On Jan 1, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Mike Palij wrote: > (believe > it or not, January 1 commemorates the circumcision of Jesus -- ask > your Lutheran and Anglican friends about it)
I celebrate the date of my own circumcision by wearing diapers with a lit "sparkler" sticking out the top. I just read a new book chapter that reported that the Wikipedia article on male circumcision is one of the 10 most-controversial articles in the English-language edition (Yasseri, Spoerri, Graham, & Kertész, in press; http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1305/1305.5566.pdf). Here is the top-10 list for the English-language version: 1. George W. Bush 2. Anarchism 3. Muhammad 4. List of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Employees 5. Global Warming 6. Circumcision 7. United States 8. Jesus 9. Race & Intelligence 10. Christianity Who would have imagined that the article about "World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Employees" would be more controversial than the ones on "Global Warming" and "Race & Intelligence"? I guess I need to learn more about pro wrestling .... Figure 3 in the chapter is particularly interesting: it is a "Cluster View of the overlap structure of the most contested Wikipedia pages in English, German, French and Spanish." Best, Jeff REFERENCE Yasseri T., Spoerri A., Graham M., & Kertész J. (in press). The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis. In Fichman P., Hara N., (Eds), Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration. Scarecrow Press. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1305/1305.5566.pdf Abstract We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to “edit wars” identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia. After a brief review of the related work we describe the methods developed to locate, measure, and categorize the controversial topics in the different languages. Visualizations of the degree of overlap between the top 100 lists of most controversial articles in different languages and the content related to geographical locations will be presented. We discuss what the presented analysis and visualizations can tell us about the multicultural aspects of Wikipedia and practices of peer-production. Our results indicate that Wikipedia is more than just an encyclopaedia; it is also a window into convergent and divergent social-spatial priorities, interests and preferences. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32346 or send a blank email to leave-32346-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
