Federico,
This is a great initiative, by the way. Good luck with this aspect of
your project -- I hope that it flourishes and that the quality of
language-translation improves to make this an essential reference when
reading Wikipedia (particularly on controversial topics).
A next step would be to identify topics which seem to be given
dramatically different treatment on different projects -- with little
to no overlap in sources, or a significant difference in the ratio of
positive to negative adjectives, or some metric of volatility of
content within any of those single languages.
Sam.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:29 PM, fox <fox91(a)anche.no> wrote:
Hi all!
As part of our investigation of the social side of Wikipedia in SoNet
group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento - Italy), Paolo Massa and I
created Manypedia.
http://manypedia.com/
On Manypedia, you compare Linguistic Points Of View (LPOV) of different
language Wikipedias. For example (but this is just one of the many
possible comparisons), are you wondering if the community of editors in
the English, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias are crystallizing different
histories of the Gaza War? Now you can check “Gaza War” page from
English and Arabic Wikipedia (both translated into English) or from
Hebrew Wikipedia (translated into English).
Manypedia, by using the Google Translate API, automatically translates
the compared page in a language you don’t know into the language you
know. And this is not limited to English as first language. For example
you can search a page in the Italian Wikipedia (or in 56 languages
Wikipedias) and compare it with the same page from the French Wikipedia
but translated into Italian. In this way you can check the differences
of the page from another language Wikipedia even if you don’t know that
language.
We hope that this project will sound interesting to you and maybe you
could help us to make it better. We're really interested in any kind of
feedback! Please write us!
p.s.: If you're facebook addicted please like Manypedia ;)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manypedia/202808583098332
Federico Scrinzi
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