Federico, This is a great initiative, by the way. Good luck with this aspect of your project -- I hope that it flourishes and that the quality of language-translation improves to make this an essential reference when reading Wikipedia (particularly on controversial topics).
A next step would be to identify topics which seem to be given dramatically different treatment on different projects -- with little to no overlap in sources, or a significant difference in the ratio of positive to negative adjectives, or some metric of volatility of content within any of those single languages. Sam. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:29 PM, fox <fo...@anche.no> wrote: > Hi all! > As part of our investigation of the social side of Wikipedia in SoNet > group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento - Italy), Paolo Massa and I > created Manypedia. > > http://manypedia.com/ > > On Manypedia, you compare Linguistic Points Of View (LPOV) of different > language Wikipedias. For example (but this is just one of the many > possible comparisons), are you wondering if the community of editors in > the English, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias are crystallizing different > histories of the Gaza War? Now you can check “Gaza War” page from > English and Arabic Wikipedia (both translated into English) or from > Hebrew Wikipedia (translated into English). > Manypedia, by using the Google Translate API, automatically translates > the compared page in a language you don’t know into the language you > know. And this is not limited to English as first language. For example > you can search a page in the Italian Wikipedia (or in 56 languages > Wikipedias) and compare it with the same page from the French Wikipedia > but translated into Italian. In this way you can check the differences > of the page from another language Wikipedia even if you don’t know that > language. > > We hope that this project will sound interesting to you and maybe you > could help us to make it better. We're really interested in any kind of > feedback! Please write us! > > p.s.: If you're facebook addicted please like Manypedia ;) > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manypedia/202808583098332 > > > Federico Scrinzi > > -- > f. > > "I didn't try, I succeeded" > (Dr. Sheldon Cooper, PhD) > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
