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Wiki Workshop 2026
A forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects. Held virtually as a standalone event, March 25 & 26, 2026.

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Registration

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Wiki Workshop 2026 will be held virtually. Registration on Pretix is required for attending the event. Once you register, the organizing team reviews your registration request and we will send you the information you need to connect to the event through the email you provide during registration. Register here!

Program

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Wiki Workshop 2026 will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, March 25 & 26, 2026, starting at 14:00 UTC on both days.

Please see the high-level schedule of the workshop below. More information on the program will be added here in the weeks leading to the workshop.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Time (in UTC) Session
14:00 - 14:15 Welcome and orientation
14:15 - 14:30 Getting to know each other
14:30 - 15:45 Research track: parallel sessions (I)

Parallel Session A: AI, Wikipedia, and Governance

  • Editing with Machines: Volunteer Perspectives on Generative AI in Wikipedia
    Anwesha Chakraborty, Netha Hussain
  • The Efficiency-Diversity Trade-off in AI-Assisted Translation on Wikipedia
    Kai Zhu, Kai Gu, Lorenzo Lupo
  • Finding Representative Images for Wikipedia by Quizzing VLMs
    Ji Tenghao, Eytan Adar
  • Understanding the Impact of WikiVault, an LLM-Assisted Editing Tool on the Korean Wikipedia
    Inhwa Song, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
  • Wiki-Pie: A Policy Invocation and Enactment English Wikipedia Dataset
    Sohyeon Hwang, Nathan TeBlunthuis

Parallel Session B: Community participation and dynamics

  • Who Gets Rejected? An Exploratory Look at Wikipedian Socialization by Its Dark Side
    Léo Joubert
  • Direct Communication as a Quality Booster: Analysing WikiProject Contributions
    Agnieszka Rychwalska, Szymon Talaga, Karolina Ziembowicz, Dariusz Jemielniak
  • The Role of Online Risks in Scholars' Willingness to Appear on Wikipedia in Writing and Images
    J. Nathan Matias, Sarah Gilbert, Francesca Bolla Tripodi, Vivian Ito, Edward Platt, Ady Weng
  • Reasoning about Notability: An Argument Mining and Thematic Analysis of Deletion Debates in Wikipedia
    Khandaker Tasnim Huq, Jiarui Xia, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
  • Having Confidence in My Confidence Intervals: How Data Users Engage with Privacy-Protected Wikipedia Data
    Harold Triedman, Jayshree Sarathy, Priyanka Nanayakkara, Rachel Cummings, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Sean Kross, Elissa M Redmiles
15:45 - 16:00 Break + Live music
16:00 - 17:15 Research track: parallel sessions (II)

Parallel Session A: Research tools, methods, and datasets

  • WikiSnap25: Datasets for Wikipedia Article and Wikidata Entity Research
    Paul Albert
  • Explicit vs. Implicit Biographies: Evaluating and Adapting LLM Information Extraction on Wikidata-Derived Texts
    Alessandra Stramiglio, Andrea Schimmenti, Valentina Pasqual, Francesco Sovrano, Marieke van Erp, Fabio Vitali
  • Wiki3DRank: A Lightweight Method for Estimating the Relevance of Knowledge Objects in Wikimedia Projects
    Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez, Tomas Saorin
  • Exploring the Spectrum between Human Editing and Bot Editing with Wikipedia Metadata
    Max Wang, Ashik Ahamed, Jeanna Matthews
  • A Scalable Pipeline for Wikipedia Community Health Dashboards
    Andrea Denina, Paolo Aliprandi, Marc Miquel-Ribé, David Laniado, Cristian Consonni

Parallel Session B: Systems of Knowledge and Multilingual Wikipedia

  • Cultural POV? Negotiating Situated Knowledge on the French Wikipedia
    Sabrina Mac Gregor, Nathalie Casemajor
  • Between Inclusivity and Linguistic Prescriptivism: Non-Binary Biographical Articles across Wikipedia's Language Versions
    Jochen Matthies
  • WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and Minority Language Editions
    Zining Wang, Dongwook Yoon, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Samir, Vered Shwartz
  • OpenSpeaks Archives: Citing Low-Resourced Language Oral History Multimedia
    Subhashish Panigrahi, Opino Gomango, Kimmi Pal
  • Taking a Data Work Approach to New Language Communities on Wikipedia
    Mali Konstad Brødreskift
17:15 - 17:20 Break
17:20 - 17:30 Connections
17:30 - 17:55 Ask Me Anything
17:55 - 18:00 Day 1 wrap-up

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Time (in UTC) Session
14:00 - 14:10 Welcome and orientation
14:10 - 14:25 Getting to know each other
14:25 - 15:40 Research track: parallel sessions (III)

Parallel Session A: Meta (Research) Wiki -- the state of the Wiki Research Ecosystem

  • Refractive Datasets as a Sensemaking Methodology in Closed Data Ecosystems
    Anna Beers, Viviane Ito, Agustin Orozco, Patrick Gildersleve, Pablo Aragón, Francesca Bolla Tripodi
  • Who is Funding Research Related to Wikimedia? A Bibliometric Study of Funders, Journals, and Authors
    Brett Buttliere, Matthew A. Vetter, Lane Rasberry, Iolanda Pensa, Daniel Mietchen, Susanna Mkrtchyan
  • DivinWD: Insights from Wikidata for Measuring Diversity in Scholarly Publications
    Zeno Saletti, Cristian Consonni, Pedro Frau, Emilia Gomez
  • The Four Angles of Popular Wikipedia Research
    Steve Jankowski
  • Entangled Commons: Wikimedia Enterprise and Relational Platform Power
    Nathalie Casemajor

Parallel Session B: Content quality and integrity

  • Popularity, Quality, and Protection in Wikipedia's Most-Read Articles
    Renita Murimi
  • Data Filters Reveal Quality Issues in Non-English Wikipedias
    Artur Kulmizev, Kushal Tatariya, Wessel Poelman, Esther Ploeger, Marcel Bollmann, Johannes Bjerva, Jiaming Luo, Heather Lent, Miryam de Lhoneux
  • The Persistence of Retracted Papers on Wikipedia
    Haohan Shi, Yulin Yu, Daniel Romero, Emoke-Agnes Horvat
  • Wikipedia × PubPeer: Which Citations Are Under Scrutiny?
    Cristian Cazzaniga, Cristian Consonni
15:40 - 16:00 Break + Live music
16:00 - 17:15 Research track: parallel sessions (IV)

Parallel Session A: Reading and Writing Praxis

  • An Exploratory Study on Large Language Model Integration in Wikipedia Assignments
    Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos, Lilian Cássia Bórnia Jacob, Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga
  • Design and Implementation of a Microbial Science Exhibition Using Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
    Luis Fernando Flores
  • Revisiting the Rabbit Hole: The Hypertextual Friction of Wikipedia
    Sophia Liu
  • The Impact of LLM Adoption on Student Writing: Lessons from Wikipedia Assignments
    Francesco Salvi, Sage Ross, Robert E. Cummings, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
  • Mirrors and Distortions: A Large-Scale Comparison of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
    Saeedeh Mohammadi, Taha Yasseri

Parallel Session B: Cultural representation and content gaps

  • Gender Gap on Ukrainian Wikipedia: Evolution, Mitigation Strategies
    Anton Protsiuk
  • Preliminary Results of Wikipedia Readership Research: Geographic Regional Self-Focus and Relatively Stable Viewing of Broad Topic Areas across Regions
    Andrew Russell Green
  • Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages
    Gerrit Quaremba, Denny Vrandečić, Elizabeth Black, Elena Simperl
  • How Wikipedia Disambiguates: Quantifying and Cross-Language Analysis of Disambiguation
    Tomas Saorin, Florencia Claes
  • Framing War Across Languages: Power, Agency, and Sentiment in Wikipedia's Multilingual War Narratives
    Jiarui Xia, Diego Gomez-Zara
17:15 - 17:20 Break
17:20 - 17:30 Connection
17:30 - 17:45 WMF-RAY Award Ceremony
17:45 - 18:15 Unconference
18:15 - 18:30 Looking to the future and wrap
18:30 - 19:00 Connection time post workshop

Accepted extended abstracts

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Below you can find the full list of 40 accepted extended abstracts that will be presented and discussed as part of the Research track of Wiki Workshop 2026. Congratulations to all authors!

Agnieszka Rychwalska, Szymon Talaga, Karolina Ziembowicz, Dariusz Jemielniak.
Direct Communication as a Quality Booster: Analysing WikiProject Contributions.

Alessandra Stramiglio, Andrea Schimmenti, Valentina Pasqual, Francesco Sovrano, Marieke van Erp, Fabio Vitali.
Explicit vs. Implicit Biographies: Evaluating and Adapting LLM Information Extraction on Wikidata-Derived Texts.

Andrew Russell Green.
Preliminary Results of Wikipedia Readership Research: Geographic Regional Self-Focus and Relatively Stable Viewing of Broad Topic Areas across Regions.

Anna Beers, Viviane Ito, Agustin Orozco, Patrick Gildersleve, Pablo Aragón, Francesca Bolla Tripodi.
Refractive Datasets as a Sensemaking Methodology in Closed Data Ecosystems.

Anton Protsiuk.
Gender Gap on Ukrainian Wikipedia: Evolution, Mitigation Strategies.

Artur Kulmizev, Kushal Tatariya, Wessel Poelman, Esther Ploeger, Marcel Bollmann, Johannes Bjerva, Jiaming Luo, Heather Lent, Miryam de Lhoneux.
Data Filters Reveal Quality Issues in Non-English Wikipedias.

Brett Buttliere, Matthew A. Vetter, Lane Rasberry, Iolanda Pensa, Daniel Mietchen, Susanna Mkrtchyan.
Who is Funding Research Related to Wikimedia? A Bibliometric Study of Funders, Journals, and Authors.

Cristian Cazzaniga, Cristian Consonni.
Wikipedia × PubPeer: Which Citations Are Under Scrutiny?

Francesco Salvi, Sage Ross, Robert E. Cummings, Manoel Horta Ribeiro.
The Impact of LLM Adoption on Student Writing: Lessons from Wikipedia Assignments.

Gerrit Quaremba, Denny Vrandečić, Elizabeth Black, Elena Simperl.
Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages.

Haohan Shi, Yulin Yu, Daniel Romero, Emoke-Agnes Horvat.
The Persistence of Retracted Papers on Wikipedia.

Harold Triedman, Jayshree Sarathy, Priyanka Nanayakkara, Rachel Cummings, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Sean Kross, Elissa M Redmiles.
Having Confidence in My Confidence Intervals: How Data Users Engage with Privacy-Protected Wikipedia Data.

Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos, Lilian Cássia Bórnia Jacob, Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga.
An Exploratory Study on Large Language Model Integration in Wikipedia Assignments.

Inhwa Song, Manoel Horta Ribeiro.
Understanding the Impact of WikiVault, an LLM-Assisted Editing Tool on the Korean Wikipedia.

J. Nathan Matias, Sarah Gilbert, Francesca Bolla Tripodi, Vivian Ito, Edward Platt, Ady Weng.
The Role of Online Risks in Scholars' Willingness to Appear on Wikipedia in Writing and Images.

Ji Tenghao, Eytan Adar.
Finding Representative Images for Wikipedia by Quizzing VLMs.

Jiarui Xia, Diego Gomez-Zara.
Framing War Across Languages: Power, Agency, and Sentiment in Wikipedia's Multilingual War Narratives.

Jochen Matthies.
Between Inclusivity and Linguistic Prescriptivism: Non-Binary Biographical Articles across Wikipedia's Language Versions.

Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez, Tomas Saorin.
Wiki3DRank: A Lightweight Method for Estimating the Relevance of Knowledge Objects in Wikimedia Projects.

Kai Zhu, Kai Gu, Lorenzo Lupo.
The Efficiency-Diversity Trade-off in AI-Assisted Translation on Wikipedia.

Khandaker Tasnim Huq, Jiarui Xia, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia.
Reasoning about Notability: An Argument Mining and Thematic Analysis of Deletion Debates in Wikipedia.

Léo Joubert.
Who Gets Rejected? An Exploratory Look at Wikipedian Socialization by Its Dark Side.

Luis Fernando Flores.
Design and Implementation of a Microbial Science Exhibition Using Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Mali Konstad Brødreskift.
Taking a Data Work Approach to New Language Communities on Wikipedia.

Max Wang, Ashik Ahamed, Jeanna Matthews.
Exploring the Spectrum between Human Editing and Bot Editing with Wikipedia Metadata.

Nathalie Casemajor.
Entangled Commons: Wikimedia Enterprise and Relational Platform Power.

Paul Albert.
WikiSnap25: Datasets for Wikipedia Article and Wikidata Entity Research.

Renita Murimi.
Popularity, Quality, and Protection in Wikipedia's Most-Read Articles.

Sabrina Mac Gregor, Nathalie Casemajor.
Cultural POV? Negotiating Situated Knowledge on the French Wikipedia.

Saeedeh Mohammadi, Taha Yasseri.
Mirrors and Distortions: A Large-Scale Comparison of Grokipedia and Wikipedia.

Sohyeon Hwang, Nathan TeBlunthuis.
Wiki-Pie: A Policy Invocation and Enactment English Wikipedia Dataset.

Sophia Liu.
Revisiting the Rabbit Hole: The Hypertextual Friction of Wikipedia.

Steve Jankowski.
The Four Angles of Popular Wikipedia Research.

Subhashish Panigrahi, Opino Gomango, Kimmi Pal.
OpenSpeaks Archives: Citing Low-Resourced Language Oral History Multimedia.

Tomas Saorin, Florencia Claes.
How Wikipedia Disambiguates: Quantifying and Cross-Language Analysis of Disambiguation.

Zeno Saletti, Cristian Consonni, Pedro Frau, Emilia Gomez.
DivinWD: Insights from Wikidata for Measuring Diversity in Scholarly Publications.

Zining Wang, Dongwook Yoon, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Samir, Vered Shwartz.
WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and Minority Language Editions.