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:…
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)
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…
"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"
"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…