Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-06-19/Recent research

For clarity's sake, the abstract for Sihame Assbague’s paper (“Wikipedia, or the discreet neutralisation of antiracism”, ) does not appear at the paywalled link on Cairn.info, but I was sent a copy of the paper, from which my translation of the abstract appears above. The original French reads:

— OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 13:00, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * About the hoax article creation analysis based on outgoing links: Is it not possible that the hoax creators might themselves have contributed to pageviews that they are linking to (sock farms et al.)? I think this should have been matched with off-wiki interest spikes on those links as well to see if further internet-wide virality is influencing their creation. Gotitbro (talk) 14:19, 29 June 2023 (UTC)