49°29′09″N8°27′46″E / 49.4857°N 8.4629°E /49.4857; 8.4629TheGESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest German infrastructure institute for thesocial sciences. It is headquartered inMannheim, with a location inCologne. With basic research-based services and consulting covering all levels of the scientific process, GESIS supports researchers in the social sciences. As of 2017, the president of GESIS is Christof Wolf.
GESIS is part of theLeibniz Association and receives federal and state funding.
Established in 1986 as German Social Science Infrastructure Services (Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen), GESIS originally consisted of the three independent institutes:
Social Science Information Centre (InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften, IZ) in Bonn,
Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, ZA) in Cologne, and
Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, ZUMA) in Mannheim.
In 2007, the three GESIS institutes merged into one. In November 2008, GESIS added "Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences" to its name in order to emphasize its membership in the Leibniz Association.
In November 2011, GESIS Bonn and Cologne were merged into one location in Cologne.
WikiWho,[1] developed by Fabian Flöck and Maribel Acosta and hosted by GESIS,[2] "parses the complete set of all historical revisions (versions) (of Wikipedia articles in different languages) in order to find out who wrote and/or removed and/or reinserted which exact text at token level at what revision".[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]WhoColor andwhoVIS are in development.[11] Researchers developing and usingWikiWho, also investigated theGamergate (harassment campaign).[9][12][13] In 2021, Fabian Flöck planned to leave GESIS and shut down WikiWho sometime in 2022, however, aWikimedia Foundationsoftware engineer is working to migrate the infrastructure.[2][14]Wikimedia Foundation, Community Tech Team has releasedWho Wrote That?, a browser extension, forMozillaFirefox[15] andChromium-based browsers[16] usingWikiWho.[17][18][2]Contropedia is a related "platform for the real-time analysis and visualization of such controversies in Wikipedia".[19][20]
^"Contact".WikiWho. Retrieved8 October 2022.Main contact for WikiWho: Dr. Fabian Flöck, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences CSS Department; Imprint and data privacy terms: As wikiwho.net is a service by GESIS, the imprint and terms of use from GESIS.org apply here as well: German version imprint German version data protection policy English version
