Video How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing2022-05-29
A light-hearted video-based submission from a community member that explores the 2006 accidental block of Qatar from editing.
In the media Political hijinks2018-12-24
Wikipedia says 'ta' to British M.P. and 'buh-bye' to U.S. President's image vandals.
In the media Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill2017-06-23
The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile edits, hacked articles, and one particular newborn growing up.
Blog Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia2016-01-13
Jeff Elder talks sports vandalism on the Wikimedia blog
Recent research OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access2015-08-26
OpenSym 2015 report: A look at the research presented at the OpenSym 2015 conference.
In the media Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free2015-07-22
Three novelists "have found a way to control the Wikipedia narrative" by using the annotation website Genius to annotate their own Wikipedia articles.
In the media Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news2014-08-27
Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.
Recent research Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection2014-07-30
Shifting values in the paid content debate: Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.
Recent research Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments2013-12-25
Analyzing edits to the-then 46 largest Wikipedias between July 9 and August 8, 2013, a study identified a set of about 8,000 contributors with a global user account who have edited more than one of these language versions in that time frame.
Special report Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications2013-02-04
Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: On February 12, 2012, news of Whitney Houston's death brought 425 hits per second to her Wikipedia article, the highest peak traffic on any article since at least January 2010. It is broadly known that Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website on the Internet, but the English Wikipedia now has over 4 million articles and 29 million total pages. Much less attention has been given to traffic patterns and trends in content viewed.
