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Category: Research & Analytics

From hell to HTML: releasing a Python package to easily work with Wikimedia HTML dumps

24 February 2023 by Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnsonand Nazia Tasnim

What is in an edit? Automated detection of edit types on Wikipedia

28 June 2022 by Isaac Johnsonand Jesse Amamgbu

Analyzing the Wikipedia clickstream just got easier with WikiNav

17 September 2021 by Muniza A, Isaac Johnsonand Martin Gerlach

The Wikipedia image/caption matching challenge and a huge release of image data for research!

9 September 202126 May 2026 by Miriam Redi, Fabian Kaelinand Tiziano Piccardi

Searching for Wikipedia

7 June 2021 by Dan Andreescu, Kinneret Gordon, Isaac Johnsonand Nicholas Perry

Upgrading Hadoop in just one day

7 May 2021 by Luca Toscanoand Joseph Allemandou

Censorship, outages and Internet shutdowns: monitoring Wikipedia’s accessibility around the world

15 January 2021 by Marcel R. Forns, Diego Saezand Sukhbir Singh

Bot or Not? Identifying “fake” traffic on Wikipedia

5 October 2020 by Joseph Allemandou, Leila Ziaand MusikAnimal

MediaWiki History: the best dataset on Wikimedia content and contributors

1 October 202019 May 2026 by Marcel Forns, Joseph Allemandou, Dan Andreescuand Nuria Ruiz

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