Hello Houcemeddine and Amy, Thank you for your kind message Houcemeddine. It is my passion to study the cultural differences in Wikipedia and I do it for a long time.
In regards to Wikipedia topical coverage, as far as I know, the last studies were: Farina, J., Tasso, R., & Laniado, D. (2011). Automatically assigning Wikipedia articles to macrocategories. Presented at the WikiSym '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Kittur, A., Chi, E. H., & Suh, B. (2009). What's in Wikipedia?: mapping topics and conflict using socially annotated category structure (pp. 1509–1512). Presented at the CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. http://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518930 They both use the category graph structure in order to assign articles to one ore more main categories (Culture and the arts, people and self, geography and places, etc.). One of the problems of these methods is that each Wikipedia language edition has a different categorization structure and may not share the top categories. Then, it is difficult to establish good comparisons. However, as an estimation it works fine. They are not difficult to implement. If you want, I can share my code, which was based on Kittur's but with a more extensive set of top categories. I did run it for 40 languages and the results were quite interesting and somehow expected (Japanese have a bigger share of articles dedicated to technology, Hebrew to religion,...). I think that nowadays it would make sense to use the Wikidata properties in order to perform a topical coverage analysis (I am thinking about it). But this would have some other drawbacks too, as some small language items are not as developed as others. Best regards, Marc Miquel El ds., 24 de març 2018 a les 13:35, abdelwaheb turki (< turkiabdelwa...@hotmail.fr>) va escriure: > Dear Ms., > I thank you for your answer. I propose you to ask Wikipedia Content gap > researchers about that. I recommend Mr. Marc Miquel who studied cultural > content gap across different Wikipedias. I saw his research in WikiIndaba > 2018. His research is excellent and absolutely well developed and I was > proud as a Programme Committee member to meet him in that conference. > Yours Sincerely, > Houcemeddine Turki > ________________________________ > De : Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> de la > part de wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org < > wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Envoyé : samedi 24 mars 2018 13:00 > À : wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Objet : Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 12 > > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. research on topic coverage? (Bruckman, Amy S) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:27:34 +0000 > From: "Bruckman, Amy S" <a...@cc.gatech.edu> > To: "Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org" > <Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] research on topic coverage? > Message-ID: <fc8de639-dacc-4f42-b648-218ec6368...@gatech.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Hi everyone! > > I was just re-reading Halavais & Lackaff’s 2008 paper on topic coverage in > the English Wikipedia. > Has anyone redone or extended that analysis more recently? > Also, has anyone mapped comparative topic coverage for different languages? > > Thanks for your help! > > — Amy > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 12 > ************************************************ > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
