Multilinguals and Wikipedia editing
@inproceedings{Hale2014MultilingualsAW, title={Multilinguals and Wikipedia editing}, author={Scott A. Hale}, booktitle={WebSci '14}, year={2014} }
This article analyzes one month of edits to Wikipedia in order to examine the role of users editing multiple language editions (referred to as multilingual users). Such multilingual users may serve an important function in diffusing information across different language editions of the encyclopedia, and prior work has suggested this could reduce the level of self-focus bias in each edition. This study finds multilingual users are much more active than their single-edition (monolingual…
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