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
Brent Hecht
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
CollabLab: The Collaborative Technology Laboratory
Northwestern University
w:http://www.brenthecht.com <http://www.brenthecht.com/>
e:brent@u.northwestern.edu <mailto:brent@u.northwestern.edu>