Between June 2025 and March 2026, Wikimedia Ukraine ran a project aimed at connecting Ukrainian researchers studying Wikipedia and related projects – with each other, with the Ukrainian Wikimedia community, and with the international Wikimedia research community. We’ve already written about the project’s centerpiece : a one-day conference in Kyiv on November 15, 2025. This post steps back to describe the wider effort the conference was part of. Wikipedia is, among other things, a fascinating research subject. Ukrainian scholars – across both STEM and the humanities – study it from many angles, but before this project there was no organized space for them to meet, share work, or connect with the Wikimedia movement. Creating that space was the project’s main goal, made possible by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation through the Wikimedia Research Fund.…