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Research:Impact of Source Access on Knowledge Production

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Created
22:32, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Duration:  2024-November – ??

This page documents a research project in progress.
Information may be incomplete and change as the project progresses.
Please contact the project lead before formally citing or reusing results from this page.


In this project, we seek to understand the impact of resource access on public goods contributors using the case of the Wikipedia Library, the Wikipedians who use it to write articles, and ultimately on the public. What impact does the Wikipedia Library have on the contributions and citation behaviors of Wikipedians?

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In progress.

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In progress.

Policy, Ethics and Human Subjects Research

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We are working in partnership with the Wikipedia Library and Wikimedia Research; our planned work does not intervene into the work of Wikipedians or involve any changes to Wikipedia itself.

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