Hi all,

In my (recently finished) thesis, I looked at a lot of different properties (e.g. topic, centrality, popularity via pageviews) of "common" and "unique" concepts across multilingual Wikipedia.

It's all in Chapter 3: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bhecht/publications/bhecht_thesis_final.pdf.

A lot of these questions were addressed in the pre-Wikidata era :-)

- Brent

Brent Hecht, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
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On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:33 PM, "Klein,Max" <kleinm@oclc.org> wrote:

> That's an excellent recommendation. I will attempt to research the common properties of the least unique Wikidata items.
>
> Maximilian Klein
> Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC
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>    I think Poland may do better than average because Polish people,  out of
> national pride,  have made a special effort to be well documented in English
> Wikipedia and represent a Polish point-of-view on topics like the city of
> Gdansk.
>
>   One fascinating thing about Wikidata is that it provides access to all of
> the wonderful concepts shared in the Wikiverse,  so now sites like Ookaboo
> can collect pictures of many beautiful places that don't exist in en
> Wikipedia.
>
>  On the other hand I'm also interested in the other end of the curve,
> those elite concepts which are represented widely across the Wikipedias.
> Surely this is connected with subjective importance,  with some flavor
> towards "global" appeal,  whatever that would turn out to mean.  Any chance
> you could run a report on those?
>
>
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> According to Wikidata
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> Le 2013-06-12 22:22, Klein,Max a écrit :
>> Hello Wikidatians,
>>
>> I made a few visualizations of the distributions of language links
>> in Wikidata Items. You can also use these stats to see which Items
>> represent wikipedia articles which are unique to a language and
>> compare the uniquenesses of all languages. Also I investigate all the
>> items with just two language links, to look at Wikipedia "pairs"
>>
>> See the full analysis:
>> http://notconfusing.com/the-most-unique-wikipedias-according-to-wikidata/
>> [1]
>
> Interesting! Could you also create that kind of visualisations by
> topics : how much uniqueness come from biographies of local football
> people, compared with history events or abstract concepts ?
>
> Also, in a completly unrelated topic, you may explain me in private
> what you mean with "Create a communal house to live in" which is in your
> public todo list, it sounds interesting. :P
>
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