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!

Hi Brent. How many articles exist in other Wikipedias and don't have an English translation at English Wikipedia? Any estimate? 2012/3/31 Brent Hecht &lt;brent(a)u.northwestern.edu <mailto:brent@u.northwestern.edu>> 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> _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l