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Popular Programming Languages 2025/2026 (video)

Mar

10

2026

Using open data collected over the past 12 months (March 2025 – February 2026), the most popular programming languages were identified. Some results of this analysis, covering more than 1,000 languages, are presented in this article and the accompanying video.

The Boundaries of Fantasy in Wikipedia: Data Analysis Reveals Challenges in Classification

Mar

7

2026

New research examines how the structure of Wikipedia can help automatically identify content related to science fiction and fantasy. The results show that although Wikipedia contains enormous amounts of machine-readable data, interpreting these signals is not straightforward.

Grokipedia vs Wikipedia: Quantitative Analysis (video)

Nov

11

2025

Recently, Grokipedia v0.1 was released — an AI-based knowledge system inspired by Wikipedia. But how complete is it? And what does its topic coverage look like compared to Wikipedia? Moreover, how does it differ across the many language editions of the world’s largest encyclopedia?

Wikimania 2025: Climate Change Knowledge on Wikipedia (video)

Aug

12

2025

During the Wikimania 2025 conference, the results of a scientific study were presented, focusing on a cross-language comparative analysis of Wikipedia articles on climate change. Using open datasets made it possible to examine article quality and compare their popularity across languages. For instance, an analysis of over one billion links between Wikipedia articles helped identify ...

Wiki Workshop 2025: Citation Index and Synthetic Quality Measure for Wikipedia (video)

Jun

28

2025

At the Wiki Workshop 2025, the results of a scientific study were presented in which a comprehensive analysis of Wikipedia articles was conducted across 55 language editions and 18 thematic categories. The study introduced an original approach combining a citation index with a synthetic quality measure for articles.

Semantic mapping of disinformation: identifying fake news topics

Nov

9

2024

The scientific article entitled “Sentence Embeddings and Semantic Entity Extraction for Identification of Topics of Short Fact-Checked Claims” has been published in open access. The paper describes an approach to assigning topics to claims verified by fact-checking agencies.

Analysis of cryptocurrency exchanges using open data

Sep

3

2024

The work of our scientists on the analysis of digital currency exchanges has been published on the Springer website. As part of the research, models for predicting the success and bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchanges were developed, based on financial data and information collected from open Internet sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. The aim of ...

Measuring Americanization across the world using Wikidata and Wikipedia (video)

Aug

26

2024

During the Wikimania 2024 conference, the results of scientific research on measuring Americanization in various regions of the world based on open data from Wikipedia and Wikidata were presented. The conducted research reveals differences in interest in American topics depending on the level of development of countries, offering a new perspective on global cultural dominance. ...

Automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of its important information sources on various topics

Mar

9

2024

An open scientific seminar of the Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics on automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of important sources of its information on various topics was held at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. During the seminar, the methods and tools used to analyze and evaluate content ...

Quantifying Americanization: A comparative analysis of information in Wikipedia

Jan

13

2024

The research paper entitled “Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias” was published in the Social Science Computer Review journal. This is the first quantitative study that confirms various theories about Americanization and related phenomena often discussed in scientific literature.