Wikipedia:Research

Scholarly research of Wikipedia is useful for understanding the encyclopedia's content, readers, editors, history, current state, and future. These results also yield important knowledge applicable to other open content communities. In addition to driving scholarly knowledge of such systems, this work can also give results that can improve Wikipedia itself. Much valuable research cannot be done without Wikipedia community members who volunteer to participate in studies.

However please be aware of the WP:NOTLAB policy.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Research is the hub for research on the English Wikipedia. Research that has previously been done can be found at meta:Research and Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia.