, Kristen Schuster, A.J. Million, Sean Goggins, and David Laniado
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion (CSCW '16 Companion)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2855512

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2012

Etiquette in Wikipedia: Weaning new editors into productive ones
Ryan Faulkner, Steven Walling, and Maryana Pinchuk
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '12)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2462932.2462939
Bots and cyborgs: Wikipedia's immune system
Aaron Halfaker and John Riedl
Computer
https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2012.82
What aren't we measuring?: Methods for quantifying wiki-work. In
Aaron Halfaker, Brian Keegan, Andrea Forte, R. Stuart Geiger, Dario Taraborelli, Maryana Pinchuk, and Mikhil Masli
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '12)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2462932.2462983
Defense Mechanism or Socialization Tactic? Improving Wikipedia's Notifications to Rejected Contributors
R. Stuart Geiger, Aaron Halfaker, Maryana Pinchuk, and Steven Walling
Proceedings of the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM '12)
Negotiating Cultural Values in Social Media: A Case Study from Wikipedia
Jonathan T. Morgan, Robert M. Mason, and Karine Nahon
Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS '12)
https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.443