Wikipedia's founders could not have dreamed they were creating the most important laboratory for social scientific and computing research in history but that is exactly what happened. Hill and Shaw take account of Wikipedia's enormous effect on academic scholarship
@article{arxiv.2601.17998,
title = {The Most Important Laboratory for Social Scientific and Computing Research in History},
author = {Benjamin Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.17998},
year = {2026}
}
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Published in Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, 2020, Edited by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner. The MIT Press. ISBN electronic: 9780262360593