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The core team prepares Futures Lab's conversations based on relevant resources from the Wikimedia Movement and beyond, including metrics, reports and analyses. You can find them all below.

Data on Global Trends

Key Metrics

• Monthly Movement Insights report
• Wikistats: Overall Movement Trends

Contributors

• Community Insights Report
• Administrator Research report
• Mobile Web Editing User Journey Analysis
• Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition
• Investigating the 2021–present registration decline, Neil Shah-Quinn, January 2025

Readers

• Changing Trends in Traffic Data
• Readers Survey 2024
• Reader Foundational Research Oct 2025

AI

• Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia’s humans first
• How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Analyses of External Trends

Wikimedia Foundation

• What does the world need from Wikimedia now?
• How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Affiliates

• Wikimedia Australia - areas of focus going forward
• Wikimedia Deutschland - Documentation from Wikimedia Future Congress 2024

Communities

• Wikipedia at 25: A wake-up call, from User:Schiste

Beyond the Wikiverse

• The New Primitive, Bettina Warburg (expert who spoke at the Futures Lab 2026 in Frankfurt)
• How to keep the Internet human, Sarah Pearson (expert who spoke at the Futures Lab 2026 in Frankfurt)
• Open Future Foundation on AI and the Commons