Abstract
This article analyzes users who edit Wikipedia articles about Okinawa, Japan, in English and Japanese. It finds these users are among the most active and dedicated users in their primary languages, where they make many large, high-quality edits. However, when these users edit in their non-primary languages, they tend to make edits of a different type that are overall smaller in size and more often restricted to the narrow set of articles that exist in both languages. Design changes to motivate wider contributions from users in their non-primary languages and to encourage multilingual users to transfer more information across language divides are presented.
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Citation
Hale, S. A. (2015). Cross-language Wikipedia Editing of Okinawa, Japan. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’15, ACM.
@inproceedings{hale-chi2015,
author = {Hale, Scott A.},
title = {Cross-language {Wikipedia} Editing of {Okinawa}, {Japan}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI '15},
year = {2015},
isbn = {978-1-4503-3145-6},
location = {Seoul, South Korea},
pages = {183--192},
numpages = {10},
url = {http://www.scotthale.net/pubs/?chi2015},
doi = {10.1145/2702123.2702346},
acmid = {2702346},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {cross-language, information diffusion, information discovery, multilingual, social media, social network analysis, Wikipedia},
}
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Related publications
- Hale, S. A. (2014). Multilinguals and Wikipedia Editing. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci ’14, ACM.
- Hale, S. A. (2014). Okinawa in Japanese and English Wikipedia. In Extended Abstracts of the 2014 ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’14 EA, ACM.
