Initiatives

  1. Powered by People

    Understanding the motivations, challenges, and strategies of the contributors to Wikimedia Projects.

  2. Online Social Behavior      

    Examining the prosocial and disruptive dimensions of online culture - on and off-wiki.

  3. Machine Augmentation      

    Exploring machine-in-the-loop technologies to enable knowledge equity at scale.

  4. Sentiment & Perception      

    Understanding how our readers and contributors perceive and engage with our tools and processes.

  5. Research & Development

    Exploring longer horizon vision through design-lead experiments and collaborations with third party partners.

  6. Numeric Exploration
         

    Understanding reader, editor and wiki-specific phenomena through quantitative analysis.