Wiki Workshop 2025/Attendees
Wiki Workshop 2025
A forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects. Held virtually as a standalone event, May 21 & 22, 2025.
| Home | Authors | Attendees | Organization |
Registration
[edit]Wiki Workshop 2025 is held virtually. Registration is required for attending the event. You can register up to 24 hours before the start of the event on May 21, 2025, 14:00 UTC. 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!
Program
[edit]Wiki Workshop will be held virtually on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, from 14:00 to 18:00 UTC and Thursday, May 22, 2025, from 11:00 to 15:00 UTC.
Please find the detailed schedule below. Note that this schedule is our best effort planning for the start and end time of the sessions. The actual start and end times can be slightly different throughout the day. Participants will have access to a Day_of document that will help them navigate the exact schedule during the two days of the event.
| Day | time (UTC) | event |
| Wednesday | 14:00 - 14:15 | Welcome and orientation |
| 14:15 - 14:35 | Getting to know each other | |
| 14:35 - 15:50 | Research track sessions (I) | |
| 15:50 - 15:55 | break | |
| 15:55 - 16:05 | live music | |
| 16:05 - 16:35 | Ask Me Anything | |
| 16:35 - 16:40 | break | |
| 16:40 - 17:55 | Research track sessions (II) | |
| 17:55 - 18:00 | Day 1 wrap-up | |
| Thursday | 11:00 - 11:05 | Welcome to Day 2 |
| 11:05 - 12:20 | Research track sessions (III) | |
| 12:20 - 12:25 | break | |
| 12:25 - 12:35 | Music | |
| 12:35 - 13:20 | Unconference time | |
| 13:20 - 13:25 | break | |
| 13:25 - 13:55 | AMA - TBA | |
| 13:55 - 14:00 | Music | |
| 14:00 -14:15 | award | |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | townhall | |
| 14:45 - 14:55 | Day 2 wrap-up and closing |
The times in the table below are in UTC. 14:00 UTC is 7:00 in San Francisco, 10:00 in New York City, 17:00 in Nairobi, and 22:00 in Beijing.
Accepted extended abstracts
[edit]Below you can find the 46 accepted extended abstracts that will be presented and discussed as part of the Research track of Wiki Workshop 2025. Congratulations to all authors!
Houcemeddine Turki, Mus'ab Banat, Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen, Ilario Valdelli, khalil Chebil, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ben Aouicha.
Exploring Biomedical Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Data Pipeline. [PDF]
Nicole Schwitter.
From meetups to adminship: The offline path to leadership on the German-language Wikipedia. [PDF]
Leonardo Ermann, Klaus Frahm, Dima Shepelyanksy.
Competition of entries from Ising Wikipedia networks. [PDF]
Miquel Centelles Velilla, Marina Salse, Fran Kugler, Nurida Ferran, Julià Minguillón.
Data Extraction Methods for Analyzing Gender Bias on Wikipedia's Front Page. [PDF]
Léo Joubert, Nicolas Jullien.
Knowing How to Contribute, Contributing, and Contributing Often: Refining the Statistical Relationship Between Social Profile and Contribution. [PDF]
Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos, Rafael Ghidini, Túllio Morais Franca, Lilian Cássia Bornia Jacob.
Structuring Georeferenced Open Data of Brazilian Schools on Wikidata. [PDF]
Daniel Baránek.
Wikimedia versus Traditional Biographical Encyclopedias?. [PDF]
Carlos Areia, Kath Burton, Michael Taylor, Charles Watkinson.
Research Citations Building Trust in Wikipedia: Results from a Survey of Published Authors. [PDF]
David Abella, David Laniado.
Exploring Wikipedia community practices for information reliability during the 2024 European Parliament election. [PDF]
Matthew A. Vetter, Brett Buttliere.
Incentivizing Academic Researchers' and Scientists' Engagement in Wikimedia Projects. [PDF]
Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Ege Atacan Doğan.
Class Order Disorder in Wikidata. [PDF]
Eli Asikin-Garmager, Yu-Ming Liou, Caroline Myrick, Claudia Lo.
Wikipedia administrators: Recruitment, retention, and attrition across large language versions of the free knowledge encyclopedia. [PDF]
Finn Årup Nielsen.
Games for the lexemes in Wikidata. [PDF]
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Yanna Papadodimitraki.
Backlinks for Sale: A First Look into Marketplaces Selling Wikipedia Backlinks. [PDF]
Samuele Vallisa, Yelena Mejova, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Pablo Aragón.
Wikidebate and the Shape of Public Spheres Online. [PDF]
Paschalis Agapitos, Juan-Luis Suárez, Gustavo A. Schwartz.
Connectivity of Notability Features in Wikipedia Across Centuries. [PDF]
Valerie Zermatten, Javiera Castillo Navarro, Pallavi Jain, Diego Marcos, Devis Tuia.
WikiRS : Using species descriptions in Wikipedia and remote sensing to learn about the ecological properties of a place. [PDF]
H. Laurie Jones.
Wikipedia Article Ecosystem: Leveraging History, Navigation, Collaboration, and Consumption Behaviors. [PDF]
Tracy Wei, Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Michael S. Bernstein.
Bridging the Accessibility Gap: Generative AI for Alt Text on Wikipedia. [PDF]
Farhan Samir, Chan Young Park, Zining Wang, Anjalie Field, Vered Shwartz, Yulia Tsvetkov.
Measuring Cross-Lingual Information Gaps in English Wikipedia: A Case Study of LGBT People Portrayals. [PDF]
Rona Aviram, Omer Benjakob.
Are we headed for another AI winter? Investigating the evolution of artificial intelligence as seen through Wikipedia’s archives. [PDF]
Abbad Diraneyya, Michel Bakni, Wael Tellat.
WikiTermBase: An AI-Augmented Term Base to Standardize Arabic Translation on Wikipedia. [PDF]
Lozana Rossenova, Florian Thiery, Olaf Simons.
Wikibase Instances in the Cultural Heritage Domain: Examples of Collaboration and Federation from the German Humanities NFDI Consortia. [PDF]
Adam Wight, Simulo, Kavitha Appakayala, Abhishek Bhardwaj, Nathaly Toledo.
Translation Imbalances Between Wikipedia Language Editions. [PDF]
Judith Spirig.
Of Polish Victimhood: How Wikipedia Captures Collective Memory. [PDF]
Elena Simperl, Odinaldo Rodrigues, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Gabriel Maia Rocha Amaral, Nathan Gavenski, Jongmo kim, Miriam Redi, Yihang Zhao.
Introducing ProVe for Wikidata: Automatic Verification of References. [PDF]
Matthew Gaughan, Aaron Shaw, Darren Gergle.
Theorizing the Relationship Between Wikimedia Feature Deployments and MediaWiki Software Engineering. [PDF]
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Rodrigo Costas, Adrián A. Díaz-Faes.
Does social attention to diseases align with research efforts and prevalence? A preliminary analysis using Wikipedia and OpenAlex. [PDF]
Jordan H. Kesner.
Wikipedia and the National Football League: A Deep Dive into Online Fandoms. [PDF]
Nathan TeBlunthuis, Kaylea Champion.
Work in progress: The impact of source access on knowledge production. [PDF]
Ryan McGrady.
The Block Log: 20 Years of Content Moderation on Wikipedia. [PDF]
Abraham Israeli, David Jurgens, Daniel Romero.
A Test of Time: Predicting the Sustainable Success of Online Collaboration in Wikipedia. [PDF]
Subhashish Panigrahi.
Open Speaks Archives: Learning from A Pilot to Enrich Wikipedia with Citable Oral History in Low-Resourced Languages. [PDF]
Andressa Inácio de Oliveira Bonatto.
An Insider’s History of the Wikimedia Movement: A Work in Progress. [PDF]
Yunqian Bao, ChengXiang Zhai.
Towards More Verifiable LLM-Generated Wikipedia Articles. [PDF]
Yihan Yu, David W. McDonald.
Exploring the Commons Community’s Experience with Computer-Aided Image Tagging. [PDF]
Heather Ford, Michael Davis.
Implications of generative AI for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia. [PDF]
Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Ebru Sanliturk, Emilio Zagheni.
Wikipedia as a Tool for Tracking Mass Migration Flows: Insights from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. [PDF]
Laurent Mell, Nicolas Jullien.
Wikipedia readings in the lens of ordinary reading practices. [PDF]
Henrique de Andrade.
Anyone can edit, but what can be edited? Controversies in quality and openness in building Wikipedia. [PDF]
Patrick Gildersleve, Anna Beers, Viviane Ito, Agustin Orozco, Francesca Bolla Tripodi.
WikiReddit: Tracing Information and Attention Flows Between Online Platforms. [PDF]
Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Krzysztof Wecel, Witold Abramowicz.
Utilizing citation index and synthetic quality measure to compare Wikipedia languages across various topics. [PDF]
Andrew Russell Green.
Measuring Wikidata Usage on Other Wikis: Overview and Approach. [PDF]
André Charneca, Nearchos Potamitis, Lars Henning Klein, Robert West, Akhil Arora.
Large Language Models for Web Browsing in the case of Wikipedia. [PDF]
Tomás Feith, Akhil Arora, Martin Gerlach, Debjit Paul, Robert West.
Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia. [PDF]
Alexandre Rademaker, Krystelle Lionti, Brandi Ransom, Guilherme Lima, Daniel P Sanders.
Regulations in Wikidata: The case of PFAS-related regulations. [PDF]