10.5281/zenodo.4433137
https://zenodo.org/records/4433137
oai:zenodo.org:4433137
Valentim, Rodolfo
Rodolfo
Valentim
0000-0002-7702-2991
Politecnico di Torino
Comarela, Giovanni
Giovanni
Comarela
0000-0001-7612-9650
Federal University of EspĂrito Santo
Park, Souneil
Souneil
Park
Telefonica Research
Saez-Trumper, Diego
Diego
Saez-Trumper
0000-0002-7679-5423
Wikimedia Foundation
Tracking Knowledge Propagation Across Wikipedia Languages
Zenodo
2021
knowledge propagation
Wikipedia
2021-03-15
eng
10.5281/zenodo.4433136
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
We present a dataset of inter-language knowledge propagation in Wikipedia. Covering the entire 309 language editions and 33M articles, the dataset aims to track the full propagation history of Wikipedia concepts, and allow follow up research on building predictive models of them. For this purpose, we align all the Wikipedia articles in a language-agnostic manner according to the concept they cover, which results in 13M propagation instances. To the best of our knowledge, this dataset is the first to explore the full inter-language propagation at a large scale. Together with the dataset, a holistic overview of the propagation and key insights about the underlying structural factors are provided to aid future research. For example, we find that although long cascades are unusual, the propagation tends to continue further once it reaches more than four language editions. We also find that the size of language editions are associated with the speed of propagation. We believe the dataset not only contributes to the prior literature on Wikipedia growth but also enables new use cases such as edit recommendation for addressing knowledge gaps, detection of disinformation, and cultural relationship analysis.