Wikimedia Feature Deployments and MediaWiki Development

This project and project page are under active development.

Project Team

• Darren Gergle (PI), Northwestern University
• Aaron Shaw (co-PI), Northwestern University
• Matt Gaughan (PhD student), Northwestern University (gaughan@u.northwestern.edu)

Presentations

• Gaughan, M., Shaw, A., Gergle, D. ``Theorizing the Relationship Between Wikimedia Feature Deployments and MediaWiki Software Engineering. WikiWorkshop 2025. May 21-22, 2025. Virtual. Extended Abstract

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the members of the Wikimedia and MediaWiki communities who have made their records available to the public. We gratefully acknowledge the support of a grant from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, fiscally supported by Aspiration. This work was conducted using the Hyak supercomputer at the University of Washington as well as research computing resources at Northwestern University.

Relevant Links

• Meta-Wiki page
• DIIF page