Blogs and research
Blogs related to and exploring all things Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia related.
Blogs
Wikimedian in Residence (blog posts)
Wikimedia UK (blog posts)
Wiki Edu (blog posts)
Teaching Matters (blog posts)
Open Ed (blog posts)
Host a wikimedian: you can’t afford not to - Melissa Highton.
Scotland loves Monuments- documenting our cultural heritage online - Ewan McAndrew.
Wikipedia as Learning Technology: Teaching Knowledge Activism vs Passive Consumption - Hannah Rothmann.
Wikipedia, research and representation - Amy Burge.
Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
What do you do with a dead chemist - Anne-Marie Scott.
Wikipedia and Student Writing - Andrew Stuhl.
Selected articles and research
Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial. Research paper about how Wikipedia actively influences science development, providing evidence of causality, instead of the usual correlation. (Video)
COVID-19
"Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia Following COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions" by Horta Ribeiro et al. Study on how the pandemic, alongside the severe mobility restrictions that ensued, impacted information access on the world's largest online encyclopaedia.
Wikipedia in the British Medical Journal - "Enriching Wikipedia content is, potentially, a powerful way to improve #healthliteracy and it is possible to test the effects of seeding pages with evidence. This trial should be replicated, expanded and developed".
"Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it." - in the Washington Post.
"COVID-19 research in Wikipedia" Colavizza, 2020 - Study investigates the surge of new scientific publications on COVID-19 (>20,000 new articles).