Super excited for the launch workshop for our research centre. Sign up below for the public roundtable!

A really great read overall on how Wikipedia has survived the Internet, and the challenges it still faces. Going straight on my students' reading lists!

I’m hardly a fan of much of the UK’s speech laws (especially regarding protest, Palestine recently), and cannot imagine what Esther Ghey has gone through. But what on earth are we doing here???

A depressing juxtaposition of news stories, there is such a disconnect in the national conversation.

A public figure directly calling for violence against trans people is met with police sympathy and instead we get phone ban campaigns to tackle online harms 🙃.

A glimmer of hope - the judge issued a warning shot towards Ofcom and the govt on protecting Wikipedia's operation in the UK. Wikimedia have focused on this in their response. We expect to find out more on Wikipedia's categorisation and obligations later this summer. This will rumble on...

Troubling news as Wikimedia's claim against the OSA is dismissed. This opens the door for onerous new requirements such as ID verification and stricter content moderation. These measures run antithetical to Wikipedia's practical operation and core principles as the encyclopaedia anyone can edit.

For even more WikiResearch at #IC2S2, I'm presenting our work on WikiReddit on Wednesday 14:30 in 'Social Media II' 🧑‍💻

I'll explain how these complementary platforms are powered by the magic of ✨𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲✨, and how our dataset can be used to study cross-platform flows of information and attention 🔀

Great session on Wikipedia at #IC2S2 with some very cool research. Strong themes of multilingual analysis and coordination dynamics

@smfsamir.bsky.social
@feloe.bsky.social

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research manifesto.wiki. As my co-authored Big Data & Society commentary explains, the manifesto is dedicated to a humanist and critical tradition of taking Wikipedia's importance seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Had a great time meeting everyone and seeing all the interesting work @icwsm.bsky.social. I presented our study on the Wikireddit dataset - exploring Wikipedia’s role in fact-checking, discussion, and cross-platform attention on the web. Thank you to the organisers!

📄: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Important starter pack research in action! I received lots of follow notifications during this talk - hopefully this work prompts more ICWSM activity here!

Very cool work at #ICWSM tracking information manipulation in response to national regulation on the Russian Wikipedia fork

From Mykola Trokhymovych, @elaragon.bsky.social, @e-migrante.bsky.social & others

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.

For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7

Let me know if I missed anyone!

Big congrats both!!!

You can still sign up for our My580 Methods Short Course 👉 Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python, by @gildersleve.uk

📆 Tuesday 27 May, from 10am - 3pm

🖱️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-tex...

Next up on our My580 Methods Short Courses 👉 Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python, by @gildersleve.uk

📆 Tuesday 27 May, from 10am - 3pm

🖱️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-tex...

We are challenging the lawfulness of the UK’s Online Safety Act Categorisation Regulations, which determine our obligations under UK laws.

These rules create unacceptable risks for Wikipedia’s volunteer users, such as disempowering those who wish to keep their identity private.

Read ➡️ w.wiki/E3XD

I have two postdoc positions for a computer scientist and a social scientist to work on my ERC-funded project HUMANET Human-Machine Social Systems at LSE. Please read more and apply at jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/.... More information about the project is available at humanet.science.

📣Call for papers!

1️⃣ week left to send your 250-word abstract for @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and ‪@dandekadt.bsky.social‬'s two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research"

Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

@lsedatascience.bsky.social

🙏 Thank you to @wikiresearch.bsky.social and the reddit4researchers programme for the data access. I spoke more about this and other projects as part of the January Wikimedia research showcase, which you can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/gvF8p4r...

On exploratory analysis, we find:
📉 Declining activity in posts, but stable performance of Wikipedia content on Reddit
🔗 Strong correlations between Wikipedia and Reddit activity
🌍 Intriguing asymmetric patterns of cross-lingual linking, dominated by English

👷 Care has been taken to omit and anonymise any potentially personally identifiable information. Future researchers with access to the Reddit and Wikipedia APIs can enrich their analyses by pulling extra data (e.g. post content) and linking to the processed cross-platform information provided here.

📂 The SQL database contains:
- All Reddit posts and comments mentioning Wikipedia 2020-23, including hyperlinks, hashed IDs, and metadata.
- Edit history and page view activity for Wikipedia articles at the time of posting, page IDs, and redirects.