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