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Wikimedia Italia implements research, to evaluate its impact and to support the planning and implementation of its projects. Research is not an objective of Wikimedia Italia; it is an activity implemented to support its objectives.

Highlights


Research Activities

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Wikimedia Italia supports the implementation of research by:

  • collaborating with universities and research agencies
  • commissioning research specifically relevant for its work (i.e. research on governance, sustainability, Wikimedia brand in Italy)
  • including research components into its main projects, such as Wiki Loves Monuments
  • co-financing researchers and Ph.D.s working on relevant topics
  • supporting small research projects which facilitate the planning and implementation of new strategies and initiatives - through microgrants or grant for volunteers ("bando volontari")
  • supporting a prize for research (i.e. Prize for Open Knowledge done in collaboration with ICOM Italia)
  • supporting research grants (1 year, 4 months) for individuals affiliated to a university implementing research
  • producing, supporting or commissioning publications which disseminate research
  • implementing surveys
  • organising and supporting the organisation of conferences

Collaborations with academia

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Wikimedia Italia has a committee focussed on strengthening its activities involving universities and on providing advice about how to engage with academia.

Furthermore Wikimedia Italia collaborates with universities by:

  • supporting Open Science (Open Access, Open Data and citizen science...)
  • organising training specifically designed for Ph.D. students (i.e. Politecnico di Milano)
  • organising training for Bachelor and Master students in collaboration with university teachers
  • having formal partnerships with universities (i.e. Università di Padova)

Academic conferences

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Training for researchers

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Course for Ph.D. students at Politecnico di Milano

Joint Ph.D. thesis

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Collaboration with the University of Milan to support and co-manage the Ph.D. thesis of Alessia Minnella about Valorisation and sustainable use of cultural heritage in the age of ecological transition: Open data and citizen science (Valorizzazione e fruizione sostenibile dei beni culturali nell'epoca della transizione ecologica: Open data e citizen science) https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Dottorato_in_collaborazione_con_UniMi.

Research Topics

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Research supported by Wikimedia Italia has been focusing on the following topics:

  • Italian heritage on Wikipedia, the Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap, Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy, GLAMs digital strategies, existing datasets related to heritage
  • Wikimedia: governance, sustainability, brand
  • Italian school curriculum and the status of articles related to the Italian school curriculum on Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia, Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap and open licenses and open software in schoolbooks
  • Datasets Climate change
  • Community Health Metrics: presentation of the research extended to Wikipedia in Italian by the researchers (without financial support by Wikimedia Italia - thanks!)

Research Outputs

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Publications

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Data and Visualizations

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Heritage and GLAMs

School curriculum and evaluation of Wikipedia articles

Presentations of researches

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  • 2022 presentation of the extension of the research Community Health Metrics to Wikipedia in Italian thanks to Cristian Consonni, David Laniado, Marc Miquel-Ribé of Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya. Wikimedia Italia asked for the extension of the research project and the researchers made it without financial support (thanks!! - page of the research on the website of Wikimedia Italia)

Preliminary Research

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Surveys

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Support to researchers and Ph.D. candidates

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  • 2023-2026 Alessia Minnella, collaboration with the University of Milan for a PhD on Valorisation and sustainable use of cultural heritage in the age of ecological transition: Open data and citizen science / Valorizzazione e fruizione sostenibile dei beni culturali nell'epoca della transizione ecologica: Open data e citizen science (page in Italian on the website of Wikimedia Italia)
  • 2024 Tommaso Messina, researcher affiliated at the University of Turin and financed by Wikimedia Italia within the project Empowering Italian GLAMs co-financed by Wikimedia Foundation.
  • 2023-2024 Alice Fontana, researcher affiliated at the University of Turin and financed by Wikimedia Italia within the project Empowering Italian GLAMs co-financed by Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikimedia Italia contributes to a course for Ph.D. students at Politecnico di Milano.

In case of students interested in implementing a master research related to the Wikimedia projects, a volunteer from Wikimedia Italia Cristian Consonni - Ph.D. with specific experience in research on the Wikimedia projects and former board member of Wikimedia Italia - gave his availability to support them.

Support to Open Science

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