Measurement and analysis of online social networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Co-authorship 2.0: patterns of collaboration in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Emotions and dialogue in a peer-production community: the case of Wikipedia
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Social relation extraction based on chinese wikipedia articles
CLSW'12 Proceedings of the 13th Chinese conference on Chinese Lexical Semantics
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It is arguable whether history is made by great men and women or vice versa, but undoubtably social connections shape history. Analysing Wikipedia, a global collective memory place, we aim to understand how social links are recorded across cultures. Starting with the set of biographies in the English Wikipedia we focus on the networks of links between these biographical articles on the 15 largest language Wikipedias. We detect the most central characters in these networks and point out culture-related peculiarities. Furthermore, we reveal remarkable similarities between distinct groups of language Wikipedias and highlight the shared knowledge about connections between persons across cultures.