An Approach for Using Wikipedia to Measure the Flow of Trends Across Countries
Authors | Ramine Tinati Thanassis Tiropanis Leslie Carr |
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Publication date | 2013 |
DOI | 10.1145/2487788.2488177 |
Links | Original |
An Approach for Using Wikipedia to Measure the Flow of Trends Across Countries - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis and Leslie Carr.
Overview
Wikipedia has grown to become the most successful online encyclopedia on the Web, containing over 24 million articles, offered in over 240 languages. In just over 10 years Wikipedia has transformed from being just an encyclopedia of knowledge, to a wealth of facts and information, from articles discussing trivia, political issues, geographies and demographics, to popular culture, news articles, and social events. In this paper authors explore the use of Wikipedia for identifying the flow of information and trends across the world. Authors start with the hypothesis that, given that Wikipedia is a resource that is globally available in different languages across countries, access to its articles could be a reflection human activity. To explore this hypothesis authors try to establish metrics on the use of Wikipedia in order to identify potential trends and to establish whether or how those trends flow from one county to another. Authors subsequently compare the outcome of this analysis to that of more established methods that are based on online social media or traditional media. Authors explore this hypothesis by applying approach to a subset of Wikipedia articles and also a specific worldwide social phenomenon that occurred during 2012; authors investigate whether access to relevant Wikipedia articles correlates to the viral success of the South Korean pop song, "Gangnam Style" and the associated artist "PSY" as evidenced by traditional and online social media. Authors analysis demonstrates that Wikipedia can indeed provide a useful measure for detecting social trends and events, and in the case that authors studied; it could have been possible to identify the specific trend quicker in comparison to other established trend identification services such as Google Trends.
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Tinati, Ramine; Tiropanis, Thanassis; Carr, Leslie. (2013). "[[An Approach for Using Wikipedia to Measure the Flow of Trends Across Countries]]".DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488177.
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Tinati, Ramine; Tiropanis, Thanassis; Carr, Leslie. (2013). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/An_Approach_for_Using_Wikipedia_to_Measure_the_Flow_of_Trends_Across_Countries">An Approach for Using Wikipedia to Measure the Flow of Trends Across Countries</a>".DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488177.
