On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:06:17AM +1000, Kerry Raymond wrote: > There has been an Hungarian research project into identifying controversial > articles in Wikipedia, based on the history of reversions and edit wars. > They have a website: > > http://wwm.phy.bme.hu/ > > with their datasets, programs, papers, etc. But the bit you are probably > most itching to see "the top 100 controversial articles in English" (ranked > from most controversial down) is: > > http://wwm.phy.bme.hu/Top100/top100_en_wiki.txt > > with good ol' "George W. Bush" heading up the list.
Interesting also that John Howard seems to be the only Australian entry. Brian. > If you want to know more about the methodology or see the top 10 across 10 > languages (article titles translating in English for your viewing pleasure > where a corresponding English article is available to provide a translated > title), you can access the PDF for the paper via: > > > > http://ssrn.com/abstract=2269392 > > > > There is also this nifty real-time visualisation you can view (and play > with) which enables you understand the relative controversial nature across > up to 4 languages. It seems "Jesus" and "Homeopathy" are the most > controversial across English, French, German and Spanish, while "George W > Bush" is as controversial for English-speakers as "Falkland Islands" is for > Spanish speakers and "Croatia" is for German speakers - the French meanwhile > are fighting over the untranslatable "Segolene Royal" (for which no > corresponding article exists on en.WP -- can any French speaker assist with > the translation?). > > > > http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~aspoerri/searchCrystal/searchCrystal_editWars_A > LL.html > > > > which is mentioned in the paper above but does not appear to be linked from > the website. > > > > There is a "Tour" link in the top left hand corner if you want to know how > to drive the visualisation. It looks like hours of fun! > > > > Kerry > > > > > > > > > -- Brian Salter-Duke bd...@wikimedia.org.au Active on English Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki, Wikiversity, and others. [[User:Bduke]] is single user account with en:Wikipedia main account. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
