May 19, 2022

Visualizations: The World of Wikipedia's Languages Mapped

From The Guardian:

What happens if you map every geotagged Wikipedia article – and then analyse it for language use? A team of Oxford University researchers has found out.

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Mark Graham and the team at the Oxford Internet Institute (who’ve mapped zombies and every geotagged picture on Flickr) decided to find out as part of their research into the state of the internet – and then break it down by different languages.

Read the Complete Article and Access Visualizations

See Also: “Mapping Wikipedia’s Augmentations of Our Planet” by Mark Graham (Via Zero Geography)

See Also: 12 More Visualizations from the Oxford Internet Institute

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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