Cultural Differences in the Understanding of History on Wikipedia

Robin Gieck; Hanna Mari Kinnunen; Yuanyuan Li; Mohsen Moghaddam; Franziska Pradel; Peter A. Gloor; Maria Paasivaara; Matthäus P. Zylka

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42697-6_1

Cultural Differences in the Understanding of History on Wikipedia

Robin Gieck, Hanna Mari Kinnunen, Yuanyuan Li, Mohsen Moghaddam, Franziska Pradel, Peter A. Gloor, Maria Paasivaara, Matthäus P. Zylka^*

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This paper sheds light on cultural differences in the understanding of historical military events between Chinese, English, French, German, and Swedish Wikipedia language editions. Differences in understanding historical events can lead to intercultural misinterpretation and conflicts that cause negative consequences for international relations. We identified the most important historical events, mined cross-cultural relations, investigated word usage in war-related pages and performed network, complexity, and sentiment analysis. We also analyzed the usage of war-related words and the quantity of war-related events mentioned in different languages. Our findings suggest that World War I and World War II are the most important historical events within English, French, and German cultures and English Wikipedia contains more violence and war-related content, with a higher level of complexity than other language editions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Springer Proceedings in Complexity
Pages	3-12
Number of pages	10
Volume	Part F4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-42697-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42697-6_1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016
MoE publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book
Event	International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks - Rome, Italy Duration: 8 Jun 2016 → 11 Jun 2016

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Conference	International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks
Abbreviated title	COINs
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	08/06/2016 → 11/06/2016

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Cultural Differences in the Understanding of History on Wikipedia. / Gieck, Robin; Kinnunen, Hanna Mari; Li, Yuanyuan; Moghaddam, Mohsen; Pradel, Franziska; Gloor, Peter A.; Paasivaara, Maria; Zylka, Matthäus P.

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