I’m hardly a fan of much of the UK’s speech laws (especially regarding protest, Palestine recently), and cannot imagine what Esther Ghey has gone through. But what on earth are we doing here???

A glimmer of hope - the judge issued a warning shot towards Ofcom and the govt on protecting Wikipedia's operation in the UK. Wikimedia have focused on this in their response. We expect to find out more on Wikipedia's categorisation and obligations later this summer. This will rumble on...

Big congrats both!!!

🙏 Thank you to @wikiresearch.bsky.social and the reddit4researchers programme for the data access. I spoke more about this and other projects as part of the January Wikimedia research showcase, which you can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/gvF8p4r...

On exploratory analysis, we find:
📉 Declining activity in posts, but stable performance of Wikipedia content on Reddit
🔗 Strong correlations between Wikipedia and Reddit activity
🌍 Intriguing asymmetric patterns of cross-lingual linking, dominated by English

👷 Care has been taken to omit and anonymise any potentially personally identifiable information. Future researchers with access to the Reddit and Wikipedia APIs can enrich their analyses by pulling extra data (e.g. post content) and linking to the processed cross-platform information provided here.