In search of the ur-Wikipedia: Universality, similarity, and translation in the Wikipedia inter-language link network

WikiSym 2012 Conference Proceedings - 8th Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Warncke Wang, Morten ^a   Uduwage, Anuradha ^a   Dong, Zhenhua ^b   Riedl, John ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

first law of geography; multilingual; Tobler's law; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ENGLISH LANGUAGES; FIRST LAW; INFORMATION REPOSITORIES; MULTILINGUAL; PRIMARY SOURCES; TOBLER'S LAW; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WIKIPEDIA;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

WEBSITES;

EID: 84877633080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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