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What is Trending on Wikipedia? Capturing Trends and Language Biases Across Wikipedia Editions

Miz, Volodymyr  
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Hanna, Joëlle
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Aspert, Nicolas  
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April 20, 2020
Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020
The Web Conference 2020

In this work, we propose an automatic evaluation and comparison of the browsing behavior of Wikipedia readers that can be applied to any language editions of Wikipedia. As an example, we focus on English, French, and Russian languages during the last four months of 2018. The proposed method has three steps. Firstly, it extracts the most trending articles over a chosen period of time. Secondly, it performs a semi-supervised topic extraction and thirdly, it compares topics across languages. The automated processing works with the data that combines Wikipedia's graph of hyperlinks, pageview statistics and summaries of the pages. The results show that people share a common interest and curiosity for entertainment, e.g. movies, music, sports independently of their language. Differences appear in topics related to local events or about cultural particularities. Interactive visualizations showing clusters of trending pages in each language edition are available online https://wiki-insights.epfl.ch/wikitrends

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3366424.3383567
Author(s)
Miz, Volodymyr  
Hanna, Joëlle
Aspert, Nicolas  
Ricaud, Benjamin  
Vandergheynst, Pierre  
Date Issued

2020-04-20

Publisher

ACM

Published in
Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-7024-0/20/04

Total of pages

8

Subjects

Wikipedia

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languages

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networks

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data mining

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society

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collective behavior

Editorial or Peer reviewed

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EPFL

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LTS2  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
The Web Conference 2020

Taipei, Taiwan

April 20-24, 2020

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/270654?ln=en

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/264888
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