Back in the summer, my colleague Franziska (Ziski) Putz from the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy team told me she wanted to propose a contribution for the Mozilla Festival to showcase the Wikipedia Test with real cases from Barcelona. The Wikipedia Test is a tool designed to assess how new technology policies might impact a public-interest … More Mozilla Festival 2025
The ACM Transactions on the Web journal just accepted our article “Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia”. The main goal of this project was to generate and assess actionable metrics for source controversiality in Wikipedia. To guarantee universality (i.e. applicability to all Wikipedia language editions), knowledge equity and avoid dependence on the specifics of … More ACM Transactions on the Web: Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia
What a week at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)! I had the pleasure of attending the 5th edition of Mestizajes International Workshop on Science and Humanities, where I was invited to share recent research from the Wikimedia Foundation on developing scientific methods to assess source reliability on Wikipedia. The event was deeply motivating as … More Mestizajes International Workshop on Science and Humanities
Maria Menendez-Blanco, Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), reached out to invite me as a guest lecturer for their Human-Computer Interaction course within the Bachelor’s program in Communication Sciences and Culture. In this course, the students learn theories and practical skills needed to analyse and design digital technologies that facilitate communication in … More Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Seminar
This week, we hosted Wiki Workshop 2025, the main forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, etc.). While the event remained virtual to maximize accessibility, it featured several new elements. Most notably, what had traditionally been a one-day event expanded to two days, allowing for better accommodation … More Wiki Workshop 2025
Wikiherramientas is a series of workshops designed to foster the exchange of knowledge, tools, and best practices for enhancing editing and organizational skills across various Wikimedia projects. Led by Wikimedistas de Uruguay, this initiative is made possible through the efforts of Evelin Heidel, with whom I had the pleasure of co-organizing the developer track of … More Wikiherramientas
This week, I had the pleasure of being invited by David García and Taehee Kim to give a seminar at the University of Konstanz. David and I worked together many years ago during my PhD thesis on a literature review of generative models of online discussion threads, and more recently, I collaborated with him and … More University of Konstanz Seminar
Two weeks ago I attended the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024, an annual conference focused on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in Central and Eastern European countries (also Central Asia). The event was organized by Wikimedia Community UG Türkiye and held at the very impressive Müze Gazhane (Gashouse Museum) at the heart of Kadıköy neighborhood on the … More Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024
We hosted Wiki Workshop 2024 yesterday. This is the largest Wikimedia Research event of the year, bringing together researchers who study all aspects of Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, etc.). In this edition we wanted to also bring Wikimedia developers, affiliate organizations, and volunteer editors interested in research. For that reason, after co-organizing … More Wiki Workshop 2024
Five years later I attended my first face-to-face academic conference and it was like coming home, as it was the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-24). This edition was held in Buffalo (NY, USA) and it was the first time I presented there work done at the Wikimedia Foundation Research team. In … More International Conference on Web and Social Media 2024
Pablo Aragón 