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WikiLinkGraphs: A Complete, Longitudinal and Multi-Language Dataset of the Wikipedia Link Networks
Cristian Consonni, David Laniado, Alberto Montresor
Wikipedia articles contain multiple links connecting a subject to other pages of the encyclopedia. In Wikipedia parlance, these links are called internal links or wikilinks. We pre…
When a Movement Becomes a Party: The 2015 Barcelona City Council Election
Pablo Aragón, Yana Volkovich, David Laniado +1
Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots movement-party, won the 2015 Barcelona City Council election. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the 15M movement in orde…
Interactions of cultures and top people of Wikipedia from ranking of 24 language editions
Young-Ho Eom, Pablo Aragón, David Laniado +3
Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge, that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim, we apply methods of Markov chains and…
Not all paths lead to Rome: Analysing the network of sister cities
Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Pablo Aragón, David Laniado +1
This work analyses the practice of sister city pairing. We investigate structural properties of the resulting city and country networks and present rankings of the most central nod…
Jointly they edit: examining the impact of community identification on political interaction in Wikipedia
Jessica G. Neff, David Laniado, Karolin Kappler +3
In their 2005 study, Adamic and Glance coined the memorable phrase "divided they blog", referring to a trend of cyberbalkanization in the political blogosphere, with liberal and co…
Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia - A cross-cultural study of links that made history
Pablo Aragón, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, David Laniado +1
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…