Wikipedia: Mirror, Microcosm, and Motor of Global Linguistic Diversity

Mamadouh, Virginie

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_200

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“…On the other hand, the Russian version serves a transnational audience of Russian speakers across the world, especially from the former Soviet Union countries (not only Russians in Russia or Russian speakers in Ukraine), while the Romanian version of Wikipedia now serves principally the Romanian-language audience in both Romania and Moldova. The separate Moldavian Wikipedia in Cyrillic alphabet was closed because the Moldovan language was found to be a version of Romanian (even according to the 1989 Language Law of Moldova), and there is a software to navigate the two scripts (Mamadouh, V. 2019a). Regarding the Belarusian version, it may be supposed that it is principally serving nationally minded Belarusians all over the world, while the majority of people in Belarus prefer the Russian version as it is better understood and more developed.…”

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Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Gnatiuk

Glybovets

2021

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The paper tackles the issue of uneven geographical representations on Wikipedia, the most visible and powerful user-generated encyclopaedia. In particular, it addresses language imbalances on Wikipedia with regard to geographical information and uneven spatial patterns of territory coverage on the different language versions in an attempt to verify expectations about the cultural factors that influence these imbalances and uneven spatial patterns. Ukraine is a promising case for testing the formulated expectations, as it has a large number of neighbouring countries, and most of them had political and cultural influence on its territory in the past. The volumes (word counts) of articles about the Ukrainian cities were analysed for seven language versions of Wikipedia, including the Ukrainian version and the versions of all bordering countries. The results show that historical geography is the strongest and central factor, and most of the key relic borders (former boundaries) can be traced. Ethnic composition appears to be another important factor, although weaker than the previous one. The role of the border factor is often unclear, but in some cases it definitely makes an impact and therefore cannot be completely ignored. Thus, the geographies of Wikipedia are not indifferent to the issues of ethnicity and geopolitics. The research calls into question the ability of modern Wikipedia to be a reliable and balanced source of geographical knowledge, as the described imbalances may create lopsided and biased geographical representations in people from different countries and nations.

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Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Gnatiuk

Glybovets

2021

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Value-orientation Differentiation of Volunteers Educating of the Internet Encyclopedia “Wikipedia” and the Project “Otvety.” Part 1

Bryzgalin

Voiskounsky

Kozlovskiy

2022

RUDN J. Psychol. Pedagog.

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The development of the Internet contributes to the activity of education volunteers who disseminate a variety of information on the Web. This study is limited to virtual volunteers who share useful knowledge in cyberspace. Although the issues of volunteering are covered quite widely in psychological science, the volitional mechanisms that encourage online educational activities have been poorly studied. The leading role in the deployment of such prosocial behavior is played by a specific value-orientation system. The purpose of this research is to identify and describe the systems of values and value orientations of online educators, namely representatives of the expert core of the online encyclopedia “Wikipedia” (N = 96) and the question-answer (QA) online project “Otvety” (N = 47). The study is based on the value-specific (SVS, PVQ) methodology developed by Sh. Schwartz and adapted by V.N. Karandashev; the participants belong to the abovementioned expert core groups of online education volunteers. The results reveal their relatively homogeneous set of values, which is developing into an altruistic meta-orientation towards autonomously given and situationally different dissemination of knowledge aimed at providing information (as a public utility) and regulated by self-transcendence and openness to changes. Intersubjective (in terms of normative ideals and individual priorities) and intergroup (in terms of communities) value-related comparison of the study participants - Wikipedia authors and QA “Otvety” service experts - optionally show that the Wikipedians are more inclined to avoid saturated social relationships (being socially inert), however, are much more hedonistic about life than the QA-experts. At the same time, both groups are brought together as close as possible by the radical condemnation of any factors that interfere with social harmony and limit the freedom to manifest oneself as a person. Based on the obtained results, it can be concluded that further understanding of the personal and group characteristics of education volunteers can expand the scope of education; therefore, in subsequent studies, it is proposed to use successive psychodiagnostic methods that measure value specificity in a psychosocial context.

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Wikipedia: Mirror, Microcosm, and Motor of Global Linguistic Diversity

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Value-orientation Differentiation of Volunteers Educating of the Internet Encyclopedia “Wikipedia” and the Project “Otvety.” Part 1

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