Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

2013-07-23 Thread Balázs Viczián
When I started editing in 2006 it was already the norm; ever since people are encouraging each other to place their questions about a given article rather on the village pump or a project page, than on the actual article's talk page, reasoning that there is larger trafficwhat generates even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

2013-07-23 Thread Taha Yasseri
On a different track and back to Tilman's concern, we managed to get the following sentence published in the Washington Post: Among the 3.2 million articles Yasseri’s group studied last year, fewer than 100 appeared to be on a definite trajectory toward perpetual disagreement. That’s an excellent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

2013-07-22 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
I was interviewed a few days ago from a Chilean newspaper because of this paper. For those interested that can read Spanish here is the full article: http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2013/07/659-533645-9-estudio-dice-que-chile-es-el-articulo-de-wikipedia-mas-editado-en-espanol.shtml I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

2013-07-22 Thread Taha Yasseri
Anders, I really like your idea on universal articles. given the fact that translation and communication cross languages is not a very task these days any more. By the way, in a blog post, I have release some more data on languages like Japanese, Chinese, and Portugies, in case anyone's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

2013-07-22 Thread Anders Wennersten
I see the difference on the different version as most interesting and to have some insight into Arabic version, I have not had before On a small version like sv:wp we are very used to steal with pride content from other versions, primary en:wp but also de:wp and others and we do this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

2013-07-22 Thread Balázs Viczián
As a Hungarian, it is really interesting to read something specific about the Hungarian Wikipedia :) I read somewhere (correct me if I'm wrong) that you found little to no discussions on article talk pages on the Hungarian Wikipedia, indicating that users barely discuss the content (or anything

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

2013-07-22 Thread Taha Yasseri
That's very interesting to know. Thanks for telling me. We were quite surprised by seeing very spars talk pages in Hungarian Wiki. I'm sure you know better than me that article talk pages are for different purposes that user talks and the village pump. However that's interesting that Hungarian