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Name
Lastname
Username
Affiliation with country/institution
Research expertise and interests
Disciplinary area
Start date
ORCID
Monica
Berti
Digitalphilologist
Leipzig University, Germany.
I study ancient Greek literature and also Wikidata (particularly the relationship between Wikidata and authority files).
Classics; Digital Humanities.
2013
ORCID
June 2025.
Farhan
Samir
smfsamir
University of Toronto, Canada
I develop methods to make non-English Wikipedia language editions more visible.
Computational Social Science; Digital Humanities; Human-Computer Interaction
2024
ORCID
February 2026
Andreas
Kaltenbrunner
Kritk
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia, Spain.
Interested in understanding human behavior both within Wikipedia and through its use as a lens on society.
Computer Science, Computational Social Science, Digital Humanities.
2011
ORCID
September 2025
Peter
Patel-Schneider.
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Retired, USA and Canada
PhD in Artificial Intelligence from University of Toronto. Research centers on Description Logics and Knowledge Graphs. Working on finding and fixing problems in the Wikidata Ontology.
Knowledge Representation.
2015?
May 2025.
Ángel
Obregón Sierra.
Vanbasten_23
UNIR
UI1
Universidad Abierta de Cataluña
(UOC).
PhD in Education. His
research areas
are Wikipedia in Education and Wikidata.
Education
2016
ORCID
2025
Steve
Jankowski
textaural
University of Amsterdam
, assistant professor.
The democratic design, Wikipedian governance history and knowledge systems.
Media studies.
ORCID
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 (AI).
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 Wikipedia aspects 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"
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:
(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)
2005 wikimania meeting: question was
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" [wording of 2005!] sources. 2026: Interested in wiki/Wikimedia research but unlikely to be active.
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.
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,
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).
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.
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).
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
ORCID
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
IGDORE
, Germany
Wikidata
, knowledge graphs, data integration, open knowledge workflows, collaborative curation, web-scale collaboration for scientific and societal progress
Data science
2010
0000-0001-9488-1870
2025
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
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
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
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
2024
Margob28
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
Denise
Smith
Mcbrarian
Canada
Wikipedia as a public health information resource
Library & information science
2018
2024
Mcbrarian
talk
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
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