I wonder if anybody has studied the use of diacritics on Wikipedia?
It is my experience that they are commonly used, but some editors are challenging that (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_...). I wonder if we have any data on that, or if somebody could create and run some form of query on the database (as I don't code, this is unfortunately beyond my capabilities).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_titles_without_diacriti...
I think this category is actually a list of redirect, from the diacritic-less spellings to the diacriticed actual articles. There's over 309 K redirects. Not sure though.
Nick
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Piotr Konieczny pik1@pitt.edu wrote:
I wonder if anybody has studied the use of diacritics on Wikipedia?
It is my experience that they are commonly used, but some editors are challenging that ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_... ). I wonder if we have any data on that, or if somebody could create and run some form of query on the database (as I don't code, this is unfortunately beyond my capabilities).
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Nicholas Moreau wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_titles_without_diacriti...
I think this category is actually a list of redirect, from the diacritic-less spellings to the diacriticed actual articles. There's over 309 K redirects. Not sure though.
An interesting category, but seems occasionally misused (for example, in (ISC)2 somebody confused superscript with a diacritic). This category, however, indeed shows redirects from articles without a diacritic to those with a diacritic ("The pages in this category are redirects to articles whose titles have diacritical marks.") Thanks for the find!
The one that shows redirects for titles with a diacritic to one without a diacritic would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_titles_with_diacritics ("Category:Redirects from titles with diacritics") This one has about 6,5k articles.
Thanks for the categories, as imperfect as they are they are nonetheless quite useful to know about, and clearly show that Wikipedia does use diacritics much more often than not.
Piotr Konieczny, 22/06/2011 03:49:
Nicholas Moreau wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_titles_without_diacriti...
I think this category is actually a list of redirect, from the diacritic-less spellings to the diacriticed actual articles. There's over 309 K redirects. Not sure though.
An interesting category, but seems occasionally misused (for example, in (ISC)2 somebody confused superscript with a diacritic). This category, however, indeed shows redirects from articles without a diacritic to those with a diacritic ("The pages in this category are redirects to articles whose titles have diacritical marks.") Thanks for the find!
The one that shows redirects for titles with a diacritic to one without a diacritic would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_titles_with_diacritics ("Category:Redirects from titles with diacritics") This one has about 6,5k articles.
Thanks for the categories, as imperfect as they are they are nonetheless quite useful to know about, and clearly show that Wikipedia does use diacritics much more often than not.
There's plenty of redirects with diacritics, although some Wikipedia editions have way more than others (you can just look at the all-Wikipedias comparison table for the number of redirects on stats.wikimedia.org to notice this); more interesting would be to measure how often they're visited, collating data from the page view stats.
Nemo
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