Hi all, In my (recently finished) thesis, I looked at a lot of different properties (e.g. topic, centrality, popularity via pageviews) of "common" and "unique" concepts across multilingual Wikipedia.
It's all in Chapter 3: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bhecht/publications/bhecht_thesis_final.pdf. A lot of these questions were addressed in the pre-Wikidata era :-) - Brent Brent Hecht, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota e: [email protected] t: @bhecht w: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bhecht/ On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:33 PM, "Klein,Max" <[email protected]> wrote: > That's an excellent recommendation. I will attempt to research the common > properties of the least unique Wikidata items. > > Maximilian Klein > Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC > +17074787023 > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] on behalf of Paul A. Houle > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:57 AM > To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Visualisations of The Most Unique Wikipedias > According to Wikidata > > I think Poland may do better than average because Polish people, out of > national pride, have made a special effort to be well documented in English > Wikipedia and represent a Polish point-of-view on topics like the city of > Gdansk. > > One fascinating thing about Wikidata is that it provides access to all of > the wonderful concepts shared in the Wikiverse, so now sites like Ookaboo > can collect pictures of many beautiful places that don't exist in en > Wikipedia. > > On the other hand I'm also interested in the other end of the curve, > those elite concepts which are represented widely across the Wikipedias. > Surely this is connected with subjective importance, with some flavor > towards "global" appeal, whatever that would turn out to mean. Any chance > you could run a report on those? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mathieu Stumpf > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 4:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Visualisations of The Most Unique Wikipedias > According to Wikidata > > Le 2013-06-12 22:22, Klein,Max a écrit : >> Hello Wikidatians, >> >> I made a few visualizations of the distributions of language links >> in Wikidata Items. You can also use these stats to see which Items >> represent wikipedia articles which are unique to a language and >> compare the uniquenesses of all languages. Also I investigate all the >> items with just two language links, to look at Wikipedia "pairs" >> >> See the full analysis: >> http://notconfusing.com/the-most-unique-wikipedias-according-to-wikidata/ >> [1] > > Interesting! Could you also create that kind of visualisations by > topics : how much uniqueness come from biographies of local football > people, compared with history events or abstract concepts ? > > Also, in a completly unrelated topic, you may explain me in private > what you mean with "Create a communal house to live in" which is in your > public todo list, it sounds interesting. :P > > > -- > Association Culture-Libre > http://www.culture-libre.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
