In the latest issue of our monthly newsletter:
* Women in blue? Wikipedia's gender gap reverses in some areas
And other new research publications
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"AI Use among [Swiss] Wikipedians in Science-Related Information & Communication" upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…
* Wikipedians much more cautious about using AI than scientists or journalists
* Only 22.6% find AI useful for their Wikipedia contributions
* Polarized on AI disclosure
"WikiStar: A System for Shedding Light on the Hidden History of Scientific Wikipedia Articles", detecting edit types such as "technical term added" using an LLM classifier arxiv.org/html/2607.1244…
(with human-annotated benchmark dataset)
"Scalable Methods for Storing and Retrieving Wikipedia Revision Histories for Large-Scale Analysis" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…
New "WikECD" Python library can compress them by as much as 94% github.com/descentis/WikE…