WikiResearch

@WikiResearch · San Francisco · joined 30 Dec 2011

Research news on @Wikipedia @Wikidata @Wikimedia, hot off the press. Volunteer-curated by @tilmanbayer & @mad_astronaut. Read our newsletter for full coverage

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7 954Posts total

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WikiResearch@WikiResearch18 Sep

In the September issue of our newsletter: * Google's AI overviews may have reduced search engine referrals to English Wikipedia by 5% (according to a preprint that has seen substantial changes) And other recent research publications https://t.co/6Xra3x7M9T https://t.co/5RjJDVEwG9

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WikiResearch@WikiResearch13 Sep

"Wikimedia research methodologies: a bibliometric history of peer production and AI (2005–2025)" https://t.co/53tKT7xR2v Argues that "industry-funded research popularized the idea that Wikipedia existed as a semantic resource to be mined" https://t.co/bcQwqKQ52o

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WikiResearch@WikiResearch11 Sep

"AI Use among [Swiss] Wikipedians in Science-Related Information & Communication" https://t.co/7AyFzWaXcx * Wikipedians much more cautious about using AI than scientists or journalists * Only 22.6% find AI useful for their Wikipedia contributions * Polarized on AI disclosure htt

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WikiResearch@WikiResearch9 Sep

"WikiStar: A System for Shedding Light on the Hidden History of Scientific Wikipedia Articles", detecting edit types such as "technical term added" using an LLM classifier https://t.co/BeFTTmW41I (with human-annotated benchmark dataset) https://t.co/NaYzfLfIRV

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WikiResearch@WikiResearch8 Sep

"SimpleWikiSearch: A Clean Offline Wikipedia Environment for Agentic Search" https://t.co/P00z3ORvyJ (Code: https://t.co/jmxjiLsyd7 ) #RAG https://t.co/B6M8147WjL

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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

5 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. copertura nella norma per la sua dimensione, reazione più debole della media.

Visualizzazioni mediane598questo account924mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %3.44%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %1.05%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	598	924	0.65×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	3.44%	3.62%	0.95×
Tasso di interazione	1.05%	1.52%	0.69×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

5698 Sep

7869 Sep

59811 Sep

95513 Sep

55518 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.23%8 Sep

1.53%9 Sep

0.17%11 Sep

1.05%13 Sep

0.90%18 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes48.1%26 in total

Reposts13.0%7 in total

Replies1.9%1 in total

Quotes1.9%1 in total

Bookmarks35.2%19 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.