Multilingual historical narratives on Wikipedia
GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1411
Abstract: Portrayals of history are never complete, and each description inherently exhibits a specific view-
point and emphasis. In this work, we automatically identified such differences by computing time-
lines and detecting temporal focal points of written history across languages on Wikipedia. In
particular, we studied articles related to the history of all UN member states and compared them in
30 language editions. We developed a computational approach that allows to identify focal points
quantitatively, and found that Wikipedia narratives about national histories (i) are skewed towards
more recen ... more Availability: Free access (without registration)
License: CC BY-NC 4.0: Namensnennung– Nicht kommerziell (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.de)
Subject area: Social History, Historical Social Research | Interdisciplinary and Applied Fields of the Social Sciences | Humanities | History | Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature | Sociology of Knowledge | Media Contents, Content Analysis
Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 2016-07;2016-07
Universe: Main text of Wikipedia articles on history of 193 UN memberstates (and their outlinks) in 30 language editions, collected in July 2016
Sampling Procedure: Live-crawling of Wikipedia pages
Mode of Data Collection: Content Analysis
Bibliographic information
Primärforschende, Institution: Samoilenko, Anna; GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Publication year: 2017
DOI: 10.7802/1411
Study number: SDN-10.7802-1411
Contributor, Institution, Role: Strohmaier, Markus;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau;Supervisor | Weller, Katrin;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences;Project Member | Zens, Maria;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences;Project Member | Lemmerich, Florian;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Univers ... more Publisher: GESIS, Cologne
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1411
Reference publications
Publications: Samoilenko, Anna and Lemmerich, Florian, and Zens, Maria and Weller, Katrin and Strohmaier, Markus "Analysing Timelines of National Histories across Wikipedia Editions: A Comparative Computational Approach" to appear in the ICWSM'17 volume as a full paper.;
