The GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest German infrastructure institute for the

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. It is headquartered in Mannheim, with a location in

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. 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 the Leibniz Association and receives federal and state funding.

History

Established in 1986 as German Social Science Infrastructure Services (), GESIS originally consisted of the three independent institutes: * Social Science Information Centre (, IZ) in Bonn, * Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (, ZA) in Cologne, and * Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (, 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

WikiWho, developed by Fabian Flöck and Maribel Acosta and hosted by GESIS, "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". ''WhoColor'' and ''whoVIS'' are in development. Researchers developing and using ''WikiWho'', also investigated the Gamergate (harassment campaign). In 2021, Fabian Flöck planned to leave GESIS and shut down WikiWho sometime in 2022, however, a

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is working to migrate the infrastructure.

, Community Tech Team has released ''Who Wrote That?'', a browser extension, for Mozilla Firefox and Chromium-based browsers using ''WikiWho''. ''Contropedia'' is a related "platform for the real-time analysis and visualization of such controversies in Wikipedia".

References

External links

GESIS

SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository

DBK – GESIS data catalogue

ZACAT – GESIS online data portal

HISTAT – Database Historical Time Series

''methods - data - analyses'' (''mda'')

''Social Indicators Information Service'' (''ISI'')
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