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<p class="page__tagline">We are using qualitative and quantitative methods to learn why people read Wikipedia.</p>
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<p>Every second 6,000 people view Wikipedia pages. In this research, we aim to understand their motivations and needs.</p>
<p>To begin answering our question, we ran a series of surveys on English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedias and built a taxonomy of Wikipedia readers based on their motivation, the depth of their information needs, and their prior familiarity with the topic read. Next, we ran a large-scale survey in English Wikipedia and studied the prevalence of readers' use cases using this taxonomy.</p>
<p>We then combined the results of the survey with Wikipedia’s HTTP webrequest logs to create a deeper characterization of Wikipedia's readers. You can learn more about the result of this study by reading <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379">our full paper</a> or listening to one of <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour#Past">our presentations</a>.</p>
<p>More recently, we ran another survey using the original taxonomy we built—this time in 14 Wikipedia languages. We wanted to test the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages">robustness of the results</a> of the first study and to learn about Wikipedia readers across a broader spectrum of languages. More than 210,000 responses were submitted, and we are now analyzing the results. </p>
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<span class="update__card--desc">We published a paper with the research methodology and the resulting taxonomy of use cases, and the associated behavioral patterns, of readers of English Wikipedia.</span>
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<p><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)">Leila Zia</a>, <a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/">Robert West</a></p>
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<p>Florian Lemmerich (GESIS), Jure Leskovec (Stanford University), Philipp Singer (GESIS), Markus Strohmaier (GESIS), Ellery Wulczyn (Wikimedia Foundation)</p>
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<li>Philipp Singer, Florian Lemmerich, Robert West</>, Leila Zia</>, Ellery Wulczyn</>, Markus Strohmaier, and Jure Leskovec. 2017. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379">Why We Read Wikipedia</a>. In <em>Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '17)</em>. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, 1591-1600. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3038912.3052716">https://doi.org/10.1145/3038912.3052716</a></li>
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