Measuring minority language presence on Wikipedia : towards the measurement of minority language presence on the World Wide Web
This study examines twenty majority language and minority language versions of Wikipedia (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Welsh, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, West Frisian, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Breton, Catalan, Galician and Sardinian). The results are used to compare the majority language versions with the minority languages that compete with them. The statistical results are gathered by a custom designed software program that analyses several content metrics (number of words, images and an analysis of the quantity and location of links) relating to each article, allowing for a more accurate measurement of the contents of a language edition of Wikipedia than is usually given by a raw count of the number of articles. While studying Wikipedia in isolation is an interesting question, there is no difficulty in understanding that the minority language editions of Wikipedia are quite small in both range of articles, as amply demonstrated by a study of Wikipedia's statistics in this regard. The goal is to put forward a potential model for estimating and quantifying minority language material on the web. Outlined in this study is a definition of 'web presence that
Deere, Andrew
Linguistic minorities ; World wide web ; Wikipedia ; Minority Language
Measuring minority language presence on Wikipedia : towards the measurement of minority language presence on the World Wide Web. This study examines twenty majority language and minority language versions of Wikipedia (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Welsh, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, West Frisian, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Breton, Catalan, Galician and Sardinian). The results are used to compare the majority language versions with the minority languages that compete with them. The statistical results are gathered by a custom designed software program that analyses several content metrics (number of words, images and an analysis of the quantity and location of links) relating to each article, allowing for a more accurate measurement of the contents of a language edition of Wikipedia than is usually given by a raw count of the number of articles. While studying Wikipedia in isolation is an interesting question, there is no difficulty in understanding that the minority language editions of Wikipedia are quite small in both range of articles, as amply demonstrated by a study of Wikipedia's statistics in this regard. The goal is to put forward a potential model for estimating and quantifying minority language material on the web. Outlined in this study is a definition of 'web presence that
measuring minority_language presence towards measurement minority_language presence world wide web study_examines twenty majority_language minority_language version english_french german spanish italian danish icelandic welsh gaelic scots gaelic manx cornish west north breton catalan use compare majority_language version minority_languages compete them statistical gather custom design software program analyse several content metric number word image_analysis quantity location link relate article allow accurate measurement content language edition usually give raw count number article study isolation interest question difficulty minority_language edition quite small range article demonstrate study statistic regard goal put_forward potential model estimate quantify minority_language material web study definition web presence