Research:2025 The Wikipedia Library survey
This page documents a planned research project.
Information may be incomplete and change before the project starts.
This work is tracked in Phabricator: T402650
The Wikipedia Library has been running for over a decade, with thousands of users and now over 1 million citations added to Wikimedia projects. Although we hear a lot about the library informally, we've never run a big survey to comprehensively review what users like and don't like about the tool and its content.
Through this survey we hope to learn:
- Who uses The Wikipedia Library?
- What are users' perceptions of The Wikipedia Library?
- How do editors use the library?
- Why do some eligible editors not use The Wikipedia Library?
- What content is missing from the library?
- Is The Wikipedia Library tool useful and accessible?
The results of this survey will help us prioritise new projects and partnerships for the library.
Method
[edit]We plan to distribute a survey to all users who have ever logged in to The Wikipedia Library, except any users who didn't meet the edit count or tenure requirements to use it when they did so. This means we aim to survey any user who could have used the library when they last logged in. This will include users who both did and didn't actually access any content through it.
The survey will be sent once via email to all users meeting these criteria, in December 2025.
Privacy statement: Legal:The Wikipedia Library User Survey Privacy Statement
Results
[edit]TBD (early 2026)