Wikimedia Fellowships/Fellows

Read more about the work of past fellows in the Fellowship News.

Completed Fellowships

Fellow(s)	Project(s)	Sponsor(s)	Length	Announcement
2010/2011 Fellows
Victoria Doronina and Maryana Pinchuk	History of the Russian Wikipedia	Zack Exley	8 weeks	2010-09-30
Steven Walling	Quantitative and qualitative research into Wikimedia communities, centered on the Contribution Taxonomy Project, as well as organizing and outreach such as for Wikipedia's 10th anniversary	Zack Exley	One year	2010-09-15
Lennart Guldbrandsson	Bookshelf Project and Account Creation Improvement Project	Frank Schulenburg	6 months	2011-01-07
Maryana Pinchuk	"Wiki-histories" summer fellowship, a joint program with volunteers and grad students, who will produce a series of narrative histories of Wikimedia projects	Zack Exley	One year	2011-03-01
Achal Prabhala	Field research in India and South Africa into the state of published and unpublished source material for use in verifying Wikimedia content	Barry Newstead and Zack Exley	5 months	2011-01-12
R. Stuart Geiger, Aaron Halfaker, Fabian Kaelin, Melanie Kill, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Yusuke Matsubara, Jonathan Morgan and Shawn Walker	Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011, studying longterm participation trends in Wikipedia	Zack Exley	3 months	2011-06-01
Fabian Kaelin	Study of Portuguese Wikipedia Editor Trends	Siko Bouterse	2 months	2011-06-01
Liam Wyatt	Global GLAM outreach, building enthusiasm, awareness, and working models for cultural institutions to partner with Wikipedians in producing open content for the public. Piloting and scaling the Wikipedian in Residence program and GLAMCamp gatherings to forward the GLAM movement.	Zack Exley and Siko Bouterse	One year	2011-01-19
Yusuke Matsubara	RevDiffSearch and WikiHadoop Analytics projects	Diederik van Liere	7 months	2011-06-01
James Alexander	Business analysis for the 2011 Fundraiser, Wiki Guides pilot project to help new editors, Reader Relations assistance	Philippe Beaudette	One year	2011-03-22
R. Stuart Geiger	Qualitative and quantitative analysis of User Template Experiments and other community research statistics related to editor retention.	Siko Bouterse	6 months	2011-06-01
Jon Harald Søby	Wikimedia Translations improvement project	Siko Bouterse	One year	2011-09-27
2012/2013 Fellows
Jonathan Morgan	Wikipedia Teahouse, Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011	Siko Bouterse	One year	Announcing the Community Department Summer of Research
Peter Coombe	Help pages redesign project	Siko Bouterse	6 months	Announcing Community Fellow Peter Coombe
Steven Zhang	Dispute Resolution Improvements	Siko Bouterse	8 months	Announcing Community Fellows Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang
Tanvir Rahman	Small Wiki Editor Engagement Project	Siko Bouterse	8 months	Announcing Community Fellows Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang
Sarah Stierch	Gender gap projects, including WikiWomen's Collaborative, and the Wikipedia Teahouse	Siko Bouterse	1 year	Announcing Community Fellow Sarah Stierch