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Research news on @Wikipedia @Wikidata @Wikimedia, hot off the press. Volunteer-curated by @tilmanbayer & @mad_astronaut. Read our newsletter for full coverage
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    Aug 27
    In the latest issue of our monthly newsletter: * Women in blue? Wikipedia's gender gap reverses in some areas And other new research publications meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…
    Percentage of female versus male faculty with Wikipedia biographies from 2014 to 2024 (Figure 4 from Alvarez-Ponce and Iyengar, Monitoring the gender gap in the coverage of biology professors on Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0)
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    Aug 28
    Impact of Google AI Overviews on Wikipedia: "default AIO availability reduced English [Wikipedia] search traffic by 5.45% and 4.82%, respectively" in mid 2024 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… (NB: revises/retracts 15% estimate for *overall* traffic from the paper's earlier versions)
    excerpt from "3.1 Model-Free Analysis" in Khosravi and Yoganarasimhan 2026, "Impact of AI Search Summaries on Website Traffic: Evidence from Google AI Overviews and Wikipedia"
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    Aug 22
    Contrary to expectations, "Female professors in STEM fields had a higher predicted probability of having a Wikipedia biography than their male colleagues. Outside STEM, no gender effects were observed." (in Germany, on German Wikipedia) nature.com/articles/s4159…
    Predicted probabilities differentiated by university type, gender, and discipline [From: Spagert et al, Who gets a Wikipedia biography..., CC BY 4.0]
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    Aug 15
    "Wikipediautism: A Multilingual Analysis of Autism-Related Wikipedia Articles in Six Languages" doi.org/10.1007/s10803… E.g. "smaller language communities (Georgian, Norwegian and Italian) showed the highest relative demand"
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    Wikipediautism: A Multilingual Analysis of Autism-Related Wikipedia Articles in Six Languages
    From link.springer.com
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    Aug 13
    "all LLM-judges, including Grok, ... rate Grokipedia less neutral than Wikipedia" "Grokipedia particularly favours economically rightwing politicians and penalises socially liberal ones, while Wikipedia is rated as favourably biased towards the latter" arxiv.org/html/2607.1514…
    "Fig. 1. Methodology overview: members of government (WhoGov, 20162023) are mapped to expert-coded V-Party ideology scores, their Wikipedia and Grokipedia articles are rated for neutrality by four LLM judges, and the effects of ideology on the ratings are estimated via OLS regression." (from Vlahos et al. 2026, CC BY 4.0)
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