Data is data. Period? Both of the maps above visualize the 2008 US presidential election results by coloring each county with different colors: red for the Republican candidate John McCain, and blue for the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Which … Continue reading
Interlanguage links are the basic cross-language (and thus potentially cross-culture) links across different language versions of Wikipedia. They are everywhere when you read an encyclopedia article page from Wikipedia. They show up at the side bar to the left of … Continue reading
The major difference in world coverage between Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia, particuarly in terms of proportional emphasis in regions where both have web links can be shown on the map with adequate comparing measurement. Region by region, Figure 5‑7 … Continue reading
A series of additional maps also reveals that although both of them have similar patterns when it comes to which regions have more links and which have less links, Chinese Wikipedia has more links than Baidu Baike does among most … Continue reading
The results have shown that Chinese Wikipedia has more comprehensive coverage of the world whereas Baidu Baike has the sole emphasis on mainland China. First, simply based on the number of distinct geographic categories (or country codes) among the external … Continue reading