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summary of wiki- related research conversation at WikiMedia San Francisco, 2011 Dr Mark Graham Oxford Internet Institute www.geospace.co.uk www.zerogeography.net www.wikichains.org e: [email protected] t: @geoplace
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summary of wiki-related research
conversation at WikiMedia San Francisco, 2011
Dr Mark GrahamOxford Internet Institute
www.geospace.co.ukwww.zerogeography.net
www.wikichains.org
e: [email protected]: @geoplace
Spatial Palimpsests
“The Internet surrounds us like air, saturating our offices and our homes. But it’s not confined to the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph it”
- Andrew Blum 2009
“here be dragons”
Psalter World map (1265)
Map by Mark Graham, Monica Stephens, Matthew Zook
Map by Mark Graham, Monica Stephens, Matthew Zook
total number of Wikipedia articles in all languages
Eastern Canada: English and French
Spain: Spanish (Castilian) and Catalan
Israel/Palestine: Arabic and Hebrew
Bangkok
วั�ด (“temple” in Thai) “temple” in English
Wikipedia research:- The Middle East and North Africa- East Africa
Collaborators: Dr Bernie Hogan (Oxford), Richard Farmbrough (Oxford), Dr Ali Frihida (Tunis National School of Engineering, Tunisia), Dr Ilhem Allagui (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Wikipedia research:
(1) what is the geography of articles in the Middle East/North Africa/East Africa compared to the rest of the world?
Wikipedia research:
(2) do local authors in the Middle East/North Africa/East Africa comprise disproportionately fewer of the contributors to articles about that region?
Wikipedia research:
(3) are the contributions of local contributors undervalued?
Breadth from bilingual contributors?
German geo-taggedarticles in Latin America
Spanish geo-tagged articles in Latin America (good coverage even in Brazil)
Little overlap between language editions (Hecht and Gergle 2010)
Regions without many speakers of a given language are relatively under-represented in that language edition of the encyclopedia.
What role do bilinguals and foreign-language sources play?
What incentives might increase contributions from 2nd language learners & bilinguals and hence increase coverage?
- Scott Hale (scotthale.net)Oxford Internet Institute Wikipedia working group:http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=66
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