 | This page in a nutshell: Please don't bite the researchers. Their work is valuable to the Wikipedia community, but like anyone else, they should be expected to not disrupt the editing process. |
Please extend understanding to researchers of Wikipedia. Their work provides an invaluable resource to Wikipedia and the community. Research of Wikipedia increases knowledge about the encyclopedia's content, readers, editors, history, current state, and future and also yield important knowledge that is applicable to other open content communities. In addition to driving scholarly knowledge of such systems, this work often yields results that benefit Wikipedia directly. Because of the benefits that research of Wikipedia provides, the Wikimedia Foundation has a long history of supporting researchers and their work in the foundation's projects. But just like any other user of Wikipedia, researchers should be expected to not disrupt the editing process.