Morten Wang, 18/12/20 17:23:
One thing I've noticed is that all the papers I'm referencing focus on the English Wikipedia. When it comes to studies of other language editions, or across multiple ones, I've struggled to come up with a key paper to point to.
For this I usually reference Felipe Ortega's dissertation of 2009, "Wikipedia: A Quantitative Analysis". All the basic trends were there to see already, and at the time it was the only cross-language study AFAIK (apart from Erik Zachte's statistics). https://burjcdigital.urjc.es/handle/10115/11239
It's also linked from: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Resources
Hopefully someone else chimes in and fills that hole, as it's important to recognize that "Wikipedia" doesn't equal the English one.
Indeed.
Federico