Would it be possible to run a search on the full text of Wikipedias for
lines that start and end with "==", "===", "====", and lines that start
with ";", then make a list of those strings, and count the number of times
that each title appears in the list?

Pine
On Jul 13, 2015 10:29 AM, "Jonathan Morgan" <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Cross-posting this request to wiki-research-l. Anyone have data on
> frequently used section titles in articles (any language), or know of
> datasets/publications that examined this?
>
> I'm not aware of any off the top of my head, Amir.
>
> - Jonathan
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>
> Date: Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] statistics about frequent section titles
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Did anybody ever try to collect statistics about frequent section titles in
> Wikimedia projects?
>
> For Wikipedia, for example, titles such as "Biography", "Early life",
> "Bibliography", "External links", "References", "History", etc., appear in
> a lot of articles, and their counterparts appear in a lot of languages.
>
> There are probably similar things in Wikivoyage, Wiktionary and possibly
> other projects.
>
> Did anybody ever try to collect statistics of the most frequent section
> titles in each language and project?
>
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