Hello Wikidata Folks,
My name is Brent Hecht, and I've done a great deal of
research on the differences and similarities between the
language editions. I was really excited to hear about
the Wikidata project moving forward, and I think some of
my research might be of assistance. I'd enjoy being able
to help the community make this important transition.
In particular, my experience navigating interlanguage
link conflicts might be able to help in Phase 1. Please
let me know if there's anything I can do over the short
term or long term!
Some of my relevant papers:
[1] Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M.,
Horn, M. and Gergle, D. 2012. Omnipedia: Bridging the
Wikipedia Language Gap. CHI ’12: 30th International
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2012).
[2] Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. 2010. The Tower of Babel
Meets Web 2.0: User-Generated Content and Its
Applications in a Multilingual Context. CHI ’10: 28th
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (Atlanta, GA, 2010), 291–300.
[3] Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. 2009. Measuring
Self-Focus Bias in Community-Maintained Knowledge
Repositories. Communities and Technologies 2009: 4th
International Conference on Communities and Technologies
(State College, PA, 2009), 11–19.
- Brent