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Getting started

If you're new to Wikimedia research and data, these resources can help you get started:

• Research:Data - Overview of data sources and access methods
• Research:Data_introduction - Explanation of key concepts and data domains
• Beginner PAWS notebooks and tutorials:
  • Working with Wikimedia content
  • Working with community data through the Mediawiki API
  • Working with HTML dumps

Bibliographies and References

• Wiki Research Bibliography - a bibliography of scientific publications.
• Critical Wikimedia Research Bibliography (en) – a bibliography dedicated to social science and humanities research.
• List of academic studies about Wikipedia (en) on Wikipedia
• Academic studies of health information on Wikipedia (en) on Wikipedia
• Wikibibliographie ENCYCLEN (fr/en) - especially see a list (archive) compiled by Institut français de l'éducation (fr)
• strategy:Wikimedia-pedia/Research
• Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments, review by Finn Årup Nielsen
• WikiPapers, a wiki research literature compilation (conference papers, journal articles, theses, datasets and tools)
• Works about Wikimedia projects known to Wikidata
• Mapping Wikipedia (en) - various maps using geocoded Wikipedia pages by floatingsheep

Communities and Groups

• Wikihistories
• Social Research Collaborations
• dbpedia - Querying Wikipedia like a Database (archive) (en)
• Semantic Wiki Interest Group (archive)
• Critical Point of View (CPoV) (archive)
  • Wikipedia Research Initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India)

Conferences and Events

• Wikimania
• The Web Conference
• ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
• Wiki Workshop
• Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
• ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)
• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• OpenSym
• CoNLL
• ICDM
• WSDM
• AAAI
• ACM FAT

Research Tools: Statistics, Visualization, etc.

See also: 4useful statistics about users and pages, and has interesting features like differentiating between types of edits.

• Wikistats
• WikiXRay A Python tool collecting scripts to automate the quantitative analysis of any language version of Wikipedia. Mainly developed to support the analyses included in Felipe Ortega's PhD. thesis "Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis"
• StatMediaWiki, a statistical analysis tool for wikis
• Related pages:
  • en:Wikipedia:Computer help desk
  • en:Wikipedia:Scripts - mainly scripts to activate wikilinks in various IRC programs
  • en:Wikipedia:Tools - various types of tools: bookmarklets, user scripts, etc.
  • en:Wikipedia:WikiProject User CSS - a similar project
• DMI Tools pertaining to Wikipedia
• User retention analysis

Wikimedia Research Links

• Artikel in Information Wissenschaft & Praxis (de, 2004)
• Search for 'Wikipedia+Research at our mailing lists
• Selbstreflexion_der_Wikipedia (de)
  • /Bibliographie - bibliography (mostly moved to # Wiki Research Bibliography)
• Wikibooks:Wikiresearch (en)
• Wikipedistik (de)
• Ethically researching Wikipedia

Style guides

• Product Analytics style guide: code conventions for SQL, Python, and R. Consider adopting them to make your work more consistent and easier for others in the movement to read!