Manypedia: Comparing language points of view of Wikipedia communities

Authors

  • Paolo Massa Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento
  • Federico Scrinzi Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i1.3939

Keywords:

Wikipedia, cross-cultural, language communities, linguistic point of view, machine translation, Web tool, open source

Abstract

The three million articles of the English Wikipedia have been written in a collaborative fashion by more than 14 million volunteer editors. In each article, a community of editors strive to reach a neutral point of view, representing all significant views fairly, proportionately, and without biases. However, beside the English one, there are more than 270 editions of Wikipedia in different languages and their relatively isolated communities of editors are not forced by the platform to discuss and negotiate their points of view. So the empirical question is: Do communities on different language Wikipedias develop their own diverse Linguistic Points of View (LPOV)? To answer this question we created and released as open source Manypedia, a Web tool whose aim is to facilitate cross–cultural analysis of Wikipedia language communities by providing an easy way to compare automatically translated versions of their different representations of the same topic.

Author Biography

Paolo Massa, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento

Researcher at Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy.

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Published

2013-01-04

How to Cite

Massa, P., & Scrinzi, F. (2013). Manypedia: Comparing language points of view of Wikipedia communities. First Monday, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i1.3939