Generally with web links, two geographic categorization methods can be deployed. One is directly extracting their nominal country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) from the URL and another is looking up their geographical location of the IP addresses (geo-IP lookup) … Continue reading
Data selection of external links. Before further categorising and analysing the collected data set, some notes on the systematic way to gather and select what counts as valid “external links” are provided as follows. First, only the web links inside … Continue reading
To assess the geographic and linguistic features of the external links of Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia, a set of data is collected in June 2010 for both websites. The data set are in turn analysed according to their geographic … Continue reading