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

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06885v1
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:04:36 GMT
Title: What is Trending on Wikipedia? Capturing Trends and Language Biases Across Wikipedia Editions
Authors: Volodymyr Miz, Jo\"elle Hanna, Nicolas Aspert, Benjamin Ricaud, and Pierre Vandergheynst
Abstract summary: We propose an automatic evaluation and comparison of the browsing behavior of Wikipedia readers. 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.
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Abstract: 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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