Do Black Wikipedians Matter? Confronting the Whiteness in Wikipedia with Archives and Libraries by Smith, Kai

“…In June 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation released a statement in support of Black Lives highlighting the support they provide to U.S.…”
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The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation by Hill, Benjamin Mako, Shaw, Aaron

“…A 2008 survey conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation and United Nations University at Maastricht is the source of a frequently cited statistic that less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are female. …”
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The Wikipedia Library: the biggest encyclopedia needs a digital library and we are building it by Jake Orlowitz

“…The Wikipedia Library (TWL) is an international project supported by Wikimedia Foundation, which aims to provide library and reference services to Wikipedia editors and readers; this is making possible the direct access to bibliographic references which support “all human knowledge.” …”
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Action research as a congruent methodology for understanding wikis: the case of Wikiversity by Cormac Lawler

“…This proposal is contextualised within the case of Wikiversity, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. A framework for a participative research project is outlined, and challenges and implications of such a methodology are discussed.Editors: Andreia Santos (Open University, UK).Reviewers: Rob Nadolski (Open University, NL), Ray Corrigan (Open University, UK), and Andreia Santos (Open University, UK).…”
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The Wikipedia Library: the biggest encyclopedia needs a digital library and we are building it by Jake Orlowitz

“…The Wikipedia Library (TWL) is an international project supported by Wikimedia Foundation, which aims to provide library and reference services to Wikipedia editors and readers; this is making possible the direct access to bibliographic references which support “all human knowledge.” …”
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The Wikipedia Library: the biggest encyclopedia needs a digital library and we are building it by Jake Orlowitz

“…The Wikipedia Library (TWL) is an international project supported by Wikimedia Foundation, which aims to provide library and reference services to Wikipedia editors and readers; this is making possible the direct access to bibliographic references which support “all human knowledge.” …”
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SPARQLing Ogham – Irische Ogham-Steine als Linked Open Data by Florian Thiery

“…This data paper describes the first data publication created as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Open Science Fellows Program.…”
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Produire collectivement du sens en temps de crise : l'utilisation de Wikipédia lors de la pandémie de COVID-19 by Sandrine Bubendorff, Caroline Rizza

“…We conducted a qualitative investigation mobilizing an ethnographic analysis of the Wikipedia's pages related to the pandemic as well as interviews with its contributors and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation-France. We show how the Wikipedians' know-how allows to offer a reading of the current dramatic event, vector of uncertainty. …”
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Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project by Heather Ford, Andrew Iliadis

“…Wikidata is a knowledge base (i.e., a database of facts) project of the Wikimedia Foundation and a sister project to Wikipedia that contains billions of facts that anyone can edit. …”
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Digital Cultural Heritage and Wikimedia Commons Licenses: by Elizabeth Joan Kelly

“…Cultural heritage institutions can contribute to public knowledge and increase awareness of their collections by uploading digital objects to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. However, prior research has established the difficulty of and/or hesitation by many cultural heritage institutions in clearly and accurately labeling the copyright status of their born-digital and digitized collections. …”
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Monetary Materialities of Peer-Produced Knowledge: The Case of Wikipedia and Its Tensions with Paid Labour by Arwid Lund, Juhana Venäläinen

“…By examining the case of Wiki-PR, a consultant firm allegedly involved in helping more than 12,000 clients to edit Wikipedia articles until 2014, the goal of the analysis is to shed light on the paradoxical situation where the institution for supporting the peer production (Wikimedia Foundation) found itself taking a more strict perspective against commercial alliances than the unpaid community editors.…”
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Rezension der Deutschsprachigen Wikisource by Susanne Haaf

“…As a sub-project of the Wikimedia Foundation it is substantially based on the non-profit work of voluntarily engaged people. …”
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A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia by Daniele Rama, Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Rossano Schifanella

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A new kind of travel guide or more of the same ? Wikivoyage and Cambodia by Luyt, Brendan

“…Purpose: Given Wikipedia’s size and importance to the world’s information infrastructure, it can be forgotten that there exists under the same Wikimedia Foundation umbrella, a number of other volunteer wikis producing information on a variety of topics and subjects. …”
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Bridging LGBT+ Content Gaps Across Wikipedia Language Editions by Marc Miquel-Ribé, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Jeffrey M. Keefer

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Politicize my Bioethics by Celina Malavé

“…[ii] "Egg Donation." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 July 2014. Web. 21 May 2014.  …”
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