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  • Portrayals of history are never complete, and each description inherently exhibits a specific view- point and emphasis. In this work, we automatically identified such differences by computing time- lines and detecting temporal focal points of written history across languages on Wikipedia. In particular, we studied articles related to the history of all UN member states and compared them in 30 language editions. We developed a computational approach that allows to identify focal points quantitatively, and found that Wikipedia narratives about national histories (i) are skewed towards more recent events (recency bias) and (ii) are distributed unevenly across the continents with sig- nificant focus on the history of European countries (Eurocentric bias). Thus, our work explored how colonial ties shape popular historiography on Wikipedia. We also established that national historical timelines vary across language editions, although average interlingual consensus is rather high. We hope that this work provides a starting point for a broader computational analysis of written history on Wikipedia and elsewhere. (xsd:string)
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  • Content Analysis (de)
  • Content Analysis (en)
  • Cultural Sociology (en)
  • Geisteswissenschaften (de)
  • Geschichte (de)
  • Historical Social Research (de)
  • Historical Social Research (en)
  • History (en)
  • Humanities (en)
  • Interdisciplinary and Applied Fields of the Social Sciences (en)
  • Interdisziplinäre und angewandte Gebiete der Sozialwissenschaften (de)
  • Kultursoziologie (de)
  • Kunstsoziologie (de)
  • Literatursoziologie (de)
  • Media Contents (de)
  • Media Contents (en)
  • Social History (de)
  • Social History (en)
  • Sociology of Art (en)
  • Sociology of Knowledge (en)
  • Sociology of Literature (en)
  • Wissenssoziologie (de)
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  • Samoilenko, Anna (2017): Multilingual historical narratives on Wikipedia. GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1411 (en)
  • Samoilenko, Anna (2017): Multilingual historical narratives on Wikipedia. GESIS, Köln. Datenfile Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1411 (de)
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  • the free encyclopedia Wikipedia (xsd:string)
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  • Free access (without registration) (en)
  • Freier Zugang (ohne Registrierung) (de)
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  • 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1411 (xsd:string)
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  • Content Analysis (en)
  • Sonstige (de)
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  • 2017 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 2017-01-01 (xsd:date)
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  • 2017 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 10.7802/1411 ()
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  • 2016-01-01 (xsd:date)
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  • CC BY-NC 4.0: Namensnennung– Nicht kommerziell (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.de) (xsd:string)
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  • Multilingual historical narratives on Wikipedia (xsd:string)
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  • Lemmerich, Florian;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau;Project Member (xsd:string)
  • Samoilenko, Anna (xsd:string)
  • Samoilenko, Anna;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau;Contact Person (xsd:string)
  • Strohmaier, Markus;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau;Supervisor (xsd:string)
  • Weller, Katrin;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences;Project Member (xsd:string)
  • Zens, Maria;GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences;Project Member (xsd:string)
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  • SowiDataNet|datorium (en)
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  • Live-crawling of Wikipedia pages (en)
  • Live-crawling of Wikipedia pages (de)
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  • GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1411 (en)
  • GESIS, Köln. Datenfile Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1411 (de)
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  • 2016-01-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Samoilenko, Anna and Lemmerich, Florian, and Zens, Maria and Weller, Katrin and Strohmaier, Markus "Analysing Timelines of National Histories across Wikipedia Editions: A Comparative Computational Approach" to appear in the ICWSM'17 volume as a full paper.; (xsd:string)
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  • Digital Behavioral Data (en)
  • Digitale Verhaltensdaten (de)
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  • Main text of Wikipedia articles on history of 193 UN memberstates (and their outlinks) in 30 language editions, collected in July 2016 (xsd:string)