Cultural Anthropology Through the Lens of Wikipedia: Historical Leader Networks, Gender Bias, and News-Based Sentiment

Cultural Anthropology Through the Lens of Wikipedia: Historical Leader Networks, Gender Bias, and News-Based Sentiment - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Peter A. Gloor, João Marcos, Patrick de Boer, Hauke Fuehres, Wei Lo and Keiichi Nemoto.

Overview

In this paper authors study the differences in historical World View between Western and Eastern cultures, represented through the English, the Chinese, Japanese, and German Wikipedia. In particular, authors analyze the historical networks of the World's leaders since the beginning of written history, comparing them in the different Wikipedias and assessing cultural chauvinism. Authors also identify the most influential female leaders of all times in the English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese Wikipedia. As an additional lens into the soul of a culture authors compare top terms, sentiment, emotionality, and complexity of the English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German Wikinews.