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In the July issue of our newsletter:
* LLMs and Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View"
* 20 years of user blocks
* A look at the Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias
and more:
WikiResearch
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Research news on @Wikipedia @Wikidata @Wikimedia, hot off the press. Volunteer-curated by @tilmanbayer & @mad_astronaut. Read our newsletter for full coverage
- "Multilingual Reference Need Assessment System for Wikipedia", using a BERT-based model arxiv.org/pdf/2603.17146 (Model card: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine_l… )
- In the latest issue of our monthly newsletter: * Proposed tagging system for AI-involved edits on Wikipedia and Commons * Successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
- "Labeling the Spectrum of AI Involvement: New Tag Proposals for Wikipedia and Commons" people.clarkson.edu/~jmatthew/publ… (suggests extending the [[Special:Tags]] edit labeling system)
- Randomized experiment: Using a LLM (ChatGPT 5 Instant) in a Wikipedia editing assignment improved undergraduates' "linguistic polish", but had no significant effect on content quality and verifiability (i.e. citation coverage and reliability of sources)
